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Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex wheel, turbine wheel, etc.
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n.
The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
n.
A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
n.
An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.
v. t.
To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
n.
A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel.
v. t.
To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
v. t.
To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
n.
One who, or that which, propels.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Propel
n.
Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
n.
A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.
v. t.
To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
n.
A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.
n.
A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.
imp. & p. p.
of Propel
a.
Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body.
n.
A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.
n.
A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
v. i.
A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water.
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