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Word: windmill (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
  • A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
  • A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
  • basketball A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
  • juggling The false shower.
  • The structure containing such machinery.

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Verb:

  • rfv-sense intransitive Of a rotating part of a machine, to become disengaged and rotate freely.
  • transitive To rotate with a sweeping motion.

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