mill wheel

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noun

a wheel, especially a waterwheel, for driving a mill.

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Origin of mill wheel

before 1000; Middle English myln whele,Old English mylenhwēol.See mill¹, wheel

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How to use mill wheel in a sentence

Across the fields came the sharpening of a scythe, the cry of the grasshoppers, and the sound of a mill-wheel arose near by.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Complete|Gilbert Parker
For suddenly the mill wheel has turned round with a tremendous crash, and the brave young soldier has been hurled down!
Legend of Moulin Huet|Lizzie A. Freeth
While she sleeps the soldier takes the skin and nails it fast to the mill-wheel, so that she cannot recover it.
The Science of Fairy Tales|Edwin Sidney Hartland
To the left, a fortified gate gaped on emptiness; to the right, a mill-wheel hung in the stream.
Coming Home|Edith Wharton

On and on, till their heads felt light as a child's toy balloon and the blood in their ears pounded like a mill-wheel.
The Doomsman|Van Tassel Sutphen

British Dictionary definitions for mill wheel

millwheel

/ (ˈmɪlˌwiːl) /

noun

a wheel, esp a waterwheel, that drives a mill

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