Windmill

(noun.) generator that extracts usable energy from winds.

(noun.) a mill that is powered by the wind.

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• Small elevated tanks, like those of the windmill, frequently have heavy iron bands around their lower portion as a protection against the extra strain. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In 1784, Mr. Bramah obtained a patent for a propeller similar in its forms to the vanes of a windmill, which by acting obliquely on the water as it revolved, pushed the boat forward. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Omitting the laboratory structures, it had only about seven houses, the best looking of which Edison lived in, a place that had a windmill pumping water into a reservoir. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• As the wheel rotates, its motion is communicated to a mechanical device which makes use of it to raise and lower a plunger, and hence as long as the wind turns the windmill, water is raised. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• These are the only means possible; even the windmill does not eliminate the necessity for the pump, but merely replaces the energy used by man in working it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Shortly after securing his first swarm of bees he commenced the manufacture of beehives in the same room where he had his jewelry business, using a large windmill for power. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• One sees dotted over the country windmills large and small, and in Holland, the country of windmills, the landowner who does not possess a windmill is poor indeed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Look in the fire, as I like to hear you tell how you used to do when you lived in that dreary old house that had once been a windmill. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I think my flesh would be pretty tolerable strong, in such a case, said Phineas, stretching out a pair of arms like the sails of a windmill. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The invention of the windmill was a great boon to country folks because it eliminated from their always busy life one task in which labor and time were consumed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The windmill pumps water into the tank. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• When once built, a windmill practically takes care of itself, except for oiling, and is an efficient and cheap domestic possession. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The windmill pumps water into the troughs where cattle drink. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If we have no concern or interest, the waving of the arms is as meaningless to us as the gyrations of the arms of a windmill. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The toy pin wheel is a miniature windmill. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The Dutch also had substituted cylinders armed with blades in place of stampers and used their windmills to run them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• One sees dotted over the country windmills large and small, and in Holland, the country of windmills, the landowner who does not possess a windmill is poor indeed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In windmills, the sails are of wood or steel, instead of paper, but the principle is identical. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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