n. a generator driven by a windmill, the electricity generated being used to charge storage batteries; also, the windmill itself.
- 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.