wheelingn.

Brit.

/ˈwiːlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)wilɪŋ/

Etymology: < wheel v. + -ing suffix¹.

The action of wheel v., in various senses.

a. Turning or revolution about an axis or centre; rotation. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > rotation as a wheel

turna1325

weltering1423

wheeling1483

circumduction1578

revolution1592

circumgyration1603

circumrotation1656

wheelerya1845

1483 Earl Rivers Ball. 6 in Ritson Anc. Songs (1877) 150 This world being Of such whelyng Me contrarieng.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiii. 223 The wheelings about of the Skye.

1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 269 As the firmament is still mouing and working, so vncessant is the wheeling and rolling on of our braines.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 318 All Rotations and Wheelings cause a kind of Giddiness in the Brain.

1773 A. Grant Let. 24 May in Lett. from Mountains (1806) I. 116 The ‘boiling’ and ‘wheeling’ of the waters below.

b. Military. (See wheel v. 3.) Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [noun] > wheeling

wheeling1622

wheela1660

overwheel1796

1622 ‘Jack Dawe’ Vox Graculi 38 What wheelings, what windings, what summoning to parlees.

1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 22 Wheeling (as by conversion or turning to either hand).

1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 22 In division wheelings, the whole keep closed lightly towards the hand they wheel to, and must avoid pressing the pivot man off his ground.

1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry ii. 10 Wheeling should at first be practised in single rank.

1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. 20 The Wheeling Step, or March, is 120 steps of 30 inches each, or 300 feet in a minute.

1894 Outing 24 236/1 The wheelings and dress are fully equal to the best regular regiments.

c. A turning aside or in a different direction, deviation; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun]

wentc1374

turning1426

turnagain1545

wrench1549

yaw1597

veer1611

veering1611

version1625

wheelinga1660

sway1818

whiffle1842

twizzle1848

split-turn1932

a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 182 His unconstant whilinges to Ormond.

a1711 T. Ken Anodynes in Wks. (1721) III. 431 I sooner cou'd of shifting Wind, The Rise, Recess, and Wheelings find, Than of my heart detect the Wiles.

d. Motion (or transferred extension) in a circle or curve; circling, circuitous movement; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun]

wheel1604

wheeling1674

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 24 After all this wheeling about, we are not a step further than we were.

1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 15 A different dip or declivity of the strata, which is occasioned by the waving and wheeling of the strata.

1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xvi. 101 We had been watching the wheelings and flittings of a flock of prairie hens.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxx. 252 The hovering and wheeling of Grandcourt's caprice.

e. Conveyance of something in a wheelbarrow or the like; travelling in a wheeled vehicle, or (colloquial) on a bicycle or tricycle; also, the condition of a road suitable for the passage of (wheeled) vehicles. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle

wheel-carriage1733

wheeling1805

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle > conditions suitable for

wheeling1863

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > condition suitable for

wheeling1873

society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun]

bicycling1869

cycling1878

wheeling1882

biking1883

pushbiking1926

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 113 When stones can be got within a wheeling distance, or about sixty or seventy yards.

1850 L. Sawyer Jrnl. 3 July in Way Sketches (1926) v. 81 Our road lay over deep barren sand, which rendered the wheeling very difficult.

1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. ii. 52 The January thaw..gives us bare hills and wheeling.

1873 ‘G. Hamilton’ Twelve Miles ii. 25 He told her he would give her a sleigh-ride when it came wheeling.

1882 Prospectus Cycle Touring Club The encouragement of all that is admirable in the art of wheeling.

1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 727/2 Travelling in the saddle was..a necessity, wheeling is now everywhere easy.

f. Furnishing or fitting with a wheel or wheels.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > furnishing or fitting with

wheeling1661

1661 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 334 Stocking and wheeling of the same [sc. bells].

1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 120 Far more suitable for amateurs than building or ‘wheeling’ as it is termed.

1898 Daily News 21 Feb. 6/5 The gearing and wheeling of the cars.

g. Needlework. The making or working of ‘wheels’: see wheel n. 9a(a); attributive as in wheeling stitch, yarn, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > other types of embroidery > action of

sprigging1714

squiggling1804

wheeling1808

veining1814

darning1882

saddle stitching1902

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [adjective] > embroidered > with specific pattern > pattern

clocked1712

acanthine1753

wheeling1862

cloxed1882

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > for specific purpose

bastinga1637

wheeling1880

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Wheelin, coarse worsted.

