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n. - Circular frame that water runs over that is used to drive machinery in a factory.

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Usage examples (24)
  • Everything is going round and round in my head like a millwheel.
  • "I think it was about there," Tenoctris called from the beside the millwheel, where she and Cashel had sheltered during the night to watch the drover.
  • It was a rambling structure, the great, splashing millwheel at the far end, the long warehouse in the middle, and the dwelling attached to the other end.
  • He didn't think he made a sound but Tenoctris, standing in the shelter of the great cypress-wood millwheel, turned and beckoned him urgently to join her.
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