great wheel

American  

noun

Horology.

1. the wheel immediately driven by the power source.

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Example Sentences

In the early morning of Friday, June 9, as his train passed through the South Side, Gronau saw how the great wheel towered over everything in its vicinity, just as Eiffel’s creation did in Paris.

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The windlass, which had helped lift the timbers of the roof, was already in place and was used to raise the great wheel.

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The beans were put into a shiny brass hopper, and the great wheel was turned with two hands.

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The first was the windlass and the second was the great wheel.

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She thundered to the place where the sound came from, the mill channel up ahead, where the great wheel creaked and strained.

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