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Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint..

Cyclostyle :: Cyclostyle (n.) A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller..

Manumotor :: Manumotor (n.) A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it..

Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate..

Equirotal :: Equirotal (a.) Having wheels of the same size or diameter; having equal rotation.

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.

Sprod :: Sprocket wheel () Same as Chain wheel.

Chariot :: Chariot (n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc..

Trigger :: Trigger (n.) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

Mahovo :: Mahovo (n.) A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel..

Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam..

Strake :: Strake (n.) An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces..

Milldam :: Milldam (n.) A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel..

Lap :: Lap (n.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis..

Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

Torture :: Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel..

Enwheel :: Enwheel (v. t.) To encircle.

Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.

High-pressure :: High-pressure (a.) Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc..

Birr :: Birr (n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel..

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