water power
noun
the power of water used, or capable of being used, to drive machinery, turbines, etc.
waterpower
-
a variation of
water power.
Example Sentences
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A few slave-operated cotton mills appeared at Upper South waterpower sites, and Richmond’s Tredegar Iron Works produced weapons, rails, and locomotives with 900 free and enslaved workers.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
This northern English town had ready access to waterpower.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
This machine used the waterpower from rapid streams to drive spinning wheels.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The Significance: possible use of Rocky Mountain waterpower current in the Mississippi Valley, of Niagara's power in Manhattan, of Muscle Shoals by the southern hinterland; power for farmers; de-centralization of industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the timber and waterpower of Deep Spring Valley had been taken up for the company under the general and local preemption and mining laws.
From California Sketches, Second Series by O. P. Fitzgerald
