Definition of wheel

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Wheel (n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases..

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Tread :: Tread (n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
Boss :: Boss (n.) The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another..
Cam :: Cam (n.) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.
Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet..
Wheelwright :: Wheelwright (n.) A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like..
Wheeled :: Wheeled (imp. & p. p.) of Whee.
Throw :: Throw (n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a)..
Ladle :: Ladle (v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
Four-wheeler :: Four-wheeler (n.) A vehicle having four wheels.
Helm :: Helm (n.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone..
Chock :: Chock (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask..
Wheel :: Wheel (n.) The burden or refrain of a song.
Car :: Car (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart..
Whirl :: Whirl (v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel..
Jigger :: Jigger (n. & v.) A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.
Mahwa Tree :: Mahwa tree () An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit..
Gome :: Gome (n.) The black grease on the axle of a cart or wagon wheel; -- called also gorm. See Gorm.
Sprag :: Sprag (v. t.) To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel..
Brush Wheel :: Brush wheel () A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference..
Wheeling :: Wheeling (n.) Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling..
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