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tub wheel

tub wheel noun: in water-powered mills, a horizontal water wheel used to power a grinding stone set in a tub; usually in the form of a short cylinder turned by the impact of one or more streams of water striking against vanes attached radially to the wheel.

Noun

tub wheel (plural tub wheels)

  1. In water-powered mills, a horizontal water wheel used to power a grinding stone set in a tub; usually in the form of a short cylinder turned by the impact of one or more streams of water striking against vanes attached radially to the wheel.
    • "Whether the man used to give him Christmas cakes and beer, as they do in some places, I don't know, but I should think he didn't, for every time he went to grind his corn the goblin got hold of the tub-wheel and stopped the mill, and he couldn't get any corn ground."1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 156

Forms of tub wheel

pluraltub wheels

Questions about tub wheel

What does tub wheel mean?
Tub wheel means in water-powered mills, a horizontal water wheel used to power a grinding stone set in a tub; usually in the form of a short cylinder turned by the impact of one or more streams of water striking against vanes attached radially to the wheel.
What part of speech is tub wheel?
Tub wheel is a noun.
What is the plural of tub wheel?
The plural of tub wheel is tub wheels.

Words near tub wheel in the dictionary

  1. tub files
  2. tub gurnard
  3. tub gurnards
  4. tub of guts
  5. tub of lard
  6. tub wheel
  7. tub wheels
  8. tub-fast
  9. tub-fasts
  10. tub-gig
  11. tub-gigs

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