millwheel

British  

/ ˈmɪlˌwiːl /

noun

1. a wheel, esp a waterwheel, that drives a mill

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Example Sentences

I could see his mind working, stone-cold, grinding like a millwheel.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

The river, whose one useful function was the turning of Mr. Quinn's millwheel, wound away afterwards through marshy fields and groves of willow-trees into the great lake.

From Hyacinth by Birmingham, George A.

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 Eliot, Charles William

It was a rambling structure, the great, splashing millwheel at the far end, the long warehouse in the middle, and the dwelling attached to the other end.

From Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret by Emerson, Alice B.

I would have loved to see the millwheel turn again, as it did in the old days.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend