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windmill

noun

  1. a mill operated by the wind's rotation of large, oblique sails or vanes radiating from a shaft: used as a source of power for grinding grain, pumping water, generating electricity, etc.
  2. anything like a windmill, as a propellerlike toy (pinwheel) revolved by wind

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to rotate like a windmill

See windmill in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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