wallower
English
Etymology
wallow + -er
Noun
wallower (plural wallowers)
- Agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.
- (dated, engineering) A lantern wheel; a trundle.
- 1847, Edward Cresy, An Encyclopaedia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical
- At each end of the water-wheel is a vertical shaft with wallowers […]
- 1847, Edward Cresy, An Encyclopaedia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical