Fay
Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html
- To winnow corn, gen. by hand or with the aid ot the natural wind; sometimes with up. n.Cy. Bailey (1721); Grose (1790); (K.); N.Cy.2, n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 e.Yks. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1788); We're gannin ti fey cooan, Nicholson Flk-Sp. (1889) 61; e.Yks.1, m.Yks.1, e.An.2 Nrf., Suf. Morton Cyclo. Agric. (1863). e.Suf. Rare (F.H.). Hence (1) Fay-corn, sb. dross-corn; (2) Faying, vbl. sb. the act of winnowing; (3) Feying-cloth, sb. a cloth used in winnowing; (4) Feying-machine, sb. a winnowing-machine. (1) Suf. (Hall.) (2) e.Yks. In feyinge blow away with the winde, Best Rur. Econ. (1641) 53. Lin. Thompson Hist. Boston (1856) 705; Brooke Tracts Gl.; Lin.1 Nrf. To go a-fyin might mean to run wheat through the dressing machine, Cozens-Hardy Broad Nrf. (1893) 3. (3) e.Yks. An old coverlette or blankette, and a feying cloth for to lye upon them, Best Rur. Econ. (1641)
- Lan.1 (4) e.Yks. Fills a awd ken wi... a krewk off a feyin-machine, Nicholson Flk-Sp. (1889) 45.
