Water Wheel Definition

Water Wheel Sentence Examples

• The right water wheel drives the circular saw, while the left drives the frame saw.

• But his operations were at first greatly fettered by want of capital, until Jedediah Strutt, having satisfied himself of the value of the machines, entered with his partner, Samuel Need, into partnership with him, and enabled him in 1771 to build a second factory, on a much larger scale, at Cromford in Derbyshire, the machinery of which was turned by a water-wheel.

• Sonning Mill was one of the last flour mills on the river to be driven by water wheel.

• The two substantial water wheel pits housed 30 ' x 4 ' and 40 ' x 4 ' wheels respectively.

• With one such water-wheel a pair of oxen can raise water any height up to 18 ft., and keep from 5 to 12 acres irrigated throughout an Egyptian summer.