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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...
- 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...
- windmill. It was one of a pair after 1797, alongside a smock mill that had the tallest smock tower in the United Kingdom until its collapse in 1960....
- 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 post mill and a smock mill. The post mill is Grade I listed and the smock mill is Grade II* listed. The mills were known as Clover's Mills as they...
- 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...
- 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...
- Lower Mill is a smock mill in Woodchurch, Kent, England that was built in 1820. It was a Scheduled Ancient Monument from 1976 to 1978, and remains a Grade...