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post mill

noun

  1. a windmill built round a central post on which the whole mill can be turned so that the sails catch the wind
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Grade II* listed Kibworth is the only surviving example of a post mill - an earlier design than the more familiar brick tower mill - in the East Midlands.

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