Each of the blades or float-boards fixed around an undershot waterwheel or a breast-wheel, against which the force of the water acts. Also (Scottish…

The bucket of a waterwheel or of a dredging or draining machine.

Any one of the boards of an undershot waterwheel or of a paddle-wheel; a float-board.

One of the float-boards of a waterwheel.

The inner circle of a waterwheel (cf. quot. 1797).

one of the boards of an undershot waterwheel; one of the paddles of a paddle-wheel.

= 4.

Originally: each of the arms or spokes radiating from a revolving drum, axle, or wheel on a boat, and passing in turn through the water so as to…

Mechanics. The shrouds of a waterwheel forming an annular rim at the ends of the buckets.

Mechanics. One of the partitions of the bucket of an overshot waterwheel. ? Obsolete.

The pit under a waterwheel at a mine.

In various technical uses. In a watermill powered by a breast-shot wheel: the curved channel or casing in which the wheel turns; = breasting, n. 2.

One of the floats of a paddle-wheel.

= shroud-plate n. at shroud, n.1 compounds 2.

= 7b.

Staves collectively. (See quot. 1875.)

Technical senses. Either of the two annular plates at the periphery of a waterwheel, forming the ends of the buckets.