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Meanings of windmill in English

Spanish
molino

Chess tactic in which a combination of discovered checks and regular checks, usually by a rook and a bishop, often forcing the opposing king to move back and forth between two squares, can win massive amounts of material.

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molino

Generator that extracts usable energy from winds.

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Examples for "see-saw"
Examples for "see-saw"
1
Both clubs blew leads before the second intermission in a see-saw affair.
Reuters
2
The natural tendency otherwise is to make office-holding a sort of see-saw.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
3
Such was my first experience of this see-saw warfare of the trenches.
Bullets & Billets
4
The sonorous twang, the see-saw gestures, the odd pronunciation, were vividly depicted.
Roderick Hudson
5
It's a see-saw with all of us, Theron Ware-sometimesup; sometimes down.
The Damnation of Theron Ware

Solitaire card game.

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Usage of windmill in English
1
Recent reports suggest that VRL is looking to exit its windmill business.
Reuters
2
And there he stayed in the windmill till the battle was over.
The Junior Classics, Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism
3
I think you will be able to finish the windmill without me.
Animal Farm
4
The whole farm was deeply divided on the subject of the windmill.
Animal Farm
5
There was no house, no shed, windmill, or structure of any kind.
Man on a leash
6
Already he is within sight from the upper windows of the windmill.
The House of Walderne / A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in...
7
To one side a water trough stood next to a charred windmill.
The Name of the Wind
8
It showed a light-haired, smiling young woman waving, a windmill behind her.
Boy’s Life
9
In Hohen-Cremmen we have even to this day only a German windmill.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
10
They sped over the prairie and flew past an old Dutch windmill.
The Colossus: A Novel
11
He was driving a reaping machine, to which the windmill-like arms belonged.
Hodge and His Masters
12
There is also an extant permission for a windmill in Inis Oirr.
The Irish Times
13
Next make an arm of a two-arm windmill such as boys make.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
14
He was sometimes compared to a spider, and sometimes to a windmill.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
15
This is also used as a windmill, being affixed to a spindle.
My Tropic Isle
16
Now we want this; hill, because we want to build a windmill....'
Selected Polish Tales
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Translations for windmill
Spanish
molino
Windmill through the time
Windmill across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common