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4032 Fingering, lambs-wool, and wheeling hosiery.

1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 29 Wheeling yarn.

†h. Torturing or ‘breaking’ on a wheel. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > on the wheel

wheeling1611

breaking1722

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ff6^v The fifth and last punishment is wheeling, which is onely for murderers.

i. The process of shaping or forming something by means of a wheel; in quots. attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > types of shaping process

moulding1327

turningc1440

turnerya1680

turnery work1744

steam-bending1835

wheeling1882

fabrication1926

hot moulding1935

tableting1947

micromachining1955

1882 Standard 16 Sept. 8/2 Brickmakers' plant and stock, comprising..iron wheeling plates.

1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 2/4 Tin and Iron-plate workers, &c... Wireing, Swaging and Wheeling Machines.

j. wheeling and dealing: see wheel and deal v. Also wheeling-dealing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun]

compassinga1300

contrivingc1330

undermining1433

imagininga1449

engininga1450

practising?1545

machinationc1550

packing1587

plotting1593

contrival1602

managing1607

tamperinga1627

practicking1640

texturea1641

contrivance1647

briguing1657

intrigue1668

intriguing1801

policizing1809

scheming1813

intriguery1815

schemery1822

plottery1823

shenanigan1855

game playing1916

shenaniganning1924

wheeler-dealing1968

wheeling and dealing1969

wheeling-dealing1973

the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [adjective]

compassingc1440

practising1556

plotting1592

contrivinga1616

intriguing1682

plotful1732

machinating1751

policizing1825

scheming1838

intriguant1897

wheeling-dealing1973

1973 Guardian 21 June 2/3 The cliché of the moment is that Mr Brezhnev is..a sort of wheeling-dealing glad~hander.

1977 Guardian Weekly 28 Aug. 22/4 The wheeling~dealing that went on within the tribunal when it came to considering the verdicts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wheelingadj.

Brit.

/ˈwiːlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)wilɪŋ/

Etymology: < wheel v. + -ing suffix².

That wheels, in various senses.

a. Turning like a wheel; revolving about an axis; rotating, rolling, whirling, swirling. Also figurative of a recurring or ‘revolving’ period of time.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > rotating as a wheel

wheeling1635

wheely?a1650

rotative1776

the world > time > period > cycle of time > [adjective] > revolving

revolute?a1475

overturning1532

orby?1609

revolving1612

rolling1656

wheeling1725

1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox sig. Y4 Wheeling streames like edie tides.

1636 W. Cartwright Royall Slave v. ii Hemm'd in on every side With Beauties, which his wheeling eye runs o're All in a Minute.

1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 65 Where the deep transported mind may soare Above the wheeling poles.

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. ii With Patience then I'll wait each wheeling Year.

1745 E. Young Consolation 64 What Arm Almighty, put these wheeling Globes In Motion?

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vi. 168 The deep and wheeling stream of the river.

b. Military. (See wheel v. 3) wheeling flank, the outward flank in wheeling, which describes the largest curve.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [adjective] > wheeling

wheeling1796

society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [noun] > wheeling > wheeling flank

wheeling flank1796

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > wing or flank

wingc1400

horn1533

out-wingc1540

flank1548

point1550

sleeve1574

left1693

right1694

pivot flank1786

reverse flank1792

wheeling flank1796

1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 56 An officer or under officer from the wheeling flank..of each squadron.

1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 24 The outward wheeling man steps the usual pace of 30 inches.

c. Turning round or aside; changing direction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective]

turning1495

veering1605

wheeling1716

sheering1896

1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 53 As he to Flight his wheeling Car addrest.

1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) iii. 117 The pilots..Still with the wheeling stern their force repel.

1882 ‘Ouida’ Bimbi vi. 186 He endeavoured to soothe his fretting and wheeling beast.

d. Moving, or executed as a movement, in a circle or similar curve; circling. †In first quot., wandering about, roving.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [adjective]

wheelinga1616

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering

wanderingc1000

erringa1340

waggeringa1382

vagant1382

vagabond1426

erroneousa1464

fugitive1481

wavering1487

vagrantc1522

gadding1545

roaming1566

roving1576

straggling1589

rambling?1609

wagand1614

wheelinga1616

gadling1616

vagring1619

erratical1620

vaguing1627

erratic1656

planetical1656

waif1724

vagrarious1795

stravaiging1825

vagarious1882

pirooting1958

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. i. 138 Tying her Dutie, Beautie, Wit, and Fortunes In an extrauagant, and wheeling Stranger.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 263 We are faine to use a wheeling-stride, and go as it were in orbe.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 Dark as a Cloud they make a wheeling Flight.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 149 Happy he! who tops the wheeling chace.

