wind engine

English

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  • wind-engine (archaic)

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wind engine (plural wind engines)

  2. (archaic) A wind-driven machine, especially a preindustrial one.
    Coordinate terms: wind turbine, wind generator (usually not construed as hyponymous)
    Near-synonym: windmill
    • 1901 October 11, Colonel F. V. Corbett, “Report on Irrigation in Natal”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎[1], volume 4, number 16, page 492:
      Windmills or wind-engines, are used, to some extent, in the Cape Colony.

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