millwheel

Questions about millwheel

What does millwheel mean?

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

How many syllables are in millwheel?

millwheel has 2 syllables: mill-wheel. The stress falls on "mill".

What is another word for millwheel?

Close synonyms include mill wheel. 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 millwheel a common word?

millwheel 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.