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n. - A mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps.

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  • Also around 1870, the tread power appeared as the industrial form of the old treadwheel and disk.
  • To pay higher and higher co-payments on the medicines we take to cure us of the stress and anxiety caused by the enormous treadwheel on which we run?
  • Finally, with great structural intricacy, the aim of becoming independent from the will and moods of the animal and simultaneously minimizing the output fluctuations was...
  • Judging by the data on a water-raising treadwheel that was in operation until the mid-'30s at Conradsburg in the Harz Mountains, one could easily come to the opposite...
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