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Definition of Treadwheel
1. Noun. A mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps.
Definition of Treadwheel
1. n. A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.
Definition of Treadwheel
1. Noun. A wheel turned by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet upon its periphery, as for example in a treadmill. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Treadwheel
Literary usage of Treadwheel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1862)
"Time for time, the effect of crank-labour is less than that of the treadwheel;
but experience proves that the former is not inferior in severity to the ..."
2. Revelations of Prison Life: With an Enquiry Into Prison Discipline and by George Laval Chesterton (1856)
"... TO ESCAPE—treadwheel LABOUR—VARIED PORTRAITS. I HAD not been many weeks in
office, ere my reforming spirit had either so curtailed the stealthy comforts ..."
3. Fifty Years of Public Service by Arthur Griffiths (1904)
"Military Prisoners at Millbank—The Regime in the Seventies—The Crank—" Shot
Drill"—The treadwheel: its Good and Bad Points—The Story of ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"the urea produced would not be eliminated within that period, and hence we cannot
take this as indisputable evidence of the effect of treadwheel-labour. ..."
5. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by G. W. Hastings, Andr. Edgar, Edw. Pears, Ch. W. Ryalls (1865)
"I do not see any objection to prisoners being placed upon the treadwheel and the
crank under proper regulations. On the contrary, I am favourable to their ..."
6. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1862)
"Such is the effect of crank-labour, an effect which lime for time is less than
that of the treadwheel ; but the experience in prisons proves that crank- ..."
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