danaide

Noun

(plural danaides)

(engineering) A water wheel having a vertical axis and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

Origin

From the mythical Danaides, who were condemned to fill with water a vessel full of holes.

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