breast wheel

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noun

a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.

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Origin of breast wheel

First recorded in 1750–60

Words nearby breast wheel

breastplate, breastplow, breast pump, breaststroke, breastsummer, breast wheel, breastwork, breath, breathable, breathalyse, Breathalyser

How to use breast wheel in a sentence

They were racing toward the corner of Tompkins and Myrtle avenues with Johnson at the wheel when another call came over the radio.
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He tore a piece of meat off the breast and stroked her coat while she ate.
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My girlfriend, Barbara, came to visit me and exposed her breast through the window.
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“They think Putin is the only evil in Russia and dream about getting rid of him,” he said, tightening his grip on the wheel.
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Maybe the wheel will turn again, and heterosexuality will come to seem edgy.
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"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
It is something which takes side in the child's breast with the reasonable governor and the laws which he or she administers.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Alessandro walked at the horses' heads, his face sunk on his breast, his eyes fixed on the ground.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
We laid him down gently, folded his arms on his breast, and for a moment held our peace in tribute to his passing.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Never again would he sit behind that wheel rejoicing in the insolence of speed.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke