Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pit inclosed by the piers which support a large fly-wheel or driving-wheel, affording the requisite space for the motion of the wheel.
- noun A whirlpool.
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Examples
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Luther Lawrence was killed, April 17, 1839, by a fall into a wheel-pit.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 Various
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The race, now empty of water, is stone-lined and deep, and huge wooden beams and parts of the rude shafting remain in the wheel-pit.
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A concrete gathering dam, with granite coping, extended up stream from the lower end of the wheel-pit at an angle of thirty degrees, conducts the water to the gates, increasing the available head and stilling the water.
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Simon threw him into the wheel-pit of the old mill, and I went to get him out.
Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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"Wa-ow!" replied a pitiful squeak from the depths of the wheel-pit.
Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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At the bottom of each wheel-pit a 5000 horse-power Girard double turbine is mounted on a vertical shaft, which drives a propeller shaft rising to the surface of the ground; a dynamo of 5000 horse - power is fixed on the top of this shaft, and so driven by it.
The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889
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He laid his mallet on the side of the wheel-pit, and looking up earnestly into the face of the questioner said:
John and Mary; or, The Fugitive Slaves, a Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania 1873
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On passing round this, though, I saw that there was something wrong; two or three bands had gone from as many grindstones, and had evidently been hastily thrown into the wheel-pit, whoever had done this having left one on the floor, half in and half out, and keeping the door from shutting close.
Patience Wins War in the Works George Manville Fenn 1870
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I seemed to know, though, that the dog wanted to get me to the wheel-pit, and when I tried to think how to get to you I found there was no way 'cept through my forge.
Patience Wins War in the Works George Manville Fenn 1870
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I laughed to myself as I thought of the eels, and the great haul I had made down in the wheel-pit, and then I shuddered as I thought of the horrors I had suffered down there, and wondered whether our troubles with the men were pretty well over.
Patience Wins War in the Works George Manville Fenn 1870
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