overshot wheel

noun

a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.

First recorded in 1665–75

The old overshot-wheel, half covered with mountain ivy, caught patches of the warm sunlight filtering through the trees.

He felt sure that the old overshot-wheel was turning; that he was back again, a dusty, merry miller in the old mountain mill.

The overshot wheel belonged to a period when everything else—religion, literature, and art—was overshot.

Why are undershot wheels less efficient than the overshot wheel or turbine?

All the figures were moved by a wooden engine, which was run by sand falling on an overshot wheel.

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