Windmill - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Windmill :  (noun)
1: a mill that is powered by the wind
2: generator that extracts usable energy from winds [syn: aerogenerator, wind generator]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Windmill : \Wind"mill`\, n. 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. --Chaucer.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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