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pit wheel

pit wheel is the alternative form of pitwheel.

Meaning of pitwheel

Noun

pitwheel (plural pitwheels)

  1. A wheel forming part of the machinery in a watermill, mounted on the opposite end of the axle to the waterwheel, and driving the wallower on the upright shaft or layshaft.

Forms of pit wheel

pluralpit wheels

Questions about pit wheel

What is pit wheel the alternative form of?
Pit wheel is the alternative form of pitwheel.

Words near pit wheel in the dictionary

  1. pit toilets
  2. pit village
  3. pit villages
  4. pit viper
  5. pit vipers
  6. pit wheel
  7. pit wheels
  8. pit-a-pat
  9. pit-a-pats
  10. pit-a-patted
  11. pit-a-patting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pit wheel (page history and authors); pitwheel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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