Flash wheel

(Mech.) a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.

See also: Flash

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The Astra looks modern and stylish on the outside, from the strong V-shape of the front end to the flash wheel arches and sporty headlamps.
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The Astra looks modern and stylish on the outside from the strong Vshape of the front end to the flash wheel arches and sporty headlamps.
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Laura Braidwood followed her dad's example 30 years earlier, and ditched a swanky limo or flash wheels.
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He's suited and booted - but being only four his flash wheels are pedal-powered.
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It's not cheap to buy such flash wheels - and it's not cheap to insure them either.
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Cally inherited pounds 500,000 from his bookie father two years earlier - hence the flash wheels. The young junkie he was looking for in that opening scene turns out to be his kid brother.
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