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Definition of Smock mill

Smock mill
Smock Smock, a. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.]

Meaning of Smock mill from wikipedia

- The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded, thatched, or shingled tower, usually with six or eight sides...
- until the 19th century when more powerful tower and smock mills replaced them. In a hollow-post mill, the post on which the body is mounted is hollowed...
- undergarment A smock mill, a windmill with a wooden tower, resembling the garment in appearance A Ghanaian smock, a shirt worn in Ghana Smock (surname), list...
- A smock-frock or smock is an outer garment traditionally worn by rural workers, especially shepherds and waggoners. Today, the word smock refers to a...
- Wolin Smock Mill (Polish: wiatrak holenderski w Wolinie) is a smock mill in the town of Wolin in the Kamień County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland...
- Holland, Netherlands. Most of the mills are part of the village of Kinderdijk in the muni****lity of Molenlanden, and one mill, De Blokker, is part of the muni****lity...
- King's Mill or Vincent's Mill, Shipley, West Sus****, England, is a smock mill built in 1879. King's Mill was built in 1879 for Friend Martin at a cost...
- Wilhelm van der Bosch, who erected a bigger smock mill based on the Dutch prototype in place of the post mill. Following the accession of Frederick William...
- windmill was one of a pair, as there was a smock mill built alongside in 1797. This mill had the tallest smock tower in the United Kingdom, until its collapse...
- the 19th century. In 1780, a hurricane destro**** the Post Mill, and in 1783 the new Smock Mill replaced it. In 1812, the Italian servant who ********inated...