windmill
1. wind.mill \'win(d)-.mil\ n [fr. the episode in Don Quixote by Cervantes
in which the hero attacks wi] 1a: a mill operated by the wind usu. acting
on oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft; esp : a
wind-driven water pump 1b: the wind-driven wheel of a windmill 2:
something that resembles or suggests a windmill : as 2a: PINWHEEL slang
2b: HELICOPTER ndmills under the illusion that they are giants 3: an
imaginary wrong, evil, or opponent - used in the phrase to tilt at
windmills
2. windmill vt : to cause to move like a windmill to move like a windmill