Persian wheel
noun
1= bucket-wheel.
2A type of waterwheel having curved or radial compartments which pick up water when submerged and discharge it near the axis.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Walter Blith (bap. 1605, d. 1654), writer on husbandry.
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