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Wallower   Listen
noun
Wallower  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, wallows.
2.
(Mach.) A lantern wheel; a trundle.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wallower" Quotes from Famous Books



... say: A Steam Jack, consisting of a boiler, three wheels, and two wallowers; the steam which issues from boiling water in the said boiler gives motion to one of those wheels by striking on buckets on its circumference; on the outer end of the axle of the wheel is a wallower, the rounds of which fall into the teeth of a second wheel; on the axle of this second wheel is another wallower, the rounds of which fall into the teeth of a third wheel; on the axle of which third wheel is a spit: ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various



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