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wind engine

wind engine noun: a wind-driven machine, especially a preindustrial one.

Noun

wind engine (plural wind engines)

  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
    Synonyms:
    windmill

wind engine meaning in Tamil

wind engine in Tamil

காற்றெந்திரம்

Synonyms of wind engine

Forms of wind engine

pluralwind engines
alternative formwind-engine

Questions about wind engine

What does wind engine mean?
Wind engine means a wind-driven machine, especially a preindustrial one.
What is wind engine in Tamil?
Wind engine in Tamil is காற்றெந்திரம். See Wind engine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wind engine?
Wind engine is a noun.
What is the plural of wind engine?
The plural of wind engine is wind engines.

Words near wind engine in the dictionary

  1. wind down
  2. wind dropsy
  3. wind egg
  4. wind eggs
  5. wind energy
  6. wind engine
  7. wind engines
  8. wind farm
  9. wind farmer
  10. wind farmers
  11. wind farms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wind engine (page history and authors); wind engine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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