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 water wheel In A Sentence
- He first constructed a horizontal wheel that he named a Danaide, and later devised another, the Vortex Water Wheel, which he patented in July 1850 and which came to be used extensively.
- After it gushes from the fountain in the temple precinct, the water is lifted by shadoof, water wheels, to the gardens of the palace, or sent by canals to every quarter of the city. ' Warlock
- In the late fifties when high pressure water was reticulated throughout Waimairi County use of the water wheel ceased and it fell into disrepair.
- Driven by water passing from below, as a water wheel.
- The old men pose athwart a water wheel.
- The water wheel goes round and around.
- It was taken to Ilam to pump water for domestic supply from an artesian bore near the water wheel to a water tank on a tower beside the homestead.
- The water wheel was constructed from an electric cable spool.
- The noria (Fig. 3.18) or water wheel is a cheap and economical means of lifting water up to 3 or 4 meters (10 or 12 feet) above the water surface of a river or small stream. 1.1 The role and purpose of irrigation
- A watercourse that feeds water into a mill, water wheel, or turbine.
