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breastshot

breastshot adjective: vertically mounted, and rotated by falling water striking buckets near the center of the wheel's edge, or just above it.

Adjective

breastshot (not comparable)

  1. Vertically mounted, and rotated by falling water striking buckets near the center of the wheel's edge, or just above it.

Origin of breastshot

From breast + shot.

Questions about breastshot

What does breastshot mean?
Breastshot means vertically mounted, and rotated by falling water striking buckets near the center of the wheel's edge, or just above it.
What part of speech is breastshot?
Breastshot is an adjective.

Words near breastshot in the dictionary

  1. breasts down
  2. breasts one's cards
  3. breasts the tape
  4. breasts up
  5. breastsful
  6. breastshot
  7. breastsleep
  8. breastsleeping
  9. breastsleeps
  10. breastslept
  11. breaststrap

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