millwheel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I could see his mind working, stone-cold, grinding like a millwheel.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
We even mistake a measure of noise—like a continuous millwheel or a river, say—for silence, when in reality there is no such thing as perfect silence.
From The Human Chord by Algernon Blackwood
Each of them throws his mantle round another and is as swift as a millwheel.
From The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes by Charles William Eliot
Fear not, good Master Corwin, Giles Corey will not die; erelong his old tongue will wag like a millwheel.
From Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Concrete abutments secured these timbers and linked the walls of stone with the huge gates opening into the millrace that fed the water to the ponderous undershot millwheel.
From Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island by Gordon Stuart
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