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noun · 78% connection
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or co…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
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: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
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: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
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: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
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: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
Careen
verb · 78% connection
To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
Chain pump
unknown · 78% connection
A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. Th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
Chute
noun · 78% connection
A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
Contourne'
adjective · 78% connection
Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
Conveyor
noun · 78% connection
A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
Corrasion
noun · 78% connection
The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
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: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
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: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
Danaide
noun · 78% connection
A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to bot…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
Drag
verb · 78% connection
The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
Feeder
noun · 78% connection
a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material; "the feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
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: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
Fountain
noun · 78% connection
An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin bu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, water, wheel, turned, stream.
