overshot wheel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of overshot wheel
First recorded in 1665–75
Example Sentences
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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.
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It was run at first with a small flutter wheel, which was replaced by a an overshot wheel, 30 feet; that by another, 45 feet, and that by one 50 feet in diameter.
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The motive power is an overshot wheel, propelled by water from two large springs.
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It was run by water brought from McKusick creek, the motive power being an overshot wheel forty-five feet in diameter.
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"What of this old fellow, who has the mill?—has he consented to have the overshot wheel?"
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