water wheel

noun

1. a simple water-driven turbine consisting of a wheel having vanes set axially across its rim, used to drive machinery
2. a wheel with buckets attached to its rim for raising water from a stream, pond, etc

Example Sentences

She envisioned a New England farmhouse from 1904 complete with a 14-foot high water wheel cut from hand-felled white oak.

From The Daily Beast

The water-wheel was turning and the jar of the stones set every beam and plank in the structure to trembling.

From Project Gutenberg

Once the wind came with a sudden sweep up the river and she thought she could hear the creak of Uncle Billy's water-wheel.

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There was a serpentine factory here once, but it is deserted; the water-wheel turns no longer.

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The deeper parts of the channel of the river are laid dry by means of large caissons or chain-pumps, worked by a water-wheel.

From Project Gutenberg

Then I do put the hairpins in, to make them look like a water-wheel that the chore boy does build in the brook.

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