breast wheel

breast wheel
noun
: a waterwheel onto which the water is led at about axle height and which acts partly by impulse and partly by the weight of the descending water in the buckets — compare overshot wheel, undershot wheel

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a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
[1750-60]

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breast wheel noun
A water wheel turned by water delivered upon it at about half its height
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Main Entry:breast

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