overshot wheel

noun

1. a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of overshot wheel¹

First recorded in 1665–75

Example Sentences

When they came to the narrow bridge beside the mill, with its roughened causeway eternally shaken by the roar and wet with the spray of the overshot wheel, she trembled.

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It was run at first with a small flutter wheel, which was replaced by a an overshot wheel, 30 feet; that by another, 45 feet, and that by one 50 feet in diameter.

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The motive power is an overshot wheel, propelled by water from two large springs.

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It was run by water brought from McKusick creek, the motive power being an overshot wheel forty-five feet in diameter.

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"What of this old fellow, who has the mill?—has he consented to have the overshot wheel?"

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