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