Water-wheel Synonyms

A wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. waterwheel

Words Related to Water-wheel

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. waterwheels
  2. beam-engine
  3. corn-mill
  4. pumping-engine
  5. steam-engine
  6. water mill

Water-wheel Sentence Examples

  • The right water wheel drives the circular saw, while the left drives the frame saw.

  • But his operations were at first greatly fettered by want of capital, until Jedediah Strutt, having satisfied himself of the value of the machines, entered with his partner, Samuel Need, into partnership with him, and enabled him in 1771 to build a second factory, on a much larger scale, at Cromford in Derbyshire, the machinery of which was turned by a water-wheel.

  • With one such water-wheel a pair of oxen can raise water any height up to 18 ft., and keep from 5 to 12 acres irrigated throughout an Egyptian summer.

  • Sonning Mill was one of the last flour mills on the river to be driven by water wheel.

  • The two substantial water wheel pits housed 30 ' x 4 ' and 40 ' x 4 ' wheels respectively.

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