water-gin

1) A ‘gin’ operated by water power, that is by a water wheel.

The drawing of water in this way was a practice commented on in The Compleat Collier and it was known in south Yorkshire from about that time: 1713 water gin, house and ropes, Sheffield.

places Sheffield
dates 1713

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