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Rowel :: Rowel (n.) A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.

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..

Driver :: Driver (n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive.

Trochoid :: Trochoid (n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids..

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) The burden or refrain of a song.

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels..

Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

Rudder :: Rudder (n.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment..

Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.

Lobe :: Lobe (n.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.

Feather :: Feather (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water..

Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet..

Trig :: Trig (v. t.) To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid..

Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal..

Staff :: Staff (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch..

Fan :: Fan (n.) Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel..

Dearborn :: Dearborn (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides..

Ribaudequin :: Ribaudequin (n.) An engine of war used in the Middle Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon..

Gear :: Gear (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively..

Chute :: Chute (n.) A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel..

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