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Throw :: Throw (n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a)..

Heel :: Heel (n.) The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds..

Engage :: Engage (v. t.) To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part..

Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right..

Caracole :: Caracole (v. i.) To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel..

Box :: Box (v. t.) To furnish with boxes, as a wheel..

Heel :: Heel (v. t.) To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe..

Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated..

Trough :: Trough (n.) A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel..

Clarence :: Clarence (n.) A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver..

Spurned :: Spurling-line (n.) The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.

Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..

Barouche :: Barouche (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat..

Ratch :: Ratch (n.) A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works..

Sponged :: Sponge (n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel..

Heeltapped :: Heeltapped (imp. & p. p.) of Heelta.

Yerk :: Yerk (v. i.) To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk.

Sterquilinous :: Stern-wheeler (n.) A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.

Gather :: Gather (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill..

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