water power
noun
the power of water used, or capable of being used, to drive machinery, turbines, etc.
waterpower
-
a variation of
water power.
Example Sentences
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Using waterpower to drive its machines, the company concentrated carding, spinning, and weaving in a single structure in Waltham, Massachusetts.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
A few slave-operated cotton mills appeared at Upper South waterpower sites, and Richmond’s Tredegar Iron Works produced weapons, rails, and locomotives with 900 free and enslaved workers.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
This northern English town had ready access to waterpower.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
And a Buffalo lawyer, Millard F. Bowen, offered to form a public service corporation to dredge and operate the New York canal free of charge in return for certain waterpower rights.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course, as you realize, the great future of all this country is not along the lines even of such great industries as lumber manufacture, but in agriculture and in waterpower engineering.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