1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno iii. 93 Around whose eyes glared wheeling flames.

1827 J. Keble Christian Year II. lx. 76 The wheeling kite's wild solitary cry.

1905 F. Treves Other Side of Lantern ii. xxii. 142 Pigeons sweep round this square in wheeling flocks.

e. Moving on wheels.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [adjective]

rollinga1450

wheeling1596

wheeleda1616

1596 J. Davies Orchestra cxv. sig. C6 A wheeling Cart.

1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 21 Goe harnesse straight my wheeling chaire.

1773 Lady M. Coke Jrnl. 22 Aug. (1896) IV. 225 He was placed in a wheeling chair, as he has not the use of his legs.

1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Apr. 907/2 A new stretcher, which could be used either as a light portable or as a wheeling stretcher.

Derivatives

ˈwheelingly adv. rare on wheels.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [adverb] > on wheels

wheelingly1611

a-wheelsa1637

awheel1944

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words A ruóta, wheelingly.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wheeling
释义	wheelingn. Brit. /ˈwiːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wilɪŋ/ Etymology: < wheel v. + -ing suffix¹. The action of wheel v., in various senses. a. Turning or revolution about an axis or centre; rotation. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > rotation as a wheel turna1325 weltering1423 wheeling1483 circumduction1578 revolution1592 circumgyration1603 circumrotation1656 wheelerya1845 1483 Earl Rivers Ball. 6 in Ritson Anc. Songs (1877) 150 This world being Of such whelyng Me contrarieng. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiii. 223 The wheelings about of the Skye. 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 269 As the firmament is still mouing and working, so vncessant is the wheeling and rolling on of our braines. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 318 All Rotations and Wheelings cause a kind of Giddiness in the Brain. 1773 A. Grant Let. 24 May in Lett. from Mountains (1806) I. 116 The ‘boiling’ and ‘wheeling’ of the waters below. b. Military. (See wheel v. 3.) Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [noun] > wheeling wheeling1622 wheela1660 overwheel1796 1622 ‘Jack Dawe’ Vox Graculi 38 What wheelings, what windings, what summoning to parlees. 1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 22 Wheeling (as by conversion or turning to either hand). 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 22 In division wheelings, the whole keep closed lightly towards the hand they wheel to, and must avoid pressing the pivot man off his ground. 1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry ii. 10 Wheeling should at first be practised in single rank. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. 20 The Wheeling Step, or March, is 120 steps of 30 inches each, or 300 feet in a minute. 1894 Outing 24 236/1 The wheelings and dress are fully equal to the best regular regiments. c. A turning aside or in a different direction, deviation; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] wentc1374 turning1426 turnagain1545 wrench1549 yaw1597 veer1611 veering1611 version1625 wheelinga1660 sway1818 whiffle1842 twizzle1848 split-turn1932 a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 182 His unconstant whilinges to Ormond. a1711 T. Ken Anodynes in Wks. (1721) III. 431 I sooner cou'd of shifting Wind, The Rise, Recess, and Wheelings find, Than of my heart detect the Wiles. d. Motion (or transferred extension) in a circle or curve; circling, circuitous movement; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] wheel1604 wheeling1674 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 24 After all this wheeling about, we are not a step further than we were. 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 15 A different dip or declivity of the strata, which is occasioned by the waving and wheeling of the strata. 1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xvi. 101 We had been watching the wheelings and flittings of a flock of prairie hens. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxx. 252 The hovering and wheeling of Grandcourt's caprice. e. Conveyance of something in a wheelbarrow or the like; travelling in a wheeled vehicle, or (colloquial) on a bicycle or tricycle; also, the condition of a road suitable for the passage of (wheeled) vehicles. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle wheel-carriage1733 wheeling1805 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle > conditions suitable for wheeling1863 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > condition suitable for wheeling1873 society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] bicycling1869 cycling1878 wheeling1882 biking1883 pushbiking1926 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 113 When stones can be got within a wheeling distance, or about sixty or seventy yards. 1850 L. Sawyer Jrnl. 3 July in Way Sketches (1926) v. 81 Our road lay over deep barren sand, which rendered the wheeling very difficult. 1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. ii. 52 The January thaw..gives us bare hills and wheeling. 1873 ‘G. Hamilton’ Twelve Miles ii. 25 He told her he would give her a sleigh-ride when it came wheeling. 