"breastwheel" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: breastwheels [plural]
Etymology: breast + wheel Etymology templates: {{compound|en|breast|wheel}} breast + wheel Head templates: {{en-noun}} breastwheel (plural breastwheels)
  1. 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 float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.
    Sense id: en-breastwheel-en-noun-PD7Gf8yP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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