| 单词 | windmill sail | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaswindmill sail   windmill sail  n. ΚΠ 1583    P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Fv  				Sometimes they [sc. ruffs] are suffered to hang ouer their shoulders, like windmil sayles fluttering in the winde. 1760    J. Smeaton in  Philos. Trans. 1759 		(Royal Soc.)	 51 138  				In trying experiments on windmill~sails, the wind itself is too uncertain to answer the purpose. 1864    C. Kingsley Let. from Biarritz in  Life 		(1879)	 II. xxi. 169  				The vulture [in the courtyard] has been..expanding concave wings as big as windmill sails. < as lemmas | 
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