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. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates
Smock mill with fantail (Sønderho, Fanø, Denmark)
Union Mill, Cranbrook, Kent
The Old Mill on Nantucket Island
A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain. Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; the horizontal or panemone wind
Smock mill
…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. It is topped with a roof or cap…
Hooper's Mill, Margate, Kent, an eighteenth-century European horizontal windmill
A windmill in Kotka, Finland in May 1987
Windmill in the Azores islands, Portugal