mill wheel

noun

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

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

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?
The Doctor's Red Lamp | Various
Each of them throws his mantle round another and is as swift as a millwheel.
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British Dictionary definitions for millwheel

millwheel

/ (ˈmɪlˌwiːl) /

noun

a wheel, esp a waterwheel, that drives a mill

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