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- verb Present participle of
windmill .
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Examples
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Only a few dozen outfits like Mr. Crowell's still exist in the Texas Panhandle, practicing the dying art of "windmilling" - fixing the old-style whirligigs that pump water from the aquifers.
NYT > Global Home By KATE GALBRAITH 2011
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Only a few dozen outfits like Mr. Crowell's still exist in the Texas Panhandle, practicing the dying art of "windmilling" - fixing the old-style whirligigs that pump water from the aquifers.
NYT > Home Page By KATE GALBRAITH 2011
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Leave it to Mr. Obama and his administration to go for the illusive dream of meaningful energy production by capturing the wind aka windmilling, while putting a foot down on drilling for oil--an empirically documented source of energy-producing liquid.
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post Juliet Eilperin | Post Carbon 2010
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Gates Draftguard anti-rotation device prevents belt-driven air-cooled heat exchanger (ACHE) fan drives from "windmilling" when they are idle.
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Gates Draftguard anti-rotation device prevents belt-driven air-cooled heat exchanger (ACHE) fan drives from "windmilling" when they are idle.
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I am very fond of Michael Yardy but there is something unavoidably garden shed about his cricket, most notably in his grasping, grabbing bowling action, both arms windmilling at thin air like a man being thrown out of an aeroplane for his first ever sky dive.
Five-pint all-day bloatathon will never be England's cup of tea | Barney Ronay 2011
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 As the tryouts begin, Kara goes back to an old standby, cutting into the ground beneath her with windmilling arms of steel, but this time it goes a little better …
Hero History: Supergirl | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Mad, bad and dangerous to knowYoung full-back Joe Mattock was given a suspended sentence last year for windmilling like an irate cartoon character in a Leicester nightclub, an attack caught on CCTV.
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Alongside the reliable, quietly impressive Umar Gul , during the recent series Junaid Khan emerged as a canny, reliable bowler with some Asif-like qualities, while Aizaz Cheema looks lively, and the extraordinary windmilling flail of arms resembling a cartoon fight that constitutes the bowling action of Pakistan's Sohail Tanvir continues to have the occasional capacity to befuddle the best.
Pakistan Shows Resilience Amid Turmoil Richard Lord 2011
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Michael Yardy's windmilling bowling action is like a man being thrown out of a plane for his first ever sky dive.
Five-pint all-day bloatathon will never be England's cup of tea | Barney Ronay 2011
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