An apparatus (consisting formerly of a sheet of canvas stretched on a frame, now usually of an arrangement of boards) attached to each of the arms…
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| 释义 | society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > windmill > sail (24) sailc1440 An apparatus (consisting formerly of a sheet of canvas stretched on a frame, now usually of an arrangement of boards) attached to each of the arms… wing1484 An appliance or appendage resembling or analogous to a wing in form or function. One of the floats of a waterwheel or sails of a windmill. ventaila1529 Something acting as a sail or fan. Obsolete. vane1581 A sail of a windmill. sweep1702 A sail of a windmill. Also occasionally a paddle of a waterwheel. arm1724 Any of the sails or (now sometimes) blades of a windmill. Usually in plural. Cf. windmill arms n. at windmill, n. compounds 1b. windsail1725 A sail of a windmill. wind-vane1725 (a) the sail of a windmill (= vane, n. 3a); (b) a weathercock (= vane, n. 1). swift1763 The sail of a windmill. dialect. wan1767 The sail of a windmill: = van, n.1 5. flyer1790 Applied to mechanical contrivances that have a quick revolution. A sail of a windmill; also plural ‘the fan-wheel on the vane of a windmill cap which… van1837 A sail of a windmill; = fan, n.1 6c (Cf. vane, n. 3a.) Subcategories:— type of (4) — part supporting or associated with (8) |
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