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tub wheels

tub wheels is the plural of tub wheel.

Meaning of tub 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

Questions about tub wheels

What is tub wheels the plural of?
Tub wheels is the plural of tub wheel.

Words near tub wheels in the dictionary

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

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