expression formerly used in New South Wales for any J.P. who was ill-educated and supposed to signhis name with a cross x.
·noun A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
In Fleet Street, 1635 (L. and P. Chas. I. 1635, p.384). No later mention. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
East out of Shoe Lane, on the north side of the Windmill Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. ...
1) East out of Pye Corner, Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-L.C.C. List, 1912)...
On the east side of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677). See Windmill Alley. ...
East out of Old Jewry, in Coleman Street Ward (Strype, 1720). First mention: "The Windmill," 1522 (...