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waterwheel

or wa·ter wheel

[waw-ter-hweel, -weel, wot-er-]

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noun

a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.

a wheel with buckets for raising or drawing water, as a noria.

the paddle wheel of a steamboat.

Origin of waterwheel

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at water, wheel

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for waterwheel

Historical Examples of waterwheel

Ceramic pipes were made to carry water from the spring to a waterwheel.
Space Prison
Tom Godwin
My chief purpose in going to Java was to get a Javanese waterwheel.
In Africa
John T. McCutcheon
This waterwheel is designed to be placed in a flowing stream.
Manual Training Toys for the Boy's Workshop
Harris W. Moore
He recommended, incidentally, that a Boulton and Watt steam engine be used to pump water to supply the waterwheel.
Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt
Eugene S. Ferguson
The source of power, hidden by the curious “log cabin” at the right, was probably a waterwheel.
Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later
Robert P. Multhauf