What is "water wheels"

Usage examples of "water wheels".

Kilthan agreed, gazing out at the blast furnaces and water wheels.

This creek is lined with over twenty water wheels in mills of various types over the next few miles, as the water supply is good and steady here.

After it gushes from the fountain in the temple precinct, the water is lifted by shadoof, water wheels, to the gardens of the palace, or sent by canals to every quarter of the city.

One of the five hells was said to have enormous water wheels in which lazy men had to tread forever, emptying buckets of boiling water onto themselves.

She smiled at Bistami when they were introduced, and later smiled at the farm, and the water wheels, and the orange groves.

We'd backed into a wall that was almost beneath one of the great rising water wheels, and the spray that closed around us was blinding, and the noise of wheel and water blocked out almost everything else.

The water wheels that had driven Bracebridge's first aether engines up on Rainharrow had long been still.