breast-wheel

Updated: May 19, 2025

Difficult Creek ran impetuously across the road below, as if anxious to be put to some use again; and the miller's house adjoining, was now used as a hospital, for Lieutenant-Colonel Kane, and some inferior officers. It was a favorite design of the Quartermaster's to scrape the mill-stone, repair the race, and put the great breast-wheel to work.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War