Definition of wheel

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Wheel (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.

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Helm :: Helm (n.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone..
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..
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..
Leader :: Leader (n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
Wheeled :: Wheeled (imp. & p. p.) of Whee.
Penstock :: Penstock (n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses..
Four-wheeler :: Four-wheeler (n.) A vehicle having four wheels.
Water Wheel :: Water wheel () The paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
Staff :: Staff (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch..
Orb :: Orb (n.) A revolving circular body; a wheel.
Marker :: Marker (n.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment..
Peritrochium :: Peritrochium (n.) The wheel which, together with the axle, forms the axis in peritrochio, which see under Axis..
Truckle-bed :: Truckle-bed (n.) A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed..
Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys..
Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve..
Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc..
Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.
Chariot :: Chariot (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat..
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