Definition of Millwheel

1. Noun. Water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill.

Exact synonyms: Mill Wheel
Terms within: Paddle
Group relationships: Water Mill
Generic synonyms: Water Wheel, Waterwheel

Definition of Millwheel

1. Noun. A water wheel used to power a mill ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Millwheel

millponds
millrace
millraces
millrind
millrinds
millrun
millruns
mills around
mills of the gods grind slowly
millstone
millstones
millstream
millstreams
milltail
milltails
millwheel (current term)
millwheels
millwork
millworker
millworkers
millworks
millwright
millwrights
milnacipran
milneb
milnebs
milo
milo maize
milometer
milonga

Literary usage of Millwheel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"... which serves to take away that which passes over the millwheel at right angles to where the rock has been cut away to make room for the millwheel itself ..."

2. The General Stud-book, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. &c. from the (1901)
"1'iiH-V jil'ÍU 1901 by Kc<l Heart (dam, The Sabine)- -J 1900 ch. c. by Rapallo - - -1 ,Twr, Mar-Pali, millwheel (Chesnut),-foaled in 1880, by York, ..."

3. Teutonic mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1888)
"To cure ansprang (a kind of rash) on a child, get a piece of wood out of a millwheel, set it alight, and smoke the swathings with it ; wa. ..."

4. Oral and Written English by Milton Chase Potter, Harry Jewett Jeschke, Harry Orrin Gillet (1921)
"... but always distinctly, easily, and in a pleasant tone of voice: To the windmills said the millwheel, " As the wind wills do you still wheel ? ..."

5. The Wind in the Clearing: And Other Poems by Robert Cameron Rogers (1894)
"Out of the sunny pasture— From turbid pools, once clear, From the troubled toss at the millwheel, Came answer, " We are here. They have checked our flow by ..."

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