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Bay, or Pen

of a great height to keep in water for the supply of a mill, etc., so that the wheel of the mill may be turned by the water rushing thence, through a passage or flood-gate, 27 Eliz.

Snakehead

American railroads It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car

Smokejack

A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney

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Skid

A shoe or clog as of iron attached to a chain and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill a drag a skidpan also by

Sakieh

A kind of water wheel used in Egypt for raising water from wells or pits in buckets attached to its periphery or to

Relay governor

A speed regulator as a water wheel governor embodying the relay principle

Rotative

turning as a wheel rotary rotational

Rotation

The act of turning as a wheel or a solid body on its axis as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another

Rolling

surface by rotation turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot as a rolling wheel or ball

Roll

to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface as to roll a wheel a ball or a barrel

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