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 to bring the sails into the wind. This type of windmill got its name from its resemblance to smocks worn by farmers in an earlier period.
Smock mill with fantail (Sønderho, Fanø, Denmark)
Smock mill in Amsterdam
Cobstone Windmill, Ibstone, Buckinghamshire
The Old Mill on Nantucket Island
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications. The term wind engine is also sometimes used to describe such devices.
The windmills at Kinderdijk in the village of Kinderdijk, Netherlands is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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.