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Overshot vs Breastwheel - What's the difference?

overshot | breastwheel |

As a verb overshot

is (overshoot).

As an adjective overshot

is (of a waterwheel) powered by water that flows over the top from above.

As a noun breastwheel is

a water wheel where the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting the water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.

overshot

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overshoot)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a waterwheel) powered by water that flows over the top from above

    • Related terms

    * undershot

    breastwheel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A water wheel where the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.
    • (Webster 1913)