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wind-charger
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a generator driven by a windmill, the electricity generated being used to charge storage batteries; also, the windmill itself.
Quotations
1946
. . . we could hear the wind tearing past, and the high screaming whine as it met the wires of the radio masts and wind-charger.
1949
Everywhere is to be seen the wind-charger, which generates the farmer's electricity by the wind.
1963
[Caption] The current issue . . . depicts . . . a typical "dugout" and wind-charger of the prairie region, and a modern harvesting scene in the wheat belt.