wind engine

English

Alternative forms

• wind-engine (archaic)

Noun

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, volume 4, number 16, page 492:

     Windmills or wind-engines, are used, to some extent, in the Cape Colony.

Translations

wind-driven machine

Armenian: հողմաշարժիչ (hy) (hoġmašaržičʻ) Greek: ανεμοκινητήρας m (anemokinitíras) Russian: ветродви́гатель (ru) m (vetrodvígatelʹ) Ukrainian: вітродвигу́н m (vitrodvyhún)

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