- a variation of waterwheel.
water wheel
Britishnoun
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a simple water-driven turbine consisting of a wheel having vanes set axially across its rim, used to drive machinery
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a wheel with buckets attached to its rim for raising water from a stream, pond, etc
Example Sentences
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As the tide ebbs the water is released through a sluice, which pushes a water wheel, which turns the grinding stones.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
The magnetic compass, gunpowder, the printing press, the chronometer, the cotton gin, the steam engine and the water wheel are among the many examples.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2020
Inventors then developed a power loom that tapped the energy from a water wheel or steam engine to weave much faster than a handworker.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
An 1880s image of a stream with a water wheel to one side and a picturesque bridge in the distance by J.W.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2017
And here we are, at the center of the arc, trapped in the gaudiest, most valuable, and most improbable water wheel the world has ever seen.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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