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Word: windmill
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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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