Meanings
nounwheel house (plural wheel houses)
plural wheel houses
- alternativeAlternative form of wheelhouse.
A machine with two pair of moulds only, will make from fifty to seventy thousand bricks per week. But if the regular market be large, it can, by using a steam machine of 10 horse power, work sixteen moulds, (four on each side of the wheel house,) and make two hundred thousand bricks per week.
1835 February, “Brick Machine”, in New-York Farmer, and American Gardener’s Magazine, volume III (New Series; volumne VIII overall), number 2, New York, N.Y.: Published by the proprietor, D. K. Minor, […], →OCLC, page 47, column 2
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