Wind-fana

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wind-fana

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wind-fana
m. A cloth for winnowing with, a fan :-- Windfona scabellum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 119, 71: i. 289, 22. His fone l windfone (fonnae l windgefonnae, Lind.) in honda his and clǽnsaþ bereflór his cujus uentilabrum in manu ejus et purgauit aream suam, Lk. Skt. Rush. 3, 17. [Cf. Ventilabrum . . . a sayle or a wynde clothe. A wyndowe clothe ventilabrum, Prompt. Par

Related words: 529, note 5. See also Cath. Angl. 419, note 3.] wind-fana

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