mill wheel

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mill wheel¹

before 1000; Middle English myln whele, Old English mylenhwēol. See mill ¹, wheel

Example Sentences

Across the fields came the sharpening of a scythe, the cry of the grasshoppers, and the sound of a mill-wheel arose near by.

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For suddenly the mill wheel has turned round with a tremendous crash, and the brave young soldier has been hurled down!

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While she sleeps the soldier takes the skin and nails it fast to the mill-wheel, so that she cannot recover it.

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To the left, a fortified gate gaped on emptiness; to the right, a mill-wheel hung in the stream.

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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.

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