wind-impelled

Updated: May 10, 2025

If you climbed this ladder you found yourself in a room smothered with flour-dust, and your ears were almost deafened by the sound of the machinery overhead which the wind-impelled mill-wheel kept in motion, while the descending stream of ground flour travelled unceasingly down from the grinding-wheel to the bin below. There was a ladder from this room to the one above where the machinery was.

C. Kernahan - Tom, Dot and Talking Mouse and Other Bedtime Stories