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Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) One of the bars of a lantern wheel.

Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels..

Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head..

Cycloscope :: Cycloscope (n.) A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine..

Bob :: Bob (n.) A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc..

Jumper :: "Jumper (n.) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece..

Spider :: Spider (n.) A skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc..

Mesh :: Mesh (v. i.) To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels..

Beam :: Beam (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam..

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

Carryall :: Carryall (n.) A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse..

Pinion :: Pinion (n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis..

Glazer :: Glazer (n.) A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc..

Telltale :: Telltale (n.) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm..

Detent :: Detent (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking..

Frame :: Frame (n.) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

Ratchet :: Ratchet (n.) A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

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

Wheeled :: Wheeled (imp. & p. p.) of Whee.

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