[sandworm101]

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 as milling flour, rather than a generator that creates electricity.

The inside of a working windmill are more complex and beautiful than any turbine.

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[tremon]

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]

If the brits and not the yanks had taken the lead in production hw, we would still be saying "mill" instead of "ALU".

[mauvehaus]

One suspects there's a certain amount of grinding in Fickmühlen.