WATERWHEEL


Meaning of WATERWHEEL in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Five pairs of nineteenth-century fulling stocks are preserved here, as well as the eighteen-foot breastshot waterwheel and a rotative beam engine.

Hayle Mill was originally powered by a waterwheel .

Loud squeaks bounced off the rafters above the corridor sounding like an old waterwheel .

New waterwheels were finished, as were new pumps and exhaust blowers for the acid towers.

The mill itself dates from early in the nineteenth century, and its waterwheel remains insitu.

The other still has insitu the wooden undershot waterwheel installed to drive its grinding machinery.

They were constructing a waterwheel and testing the maximum load that it could lift.

Three waterwheels drove the machinery here.

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