Quick Definition
πτύον, ου, τό n.n. a simple wooden pitchfork
Strong's Definition
from 4429; a winnowing-fork (as scattering like spittle)
KJV Usage: fan
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -ου | πτύω
6.6 · Artifacts · Instruments Used in Agriculture and Husbandry
a winnowing shovel a fork-like shovel for throwing threshed grain into the air so that the wind may separate the chaff from the grain Where there is no receptor-language term for a winnowing shovel, one may use a descriptive phrase, for example, ‘a tool for throwing threshed grain into the air in order to let the chaff blow away.’
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πτύον, -ov, τό, freq. in class. Grk. fr. Hom. down, Attic πτέον W. 24, [(perh. fr. r. pu ‘to cleanse’; οἵ. Curtius p. 498 sq.) ], α winnowing-shovel [A.V. fan; ef. B. D. s.v. Agriculture, sub fin.; Rich, Diet. of Antiq. s. vv. ventilabrum, pala 2, vannus]: Mt. iii. 12; Lk. iii. 17.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πτύον ptyon 2x
a fan, winnowing fork, Mt. 3:12; Lk. 3:17*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** πτύον, -ου, τό,
[in Sm.: Is 30:24*;]
a winnowing shovel or fan: Mt 3:12, Lk 3:17.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πτύον, “winnowing-fan.” This word from the vocabulary of “Ὁ (Μὲ 315, Lk 317) appears in the letter of an illiterate landowner Gemellus, P Fay 1205 (c. A.D. 100) εὖ πνήσις 8 πτωχεία Tlé]po[ts] pu θρ[νακες δύωι καὶ λικμητρίδες δύωι καὶ πτύ <o>v ἕν, ‘please send me two forks and two shovels and a winnowing-fan”’ (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πτύον (ptuon) — winnowing fork. πτύον [ῠ], τό, winnowing-shovel, fan, [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—πτέον is Attic dialect accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+]