Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See windmill, 1.

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Examples

  • Hunchback up to the roof; and, letting him down by his hands and feet through the wind-shaft [FN#500] into the Reeve's house, propped him up against the wall and went their ways.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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