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Water chains
A series of intertwined or chained pools channeling falling water down stepped inclines; often elaborately sculpted, especially as found in Italian, sixteenth-century formal gardens.
Water tricks
Automata, water jets, or other devices designed to spray, soak, and surprise unwary garden visitor. Generally activated by hidden, usually pressure-sensitive, levers, springs, or similar triggers; popular especially during the Renaissance.
Waterfalls
May be used for artificial waterfalls only if highly naturalistic in form and context; otherwise see cascades or fountains.
Wattled fences
A fence made of interwoven rods, poles, or branches commonly used as an enclosure in the middle ages.
Windmills
A device for tapping the energy of the wind; it typically also refers to the building or structure supporting or housing the device. Characteristically, the device operates by means of a rotating shaft on which sails are mounted or placed at an angle so that the force of wind against them causes rotation, which in turn produced energy. Windmills were traditionally used chiefly in flat districts for operating a mill to grind grain, for pumping water, or for creating electricity. The older and most characteristic European form consists of a conical mill-house with a dome or cap supporting four sails. The more modern American form consists of a disk of sails mounted on a framework of girders, and is used chiefly for pumping or sawing.
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