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1 ventilabrum
ventĭlābrum, i, n. [ventilo], an implement for winnowing grain, a winnowing-fork, Col. 2, 10, 14; Prud. Apoth. praef. 2, 53; Vulg. Matt. 3, 12; Ambros. in Psa. 118, Serm. 3, n. 15.
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