Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A machine for winnowing corn.

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Examples

  • "In the dug-out," [9] said Ralph; "found her floating among the bushes, ax'd me out a flopper [10] with my tom-axe in no time, jumped in, thought of anngelliferous madam, and came down the falls like a cob in a corn-van -- ar'n't I the leaping trout of the waters?

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

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