overshot wheel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of overshot wheel
First recorded in 1665–75
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When they came to the narrow bridge beside the mill, with its roughened causeway eternally shaken by the roar and wet with the spray of the overshot wheel, she trembled.
From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman
It was run by water brought from McKusick creek, the motive power being an overshot wheel forty-five feet in diameter.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
Where sufficient fall is available—at least three feet—the overshot wheel is used.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow
An old mill with its overshot wheel spanned the ravine and filled it with noisy rattle.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
The generatrix had to make 1,500 revolutions, and be set in motion by an overshot wheel.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
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