- Isolated community or district - Take back - Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an
opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river
channel, or across a river bar. - An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands,
caused by an obstruction. - Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by
the paddle wheels of a steamer.
- A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream
against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which
water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China,
and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.