💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Stream wheel"
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| flutter wheelnoun | A water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats. |
| millwheelnoun | A water wheel used to power a watermill. |
| water-wheelnoun | Alternative spelling of water wheel. [A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.] |
| tub wheelnoun | In water-powered mills, a horizontal water wheel used to power a grinding stone set in a tub; usually in the form of a short cylinder turned by the impact of one or more streams of water striking against vanes attached radially to the wheel. |
| water wheelnoun | A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery. |
| mill wheelnoun | Alternative form of millwheel. [A water wheel used to power a watermill.] |
| waterwheelnoun | Alternative spelling of water wheel. [A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.] |
| swing wheelnoun | The wheel that drives a clock's pendulum, corresponding to the balance wheel in a watch. |
| breastwheelnoun | A water wheel where the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the floatboards partly by impulse, partly by its weight. |
| pitwheelnoun | A wheel forming part of the machinery in a watermill, mounted on the opposite end of the axle to the waterwheel, and driving the wallower on the upright shaft or layshaft. |
| fishwheelnoun | Alternative form of fish wheel. [A water-powered device for catching fish that operates like a mill wheel.] |
| countwheelnoun | The wheel in a clock that regulates the number of strokes. |
| fish wheelnoun | A water-powered device for catching fish that operates like a mill wheel. |
| tide wheelnoun | A water wheel operated by the ebb and flow of the tide. |
| scoopwheelnoun | A wheel, driven by wind or steam, having a series of scoops that are used to raise water. |
| wheelnoun | A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. |
| dash-wheelnoun | A wheel-shaped box with compartments, in which cotton cloth is washed by the revolution of the wheel in liquid. |
| star wheelnoun | Alternative form of starwheel. [A star-shaped disk, used as a kind of ratchet wheel, in repeating watches and the feed motions of some machines.] |
| balance wheelnoun | The timekeeping device normally used in mechanical watches and small clocks, consisting of a wheel which oscillates due to a coiled spring. |
| water clocknoun | (chiefly historical) A device for measuring time using water, typically by measuring water flowing in or out of a basin of known size at a known rate. |
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