Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "water-wheel".
During Elizabeth’s time some clever Dutchmen had built water-wheels there.
He often spent half a day in gazing at a market garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse turning the water-wheel.
The machine was a mere upright drill worked by the water-wheel, which was only eighteen inches across the breast.
A ponderous water-wheel, moving a linkage of iron levers, raised and lowered a straight-bladed saw of forged steel nine feet long and worth its weight in gold.