wind engine

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  • wind-engine (archaic)

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wind engine (plural wind engines)

  1. a wind-driven machine: wind turbine, windmill, wind generator
    • 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.

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