Other forms: watermills
A watermill is a mill driven by a wheel turned by a stream. An old watermill, the watermill wheel, restore the watermill.
It was the first machine to replace muscle at scale, and the Domesday Book records thousands of them in England alone. An overshot wheel takes water at the top and is far more efficient than one turned from below.
1nounwatermillA mill driven by a wheel turned by a stream.
“The old watermill still grinds flour, its wheel turned by the stream.”
watermill is a mill.
Water plus mill, from Latin mola, a millstone.
From water + mill.
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