Water-wheel meaning

wôtər-wēl, -hwēl, wŏtər-
A wheel propelled by falling or running water and used to power machinery.
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A wheel with buckets attached to its rim for raising water.
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A wheel turned by water running against or falling on paddles, used as a source of power.
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A wheel with buckets on its rim, used for lifting water.
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A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.
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A wheel with buckets used to raise water.
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Noun

Singular:
water-wheel
Plural:
water-wheels

Water-wheel Sentence Examples

  • But his operations were at first greatly fettered by want of capital, until Jedediah Strutt, having satisfied himself of the value of the machines, entered with his partner, Samuel Need, into partnership with him, and enabled him in 1771 to build a second factory, on a much larger scale, at Cromford in Derbyshire, the machinery of which was turned by a water-wheel.

  • The right water wheel drives the circular saw, while the left drives the frame saw.

  • With one such water-wheel a pair of oxen can raise water any height up to 18 ft., and keep from 5 to 12 acres irrigated throughout an Egyptian summer.

  • Sonning Mill was one of the last flour mills on the river to be driven by water wheel.

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