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UK
/wˈɔːtəwˌiːl/
]
NOUN
- a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond
- a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine
How To Use waterwheel In A Sentence
- He used Daniel Bernoulli's theoretical work on the ‘reaction effect’ to produce a horizontal waterwheel using the same principle which drives a modern lawn sprinkler.
- To power their sawmill's waterwheel, they carved out a channel which in effect created the island we know today.
- It is no different in function from the waterwheel on the old mill.
- Wind turbines turn lazily in a waft of air, a frog croaks in a pond, a small white goat munches grass along the driveway and a waterwheel makes faint sloshing noises as it turns.
- Electricity generated through the use of waterwheels or hydraulic turbines is known as hydroelectric power.
- He applied mechanics to improve turbines and waterwheels more than doubling the efficiency of the waterwheel.
- On weekends, you can witness the mill in operation; the waterwheel provides a never-ending display of splashes in the sunlight.
- By 1812 Jefferson had three threshing machines in operation, two powered by horses and one by a waterwheel.
- Because of the size of the engine, it is started using power from the waterwheel, which is on the opposite side of the mill, through the main drive shaft.
- The lower stone was fixed and the upper one turned by the machinery (driven by a waterwheel in this case).
