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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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Long windows opened out on to a lawn stretching down to the watercourse which fed the millwheel.
Hyacinth|George A. Birmingham
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
Everything is going round and round in my head like a millwheel.
A Woodland Queen, Complete|Andre Theuriet
How could I speak when my brain was whirling like a millwheel, and my voice choked in my throat?
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Each of them throws his mantle round another and is as swift as a millwheel.
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British Dictionary definitions for mill wheel

millwheel

/ (ˈmɪlˌwiːl) /

noun

a wheel, esp a waterwheel, that drives a mill

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