| 单词 | pot-wheel |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspot-wheel pot-wheel n. a wheel fitted with pots or buckets for raising water; a noria. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water > wheel for raising water waterwheel1591 Persian wheel1649 sakia1687 noria1696 Egyptian wheel1793 bucket-wheel1797 tabut1836 pot-wheel1852 tympan1858 irrigation-wheel1864 spider-wheel1868 tympanum1875 1852 J. Bennett tr. J. F. d'Aubuisson de Voisins Treat. Hydraulics 443 ‘From authentic experiments, they produced an effect superior to that of the best executed “pot wheels,”’ says Carnot, in the name of the commission of the Institute appointed to the examination of this machine (Journal des mines, 1813, tom. XXXIII). a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1780/2 Pot-wheel, a form of water-raising wheel. 1997 P. V. Adams in H. Roupp Teaching World Hist. ii. xx. 121 Each experienced the massive medieval economic revolution. In China its distinctive features were wet-rice cultivation, year-round multicropping, hydrological system——the dam, sluice gate, noria (peripheral pot-wheel), and treadle water pump. < as lemmas |
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