A wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine.
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Examples for "waterwheel"
Examples for "waterwheel"
1The whole was moved by an overshot waterwheel placed at the Bellevue dock.
2The waterwheel was a technological advance replacing human labor whereby the cloth was fulled.
3It brushed past the miller as he set his waterwheel turning for the day.
4The Source is the river; the Aes Sedai, the waterwheel.
5Robert was closer, a waterwheel of power, running deep and fast and utterly self-absorbed.
1Think of it as a leaky aqueduct leading to a water wheel.
2In 1856 he commenced the manufacture of the French turbine water wheel.
3One water wheel worked the vast number of parts on the machines.
4There were trees along the stream and a mill with a water wheel.
5He can only talk about the water wheel to-day and the boilers to-morrow.
6What could be more natural than to start the water wheel in motion?
7There was some kind of water wheel whirling down there.
8Some of the older children were doing something to the water wheel-he couldn't tell what.
9Another form of water wheel is shown in Fig.
10Every turn of the water wheel, he thought, made more money than his day's wages.
11He could barely discern the towering bulk of the water wheel and roofs of the sheds.
12The power was furnished by the great undershot water wheel.]
13For not a great way down the stream were an old water wheel and a dam.
14The old water wheel was still there.
15Only the water wheel would be left.
16This "new turbine" soon gained for itself a reputation enjoyed by no other water wheel.
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