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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
waterwheel
noun
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▪ Five pairs of nineteenth-century fulling stocks are preserved here, as well as the eighteen-foot breastshot waterwheel and a rotative beam engine.
▪ Hayle Mill was originally powered by a waterwheel.
▪ Loud squeaks bounced off the rafters above the corridor sounding like an old waterwheel.
▪ New waterwheels were finished, as were new pumps and exhaust blowers for the acid towers.
▪ The mill itself dates from early in the nineteenth century, and its waterwheel remains insitu.
▪ The other still has insitu the wooden undershot waterwheel installed to drive its grinding machinery.
▪ They were constructing a waterwheel and testing the maximum load that it could lift.
▪ Three waterwheels drove the machinery here.
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waterwheel

n. (alternative spelling of water wheel English)

WordNet
waterwheel
  1. n. a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond [syn: water wheel]

  2. a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine [syn: water wheel]

Wikipedia
Waterwheel (disambiguation)

A Water wheel is a machine for converting falling or flowing water into useful power.

Water wheel or Waterwheel may also refer to:

  • Paddle steamer, or Paddle wheel ship, a ship driven by a paddle wheel or wheels in the water
  • Noria, a machine for lifting water into an aqueduct
  • Watermill, a factory or industrial process driven by water power
  • Aldrovanda vesiculosa, a plant known as Waterwheel plant
  • Waterwheel (website), a performance platform created by Suzon Fuks
  • Waterwheel A musical composition by Ralph_Towner
Waterwheel (website)

Waterwheel is an "interactive and collaborative platform", capable of being used as a medium for sharing media and ideas, performances and presentations. It allows users to upload and engage with media, and provides a platform through which the media can be utilised and expanded on in a live performance. Waterwheel was instigated by Suzon Fuks.

Waterwheel is a free Thematic digital performance platform that sends out an invitation to everyone, “performers and artists, scientists and environmentalists, students and academics”, anyone who is capable of accessing their facilities to, in their own words, “test the water”.

There have been symposiums held to discuss the matters Waterwheel stand for.

Usage examples of "waterwheel".

I carry a log inside the millhouse and place it against the saw, which is held in place vertically by a strong wooden frame that Bando and I made after he visited a waterwheel sawmill on the other side of the Hudson.

I tied Gairloch to the post by the millrace, then walked down toward the mill, glancing at the water as it churned in the narrow stone trough toward the undershot waterwheel.

Only the murmur of water, the scurrying of rats and the occasional rattle of distant machinery, waterwheels, pumps, and sluice gates echoed through the tunnels.

And Stark saw the outlines of old cultivation abandoned to the sand and wrecks of old waterwheels beside dry holes.

When he had achieved a small measure of calm, he called up the image of the waterwheel, willing it into ex istence so that it turned in a great smoky circle over the ghostly valley.

Harriet agreed, "but Earth certainly had gunpowder before it got beyond waterwheels and windmills, and the Church occasionally-very occasionally-grants dispensations through a system of special Conclaves.

Harriet agreed, "but Earth certainly had gunpowder before it got beyond waterwheels and windmills, and the Church occasionally—very occasionally—grants dispensations through a system of special Conclaves.

Among hradani, waterwheels were used only to drive the grinding stones of grist mills, but these people obviously used water to power a whole host of other tools, as well, and Bahzell watched in fascination as they passed an open-sided structure where a water-driven saw as tall as many men slabbed enormous tree trunks neatly into planks and timbers.

It was a radial type similar in construction and action to the old picturesque waterwheels used to power flour and sawmills.

Shortly before dawn an odd droning rasping sound was heard in the distance, which Aillas recognized and identified: the voice of the sawmill, where heavy steel blades ten feet in length were driven up and down in reciprocating motion by the power of a waterwheel, to cut planks from pine and cedar logs carted down from the high Teach tac Teach by timber-cutters.

It seems that Urdo's nephew Morthu ap Talorgen is allied with this Arling and he is sending Sabbatian plans and models of many things used in your country such as waterwheels and flails for threshing wheat.