"Water wheel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mortar with a heavy wooden beetle or mallet. Often the beetle is fastened to a beam and worked by foot. Or the polishing apparatus may be driven by water, oil or steam power. Constantly in the country there are seen little sheds in each of which a small polishing mill driven by a water wheel is working away by itself. After the polishing, the mangoku doshi is used again to free the rice from the bran. This polished rice is still further polished by the dealer, who has more perfect mills ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott
... by a complete system of drainage, mere marshy rush-growing meadows have been made capable of carrying capital root and wheat crops, while the waste water has been carried to a head, and then by a large overshot water wheel, working below the surface of the ground, made useful for thrashing, chaff and root cutting, and ...
— Rides on Railways • Samuel Sidney
... a large mill-pond with a race running out of one side of it past the old-fashioned mill, which has a big wooden water wheel ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester |
