water wheel
📖 中文释义
- [电] 水车
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other
- purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; --
- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an
- undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an
- intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex
- wheel, turbine wheel, etc.
- The paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
- A wheel for raising water; a noria, or the like.