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Meanings of tread-wheel in English

A mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps.

        Usage of tread-wheel in English
        1
        Transportation, the tread-wheel, or a public whipping, would perhaps be sufficient.
        Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Cr...
        2
        He proposed that the tread-wheel should measure the progress of the culprit, and that every revolution should bring him nearer to liberty.
        The History of Tasmania , Volume II
        3
        The tread-wheel had been the mode in his time; so by the time he had made three thousand turns he was rather exhausted.
        It Is Never Too Late to Mend
        4
        The building was open to the roof, and the first thing to be seen in it was that tread-wheel of which Elzevir had spoken.
        Moonfleet
        5
        "The horse on the tread-wheel can look through a crack, and see a flower growing outside."
        Old Ebenezer