Sentence examples for post mill from inspiring English sources
noun
A form of windmill constructed so that the whole building rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground. It is capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies.
Vine's Mill, a post mill, only took that name in 1818.
Built in the 1970s, the Flowerdew Hundred post mill was modeled on windmills that existed centuries earlier.
In his post, Mill suggests the best way to measure the impact of the government's work on HTTPS is to look at web traffic — if most visitors to government websites enjoy a secure connection, then an abandoned subdomain shouldn't make much difference.
This money had been allocated to allow the moving of a derelict post mill buck to Thelnetham.
It was a fan-tailed post mill, larger than Vine's Mill and of a more modern design although one historian stated that it existed in 1780.
De Akkermolen was built as an open trestle post mill, meaning that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on an uncovered single vertical post or trestle, around which it can be rotated to bring the sails into the wind.
Top is the post milling and bottom is the pre-milling API.
Helena Binder and Jim Zien are to be married in Post Mills, Vt., Sunday.
The island's windmills were actually "post mills" – which means the entire structure rotates around a central post to catch the wind.
For their final trip, on July 8 , 1984 they chose a rural spot - the Post Mills airport in Vermont, a tiny farm field just across the Connecticut River from New Hampshire.
Figure 2 PXRD DCU before milling (bottom) and post milling (top).
