wind-mills

Do his medievalesque civilizations have wind-mills or water-mills?

The Worlds of D&D: Greyhawk Adam Whitehead 2009

It is actually old technology although not as old as wind-mills which are ancient.

Oil Shale, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

That's what our wind-mills used to be for, to drive the pumps to pump out the polders.

Archive 2006-07-01 2006

That's what our wind-mills used to be for, to drive the pumps to pump out the polders.

polder 2006

The third study focuses on the use of microcomputers for financial planning in agricultural ministries while the fourth examines use of microcomputers in the analysis of wind data and in the modelling of wind-mills for developing countries by Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA).

Chapter 6 1984

Eight wind-mills have been erected for the purpose of grinding corn; and a water-mill, which had been erected at Parramatta, has, most unfortunately, been destroyed by a flood, which came on some time previous to my leaving the colony.

The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) David Dickinson Mann

Then we were handed over to a friendly sergeant, who believed in more gentlemanly methods, and at Locre we had great rides -- though Pollers, who was gently unhorsed, is still firmly convinced that wind-mills form the finest deterrent to cavalry.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

Cambridgeshire in its general appearance, being flat, well cultivated, unenclosed, and abounding in wind-mills.

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard

This country is full of breweries, broken down wind-mills and hop yards.

"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

Although Don Quixote, who, according to the veracious Cervantes, set out with his unaided strong right arm to upset things, including wind-mills and obnoxious dynasties, has long been looked upon as the world's best specimen of a "fanatic," he would ordinarily be set down as a very Solomon beside the man who would undertake single-handed to overthrow such an institution as American slavery used to be.

The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights