mill wheel

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   water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill

   Synonymsmillwheel

   Broaderwaterwheel

   Part ofwater mill

   Partspaddle

Questions about mill wheel

What does mill wheel mean?

mill wheel means "water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill".

What is another word for mill wheel?

Close synonyms include millwheel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mill wheel a common word?

mill wheel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.