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

Play :: Play (n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action..

Rundle :: Rundle (n.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Catherine Wheel :: Catherine wheel () A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name.

Vettura :: Vettura (n.) An Italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach..

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

Hob :: Hob (n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc..

Axle Box :: Axle box () A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes..

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

Ratchet :: Ratchet (n.) A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch..

Gyroscope :: Gyroscope (n.) A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion..

Axletree :: Axletree (n.) A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve..

Scheele''s Green :: Scheele's green () See under Green.

Leader :: Leader (n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.

Face :: Face (n.) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line..

Heel :: Heel (n.) A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen.

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

Rowel :: Rowel (n.) The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points..

Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..

Tarantass :: Tarantass (n.) A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge..

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