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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large wheel fitted for taking salmon, used in the Dalles of the Columbia river. It is adjusted so that salmon running up narrow swift channels are seized by its flanges and thrown into a receptacle on shore. Commonly called a fish-wheel.
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