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Avail
verb · 78% connection
To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Backboard
noun · 78% connection
A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the whee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Bank
noun · 78% connection
A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a ban…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Breasting
noun · 78% connection
The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Breastwheel
noun · 78% connection
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Bucket
noun · 78% connection
One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Cathetometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Counterbalance
noun · 78% connection
A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Crown wheel
unknown · 78% connection
A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Divert
verb · 78% connection
To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert comm…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Flume
noun · 78% connection
A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Full
noun · 78% connection
To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Gristmill
noun · 78% connection
A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Head
noun · 78% connection
The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Inefficiency
noun · 78% connection
The quality of being inefficient; want of power or energy sufficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; ineff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Mill
noun · 78% connection
A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powd…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Milling
noun · 78% connection
The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge u…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
Noria
noun · 78% connection
A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mound, obstruct, water, course, raise.
