WINDMILL

I. noun Date: 14th century 1. a mill or machine operated by the wind usually acting on oblique vanes or sails that radiate from a horizontal shaft, the wind-driven wheel of a ~, something that resembles or suggests a ~, an imaginary wrong, evil, or opponent, II. verb Date: 1914 transitive verb to cause to move like a ~, intransitive verb to move like a ~