windmilling

Verb

windmill (third-person singular simple present windmills, present participle windmilling, simple past and past participle windmilled)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To rotate with a sweeping motion.
   • She ran down the hill, windmilling her arms with glee.
2. (intransitive) To (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
   • The axle broke and the wheel windmilled in place briefly before careening through the wall.
   1. (intransitive) To be rotated by the force of the fluid passing through (the propeller or turbine rotor).
      • The stern dropped just as the captain began to get his control room crew to react to orders again. His head struck an instrument console. What slim hopes his crew had died with him. The Politovskiy was falling backwards, her propeller windmilling the wrong way as she slid to the bottom of the sea.1984, Tom Clancy, “The Eighth Day: Friday, 10 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 195
3. (intransitive, slang) To move in order to rotate the penis in a circle (similar to the rotation of a windmill).

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