treadwheel
IPA: trˈɛdwiɫ
noun
- A wheel turned by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet upon its periphery, as for example in a treadmill.
tread-wheel
IPA: trˈɛdwiɫ
noun
- a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps
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Examples of "treadwheel" in Sentences
- The treadwheel dates from the early seventeenth century.
- The treadwheel crane remained in use until the end of the 1800s
- It is the only double wheel treadwheel crane in the United Kingdom.
- A treadwheel is a form of animal engine typically powered by humans.
- A 'treadwheel' is a form of animal engine typically powered by humans.
- This submarine was built by August Howaldt and powered by a treadwheel.
- Also around 1870, the tread power appeared as the industrial form of the old treadwheel and disk.
- [With a Rube Goldberg treadwheel-mouse-generated shoe-lever in the plastic butt to TexasBestGrok for the link.]
- This study gives an informed look at medieval treadwheel cranes, inluding how to calculate the mechanical advantage of a treadwheel.
- To pay higher and higher co-payments on the medicines we take to cure us of the stress and anxiety caused by the enormous treadwheel on which we run?
- This concerns a treadwheel with a diameter of 456 centimetres: 2 x 213 cm radius of the wheel + 2 x 15 cm radius of the drum (diameter = 2 x radius).
- Finally, with great structural intricacy, the aim of becoming independent from the will and moods of the animal and simultaneously minimizing the output fluctuations was accomplished by tying the animal in place - often enough with a noose around its neck - in a treadwheel or on a disk.
- The former are exposed to the inclemencies of the weather, and the hardships of toil -- the latter are cruelly dragged away from their infants, that the master may not lose the smallest portion of time, -- and _both_ are liable at any moment to be incarcerated in the dungeon, or strung up on the treadwheel.
- Judging by the data on a water-raising treadwheel that was in operation until the mid-'30s at Conradsburg in the Harz Mountains, one could easily come to the opposite conclusion, since the system was veritably ridden with friction losses: the bearing had to support not only the weight of the disk or wheel, but also that of the animal.
Examples of "tread-wheel" in Sentences
- "The horse on the tread-wheel can look through a crack, and see a flower growing outside."
- Bismarck, Tolstoy said, was another of the “oldjades” walking the “tread-wheel” of politics.
- The provisions for the fortress are brought in up an inclined plane, and raised by means of a tread-wheel, formerly worked by the prisoners.
- The scheme was singularly adventurous, but the die was cast; he was in the position of the man on the tread-wheel, and felt that he must write or perish.
- When I went to Maysville to school, in 1836, at the age of fourteen, I recognized my colt as one of the blind horses working on the tread-wheel of the ferry-boat.
- On the towers of the four prison wings there are reservoirs for containing water, which is thrown up by a pump worked by the prisoners at the tread-wheel, whenever water is required, and by means of lead pipes, it is then conveyed to every part of the prison.
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