Windmill

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  windmill
       n 1: a mill that is powered by the wind
       2: generator that extracts usable energy from winds [syn: {aerogenerator},
           {wind generator}]