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| 单词 | windmill sail |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswindmill sail windmill sail n. ΚΠ 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Fv Sometimes they [sc. ruffs] are suffered to hang ouer their shoulders, like windmil sayles fluttering in the winde. 1760 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 138 In trying experiments on windmill~sails, the wind itself is too uncertain to answer the purpose. 1864 C. Kingsley Let. from Biarritz in Life (1879) II. xxi. 169 The vulture [in the courtyard] has been..expanding concave wings as big as windmill sails. < as lemmas |
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