Meaning of water wheel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.
2. A wheel with buckets used to raise water.

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Examples

“"Yes, yes, I'll tell you the road directly, it's it's straight on through the wood till you come to the big water-wheel!"”

“Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.”

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