"windbill" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "windbills",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "windbill (plural windbills)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1822, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate:",
          "text": "He would have got a bank-credit, manoeuvred with windbills, dashed out upon a large scale, and soon have seen his crop and stock sequestered by the Sheriff'; but in those days a man could not ruin himself so easily.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1854, Thomas Dick, LL.D., An Essay on the Sin and Evils of Covetousness:",
          "text": "How frequently do we find persons establishing an extensive business on credit when they have no funds of their own; using windbills and sometimes forgeries; furnishing elegant houses with money which is not their own; living in luxury and splendour; dashing along in gigs and landaus; ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Norman Macpherson, Sir John Rankine, The Scots Revised Reports: Court of Session, Third Series, page 981:",
          "text": "But then culpa tenet suos auctores, and that would bring the case to this question, had the master authority from the owner to grant this windbill of lading?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A signed agreement to act as guarantor for another's debt."
      ],
      "id": "en-windbill-en-noun-pNvjUFIO",
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "signed",
          "signed"
        ],
        [
          "agreement",
          "agreement"
        ],
        [
          "guarantor",
          "guarantor"
        ],
        [
          "debt",
          "debt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance, slang) A signed agreement to act as guarantor for another's debt."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "windbill"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "windbills",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "windbill (plural windbills)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Finance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1822, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate:",
          "text": "He would have got a bank-credit, manoeuvred with windbills, dashed out upon a large scale, and soon have seen his crop and stock sequestered by the Sheriff'; but in those days a man could not ruin himself so easily.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1854, Thomas Dick, LL.D., An Essay on the Sin and Evils of Covetousness:",
          "text": "How frequently do we find persons establishing an extensive business on credit when they have no funds of their own; using windbills and sometimes forgeries; furnishing elegant houses with money which is not their own; living in luxury and splendour; dashing along in gigs and landaus; ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Norman Macpherson, Sir John Rankine, The Scots Revised Reports: Court of Session, Third Series, page 981:",
          "text": "But then culpa tenet suos auctores, and that would bring the case to this question, had the master authority from the owner to grant this windbill of lading?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A signed agreement to act as guarantor for another's debt."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "signed",
          "signed"
        ],
        [
          "agreement",
          "agreement"
        ],
        [
          "guarantor",
          "guarantor"
        ],
        [
          "debt",
          "debt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance, slang) A signed agreement to act as guarantor for another's debt."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "windbill"
}