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Water wheel

noun

A wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond. Synonym: waterwheel.

A wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine. Synonym: waterwheel.

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"Water wheel" Quotes from Famous Books

... "The water wheel had fifteen or twenty spokes in it, but when it was running it looked like it was solid. I used to like to sit and watch that old wheel. The water ran over it and the more water came over, the more power the wheel ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... irrigation purposes. Much of the water ran through the canal; in places the planks were dry, in others some water ran over. The boats, being unloaded were pulled up on these planks, then slid into the water below. Wilson had a large water wheel for irrigation purposes, the first of several such wheels which we were to see this day. These wheels, twenty feet or more in height,—with slender metal buckets each holding gallons of water, fastened at intervals on either side,—were placed ...

— Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico • E. L. Kolb

Words linked to "Water wheel" : bucket, waterwheel, millwheel, wheel, water mill, pail, noria, mill wheel