1. A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the center.

2. Something that rotates like a wheel or or has a wheel as its principal part or characteristic, as:

3. A large, roughly circular block of cheese.

4. A wheel-shaped instrument on which victims were bound for torture and execution in medieval and early modern Europe.

5. wheels Forces that provide energy, movement, or direction: the wheels of commerce.

6. The act or process of turning; revolution or rotation.

7. A military maneuver executed in order to change the direction of movement of a formation, as of troops or ships, in which the formation is maintained while the outer unit describes an arc and the inner or center unit remains stationary as a pivot.

8. wheels Slang A motor vehicle or access thereto: Do you have wheels tonight?

9. Slang A person with a great deal of power or influence: a wheel in state government.

1. To roll, move, or transport on wheels or a wheel.

2. To cause to turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.

3. To provide with wheels or a wheel.

1. To turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.

2. To roll or move on or as if on wheels or a wheel.

3. To fly in a curving or circular course: A flock of gulls wheeled just above the dock.

4. To turn or whirl around in place; pivot: "The boy wheeled and the fried eggs leaped from his tray" (Ivan Gold).

5. To reverse one's opinion or practice: Don't be surprised if the boss wheels about on that idea.