waterwheel

[waw-ter-hweel, -weel, wot-er-]

wa·ter·wheel

[waw-ter-hweel, -weel, wot-er-]
noun
1.
a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
2.
a wheel with buckets for raising or drawing water, as a noria.
3.
the paddle wheel of a steamboat.
Also, water wheel.


Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English; see water, wheel
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Waterwheel is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
WordNet
waterwheel

noun
1. a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond 
2. a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine 
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