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Meaning Of Breastwheel
n.
A water wheel, on which 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.