water wheel

Questions about water wheel

What does water wheel mean?

water wheel means "a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for water wheel?

Close synonyms include waterwheel, waterwheel. 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 water wheel a common word?

water wheel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.