watermill
nounEtymology From water + mill.
› A mill powered by water.
1
The machine or device itself.
- Near-synonym: water engine
2
The machine and the building that houses it, considered as a unit.
- Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order. Near by is the water-driven turbine which [Rudyard] Kipling had installed in 1902 to light his mansion with electricity.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98:
- Related terms
- grist mill, gristmill, flour mill, flourmill, feed mill, feedmill, water power, waterpower