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Windmill
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.
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One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
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One who, or that which, grinds.
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A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
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Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
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A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of…
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