English Explanatory Dictionary

pitwheel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A wheel forming part of the machinery in a watermill, mounted on the opposite end of the axle to the waterwheel, and driving the wallower on the upright shaft or layshaft.

Word forms

pitwheel pitwheels pit wheel

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *puti Old English pytt Middle English pit English pit Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel English pitwheel From pit + wheel.

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