Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any water-wheel or turbine; in a narrower and the more common sense, any form of small motor using water under pressure, and serving to drive light machinery. Such as printing-presses and sewing-machines.
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Examples
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If water-power can be used, the water-motor will necessarily be placed as low as possible, in order to obtain the fullest available power.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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Church, and dependent on no assistance except that of the water-motor, he would, for a half hour or more, and sometimes for hours, delight and refresh himself with this organ, -- grandest of all but one, in
Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885
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The three or four messengers of the association bring a number of other implements with them, and when these machines are brought into connection with the shafts above or below, and the tap of the water-motor is opened, the room is swept and washed while you can turn round, and the heaviest articles set in their places; in short, everything is put right silently and with magical rapidity, though human hands could have done it only slowly and with a great deal of disagreeable noise.
Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884
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I want justice regarding that water-motor of mine. "
The Master Mystery John W. Grey 1908
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"My dear fellow," he confided, "for some time I have been considering your water-motor.
The Master Mystery John W. Grey 1908
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