Windmill

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun 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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(The) Windmill
In Fleet Street, 1635 (L. and P. Chas. I. 1635, p.384). No later mention. ...

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Windmill Alley
East out of Shoe Lane, on the north side of the Windmill Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. ...

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Windmill Court
1) East out of Pye Corner, Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-L.C.C. List, 1912)...

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Windmill Inn
On the east side of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677). See Windmill Alley. ...

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windmill J.P
expression formerly used in New South Wales for any J.P. who was ill-educated and supposed to signhi...

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Windmill Court, Old Jewry
East out of Old Jewry, in Coleman Street Ward (Strype, 1720). First mention: "The Windmill," 1522 (...

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