Water wheel: alternatives and connections

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…

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.

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…

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…

a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting

The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.

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…

Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by…

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"

A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating…

A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of…

A similar wheel used in other machinery.

A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and m…

A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into th…

The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.