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a propeller adjusted in pitch so that it will neither pull nor push air (if it must be shut down, the prop will be "feathered" so as not to 'windmill').
The one old-skool breakdance move that was rumoured to cause testicular gangrene on World In Action in 1983, resulting in winding up of school break champion.
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A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.
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Resembling the sails of a windmill.
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Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
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The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.
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A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
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Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
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One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.
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The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
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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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