Synonyms:
windmill
Meaning: a mill that is powered by the wind
Usage examples
Kepler tried to establish some propelling force emanating from the sun, like the spokes of a windmill.
To make use of the wind for sailing a boat, only the simplest arrangements are needed; a windmill fixed at one place requires more ingenuity and machinery.
Such as the windmill is for wind and the turbine water-wheel for water was the screw propeller, although adapted, not as a generator, but as an application of power. Having made the work and stress continuous, the next thing to be accomplished was to effect a similar reform in the engines supplying the power.