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Bucket :: Bucket (n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel..

Rotiform :: Rotiform (a.) Wheel-shaped; as, rotiform appendages..

Cog :: Cog (n.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel..

Overreach :: Overreach (n.) The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.

Web :: Web (n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc..

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..

Sheely :: Sheely (n.) Same as Sheelfa.

Depth :: Depth (n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

Lotto :: Lotto (n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno..

Peritrochium :: Peritrochium (n.) The wheel which, together with the axle, forms the axis in peritrochio, which see under Axis..

Spoke :: Spoke (n.) The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly..

Odometer :: Odometer (n.) An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed..

Shiel :: Shiel (n.) A sheeling.

Balance :: Balance (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary)..

Catherine Wheel :: Catherine wheel () Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.

Revolve :: Revolve (v. i.) To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense..

Wheeler :: Wheeler (n.) A worker on sewed muslin.

Skip :: Skip (n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine..

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..

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