breastshot

As a noun terms

is .

As an adjective breastshot is

(of a water wheel) vertically mounted, and rotated by falling water striking buckets near the center of the wheel's edge, or just above it.

In of a [[water wheel]]|lang=en terms the difference between breastshot and backshot

is that breastshot is (of a water wheel) vertically mounted, and rotated by falling water striking buckets near the center of the wheel's edge, or just above it while backshot is (of a water wheel) having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.

As adjectives the difference between breastshot and backshot

is that breastshot is (of a water wheel) vertically mounted, and rotated by falling water striking buckets near the center of the wheel's edge, or just above it while backshot is (of a water wheel) having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.

As a noun backshot is

(chiefly|sport).