Most, if not all windmills that stand on a dyke are water pumping windmills using either a scooping wheel or an infinite screw. They are still used today to keep the polders dry. They may even be part of a system with several dykes where the water is pumped to the next dyke and so on, until the water is high enough to be used or disposed off in the sea.

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