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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The part of a race in which a water-wheel is fixed.
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A pair had built for forty years, according to tradition, in a wheel-race near to where I was born, and had never been molested by anybody until a gentleman in the neighbourhood, who was a great ornithologist, employed his gamekeeper to shoot this pair.
Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett 1838
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