breastwheel

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Synonyms: breast wheel

Antonyms: breast wheel

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Noun

1. A [[water wheel]] where the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the [[overshot]] wheel, nor so low as in the [[undershot]], but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the [[breasting]]. The water acts on the [[floatboard]]s partly by impulse, partly by its weight.

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