mill wheel

noun

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

Nearby words

mill construction, mill end, mill on the floss, the, mill scale, mill valley, mill wheel, mill, james, mill, john, mill, john stuart, mill-rind, mill-run

Origin of mill wheel

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

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Examples from the Web for millwheel

How could I speak when my brain was whirling like a millwheel, and my voice choked in my throat?
The Doctor's Red Lamp|Various
Moss and grass on a millwheel in the Midi are no surer signs of abandonment and disuse than a dry millrace.
Riviera Towns|Herbert Adams Gibbons
Each of them throws his mantle round another and is as swift as a millwheel.
The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga|Various
Everything is going round and round in my head like a millwheel.
A Woodland Queen, Complete|Andre Theuriet

But people you talk with every day have got to have feeders for their minds, as much as the stream that turns a millwheel has.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

British Dictionary definitions for millwheel

millwheel

/ (ˈmɪlˌwiːl) /

noun

a wheel, esp a waterwheel, that drives a mill

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