Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wheel moved by the wind and used as a source of power, as in the windmill, wind-pump, etc.
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Examples
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For a moment it looked as if it could not possibly clear the opposite cliff, and then that it could not possibly clear the wind-wheel that rotated beyond.
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Round and round it went, the huge wind-wheel, and the little boy's head reeled with watching it.
The Paper Windmill 1996
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Machinery connects it with the driving-wheel by means of a rotary shaft, and the wind-wheel becomes an additional help.
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It is not so very long since wind and water were the only motor powers, but those days are so clearly superseded that it is quite a surprising suggestion that a wind-wheel be attached to bicycles.
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For a moment it looked as if it could not possibly clear the opposite cliff, and then that it could not possibly clear the wind-wheel that rotated beyond.
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All messages arriving there for transmission to San Diego and Mare Island could be readily intercepted by the wireless apparatus attached inconspicuously to the huge wind-wheel on an orange plantation between Pasadena and Los
Banzai! by Parabellum Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff 1903
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Round and round it went, the huge wind-wheel, and the little boy's head reeled with watching it.
Men, Women and Ghosts Amy Lowell 1899
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Here is a Kaze-Kuruma, or wind-wheel -- a wooden whistle with a paper wheel mounted before the orifice by which the breath is expelled, so that the wheel turns furiously when the whistle is blown -- three rin.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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For mechanical purposes, what is wind, or water, or the force of steam worth, until the ingenuity of man comes in, and places the wind-wheel, the water-wheel, or the piston _between_ these mighty agents and the work he wishes them to perform?
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Ira Mayhew 1854
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Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney
Quotations from Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys 1668
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