wind engine

noun

wind engine

noun

1

Archaic A wind-driven machine, especially a preindustrial one.

Near-synonym: windmill
Windmills or wind-engines, are used, to some extent, in the Cape Colony.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:

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