释义 |
waterwheelwa‧ter‧wheel /ˈwɔːtəwiːl $ ˈwɒːtər-, ˈwɑː-/ noun [countable] - 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.
a large wheel that is turned by water and is used to drive machinery |