floodgate, sluice gate / stopcock / pointed pleasantry, dig, cutting remark

inflection of vanner:
/ inflection of vanner:

(agriculture, transitive) to winnow / (transitive) to shake about, jolt, jostle / (transitive) to scrutinise (analyse thoroughly) / (colloquial) to knacker, tire out, flush / (cooking) to stir (a sauce or soup) to avoid the formation of a skin

(transitive) to provide [a river] with sluice gates or floodgates

(intransitive) to kid, joke, crack jokes / (transitive, colloquial) to kid, tease, rib someone

Vannes

third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of vanner

plural of vanne

second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of vanner

winnowing fork