Definition of overshot wheel. Meaning of overshot wheel. Synonyms of overshot wheel

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Definition of overshot wheel

overshot wheel
Water wheel Wa"ter wheel` 1. Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex wheel, turbine wheel, etc. 2. The paddle wheel of a steam vessel. 3. A wheel for raising water; a noria, or the like.

Meaning of overshot wheel from wikipedia

- can refer to any wheel where the water p****es under the wheel but it usually implies that the water entry is low on the wheel. Overshot and backshot water...
- further subdivided, depending on where the water hits the wheel paddles, into undershot, overshot, ****hot and pitchback (backshot or reverse shot) waterwheel...
- probably elsewhere (such as agricultural drainage), the reverse overshot water wheel was a Roman innovation to help remove water from the lowest levels...
- moving water, as opposed to water's dead weight like the traditional overshot water wheel. Many earlier variations of impulse turbines existed, but they were...
- continued for the early Middle Ages here. Undershot water wheel ****hot water wheel Overshot water wheel In the following, literary, epigraphical and do****entary...
- Blankenship powered his new mill with electricity, and abandoned the classic overshot wheel and mill race design of its predecessor. Brothers Russell and Roy Perkins...
- "Let Me Feel Your Pulse", "October and June", "The Church with an Overshot-Wheel", "New York by Camp Fire Light", "The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes"...
- millwheel was probably a wood overshot wheel. The present 40-foot-diameter (12 m) Fitz Water Wheel Company steel overshot wheel was built in 1894; with the...
- roofed addition built of fieldstone. The grist mill is powered by an overshot wheel. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982....
- 1920 Vitagraph movie of the O. Henry short story The Church With an Overshot Wheel. Part of a 94 film series from O. Henry works of which only two survive...