fanning

1. The act by which something is fanned.

2. The act by which something is fanned.

   Winnowing.

3. A shooting technique in which the shooter uses one hand to hold a revolver and pull the trigger, while using the other hand to cock the hammer repeatedly in a slapping-like fashion.

4. A very small fragment of tea leaf.

5. (UK, archaic, slang)A beating.

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