Word Meanings - BREASTWHEEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A water wheel, on which 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 float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.

• Beaten
  of Beat
• Bevilled
  Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
• BETARAYS
  Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher
• Beltane
  The first day of May (Old Style).
• Bedimmed
  of Bedim
• Water bath
  A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
• WATERMINT
  A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
• Benting time
  The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
• Befouling
  of Befoul
• Water measurer
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• Besought
  of Beseech
• Belaboring
  of Belabor
• Bestower
  One that bestows.
• BEALL
  The whole; all that is to be. [Poetic] Shak.
• Beleaguer
  To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
• Beaufet
  A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.
• Bewetted
  of Bewet
• STREAMWHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• Bemean
  To make mean; to lower.
• Bedplate
  The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.

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