Feathering wheel
| (Naut.) | a paddle wheel whose floats turn automatically so as to dip about perpendicularly into the water and leave in it the same way, avoiding beating on the water in the descent and lifting water in the ascent. |
See also: Feathering
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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