danaide

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English

Etymology

From the mythical Danaides, who were condemned to fill a hole-filled vessel with water.

Noun

danaide (plural danaides)

  1. (engineering) A water wheel having a vertical axis and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for danaide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)