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waterwheel
[ waw-ter-hweel, -weel, wot-er- ]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of waterwheel1
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Example Sentences
She included a waterwheel as a backup power source, because in Mobile, she explains, “you can never tell with the weather.”
Ceramic pipes were made to carry water from the spring to a waterwheel.
They are as swift as a waterwheel, each of them past another, one of them to the King's room, the other to the fire.
The whole was moved by an overshot waterwheel placed at the Bellevue dock.
The little buckets on the waterwheel keep an almost endless stream flowing into the irrigation ditch.
The next morning the girl heard the noise of the waterwheel, and she opened the lattice and looked out of the window.
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