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But is this actually a windmill? This is a turbine, a generator. A windmill does milling. It is connected to mechanical devices that do mechanical work such

• tremon 3y ago
  So what does a textile mill do? Does it grind cloth into fine dust, or does it something else? Is the sawdust produced by a sawmill its primary output product? The word mill is overloaded. In Dutch, these are two separate words: molen, a singular noun describing a machine using a rotational mechanism for powering some industrial process; and malen, a verb describing the milling of particles into flour. In this case, the article describes a mill of the first kind.
  • 48864w6ui 3y ago
    If the brits and not the yanks had taken the lead in production hw, we would still be saying "mill" instead of "ALU".
  • mauvehaus 3y ago
    One suspects there's a certain amount of grinding in Fickmühlen.