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watermill
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Wikipedia
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A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses moving water as its power source . It is thus a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding) , rolling , or hammering . Such processes are needed ...
Wiktionary
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n. A mill (for whatever purpose) powered by water
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It contains not only a Rope Museum and Blacksmith's Shop but a working watermill too. ▪ It stands on the site of a watermill recorded in Domesday Book as belonging to the Manor of Walthamstow. ▪ Mill at work: The only working ...
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Population (2000): 1724 Housing Units (2000): 1461 Land area (2000): 10.994455 sq. miles (28.475506 sq. km) Water area (2000): 1.506556 sq. miles (3.901963 sq. km) Total area (2000): 12.501011 sq. miles (32.377469 sq. km) FIPS code: 78575 Located within: ...
Usage examples of watermill.
From here it was just possible to see over gentle slopes to the watermills along the Berufal, and the barges on the Beruth.
The next stack was water power: watermills, ponds of stocked fish, herring runs, bridges to be protected or destroyed as enemies advanced, dams that could flood lowlands, anticipated rainfall, and so on.
Plus the horses, milch cows, and draft oxen they needed, with corrals on the pastures downwind toward the river, and the watermill, the workshops, the warehouses.
There were a half dozen low bungalow-style adobe buildings with wood-pillared porches, a barn, footpaths, a wooden water race turning a couple of small watermills, corrals and truck gardens….