WINDMILL

PRONUNCIATION: (WIND-mil)

MEANING: noun: 1. A machine powered by wind.
2. An imagined enemy, opponent, or threat.
verb tr., intr.: To move or to cause to move like a windmill.

ETYMOLOGY: From wind, from Old English wind + mill, from Old English mylen, from Latin mola (grindstone, mill), from molere (to grind). Earliest documented use: 1230.]
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WANDMILL - facility for making shoddy magic tools in large numbers

WINDMALL - a place sailors wish existed so they could purchase a way to deal with the doldrums

WINDMILE - how they measure the distance between here and Oz