noun. A machine that runs on the energy generated by a wheel of adjustable blades or slats rotated by the wind.

noun. Something, such as a toy pinwheel, that is similar to a windmill in appearance or operation.

intransitive & transitive verb. To move or cause to move like the wheel of a windmill; rotate sweepingly.

idiom. (tilt at windmills) To confront and engage in conflict with an imagined opponent or threat.

noun. A mill or machine for grinding, pumping, or other purposes, moved by the wind; a wind-motor; any form of motor for utilizing the pressure of the wind as a motive power.

noun. A visionary scheme; a vain project; a fancy; a chimera.

noun. A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.

noun. A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.

noun. The structure containing such machinery.

noun. A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.

noun. A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.

noun. A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.

noun. The false shower.

verb. To rotate (itself) with a sweeping motion.

verb. Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely.

noun. generator that extracts usable energy from winds

noun. a mill that is powered by the wind

"Before he was six years old, he was once discovered at the top of his father's barn, fixing up what he called a windmill of his own construction, and at another time, while he was about the same age, he attended some men fixing a pump, and observing them cut off a piece of a bored part, he procured it, and actually made a pump, with which he raised water."

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