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breastwheel

English

Etymology

breast +? wheel

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.

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breasting

English

Verb

breasting

  1. present participle of breast

Noun

breasting (plural breastings)

  1. (engineering) The curved channel in which a breastwheel turns.

Anagrams

  • abstringe, beratings, bitranges

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