waterwheel

/waw-ter-hweel, -weel, wot-er-/US // ˈwɔ tərˌʰwil, -ˌwil, ˈwɒt ər- //

水车,水轮,水車,瘞湔曄

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
- : a wheel with buckets for raising or drawing water, as a noria.
- : the paddle wheel of a steamboat.

Ceramic pipes were made to carry water from the spring to a waterwheel.
They are as swift as a waterwheel, each of them past another, one of them to the King's room, the other to the fire.
The whole was moved by an overshot waterwheel placed at the Bellevue dock.
The little buckets on the waterwheel keep an almost endless stream flowing into the irrigation ditch.
The next morning the girl heard the noise of the waterwheel, and she opened the lattice and looked out of the window.