1882 Prospectus Cycle Touring Club The encouragement of all that is admirable in the art of wheeling. 1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 727/2 Travelling in the saddle was..a necessity, wheeling is now everywhere easy. f. Furnishing or fitting with a wheel or wheels. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > furnishing or fitting with wheeling1661 1661 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 334 Stocking and wheeling of the same [sc. bells]. 1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 120 Far more suitable for amateurs than building or ‘wheeling’ as it is termed. 1898 Daily News 21 Feb. 6/5 The gearing and wheeling of the cars. g. Needlework. The making or working of ‘wheels’: see wheel n. 9a(a); attributive as in wheeling stitch, yarn, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > other types of embroidery > action of sprigging1714 squiggling1804 wheeling1808 veining1814 darning1882 saddle stitching1902 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [adjective] > embroidered > with specific pattern > pattern clocked1712 acanthine1753 wheeling1862 cloxed1882 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > for specific purpose bastinga1637 wheeling1880 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Wheelin, coarse worsted. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4032 Fingering, lambs-wool, and wheeling hosiery. 1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 29 Wheeling yarn. †h. Torturing or ‘breaking’ on a wheel. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > on the wheel wheeling1611 breaking1722 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ff6^v The fifth and last punishment is wheeling, which is onely for murderers. i. The process of shaping or forming something by means of a wheel; in quots. attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > types of shaping process moulding1327 turningc1440 turnerya1680 turnery work1744 steam-bending1835 wheeling1882 fabrication1926 hot moulding1935 tableting1947 micromachining1955 1882 Standard 16 Sept. 8/2 Brickmakers' plant and stock, comprising..iron wheeling plates. 1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 2/4 Tin and Iron-plate workers, &c... Wireing, Swaging and Wheeling Machines. j. wheeling and dealing: see wheel and deal v. Also wheeling-dealing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] compassinga1300 contrivingc1330 undermining1433 imagininga1449 engininga1450 practising?1545 machinationc1550 packing1587 plotting1593 contrival1602 managing1607 tamperinga1627 practicking1640 texturea1641 contrivance1647 briguing1657 intrigue1668 intriguing1801 policizing1809 scheming1813 intriguery1815 schemery1822 plottery1823 shenanigan1855 game playing1916 shenaniganning1924 wheeler-dealing1968 wheeling and dealing1969 wheeling-dealing1973 the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [adjective] compassingc1440 practising1556 plotting1592 contrivinga1616 intriguing1682 plotful1732 machinating1751 policizing1825 scheming1838 intriguant1897 wheeling-dealing1973 1973 Guardian 21 June 2/3 The cliché of the moment is that Mr Brezhnev is..a sort of wheeling-dealing glad~hander. 1977 Guardian Weekly 28 Aug. 22/4 The wheeling~dealing that went on within the tribunal when it came to considering the verdicts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wheelingadj. Brit. /ˈwiːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wilɪŋ/ Etymology: < wheel v. + -ing suffix². That wheels, in various senses. a. Turning like a wheel; revolving about an axis; rotating, rolling, whirling, swirling. Also figurative of a recurring or ‘revolving’ period of time. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > rotating as a wheel wheeling1635 wheely?a1650 rotative1776 the world > time > period > cycle of time > [adjective] > revolving revolute?a1475 overturning1532 orby?1609 revolving1612 rolling1656 wheeling1725 1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox sig. Y4 Wheeling streames like edie tides. 1636 W. Cartwright Royall Slave v. ii Hemm'd in on every side With Beauties, which his wheeling eye runs o're All in a Minute. 1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 65 Where the deep transported mind may soare Above the wheeling poles. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. ii With Patience then I'll wait each wheeling Year. 1745 E. Young Consolation 64 What Arm Almighty, put these wheeling Globes In Motion? 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vi. 168 The deep and wheeling stream of the river. b. Military. (See wheel v. 3) wheeling flank, the outward flank in wheeling, which describes the largest curve. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [adjective] > wheeling wheeling1796 society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [noun] > wheeling > wheeling flank wheeling flank1796 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > wing or flank wingc1400 horn1533 out-wingc1540 flank1548 point1550 sleeve1574 left1693 right1694 pivot flank1786 reverse flank1792 wheeling flank1796 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 56 An officer or under officer from the wheeling flank..of each squadron. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 24 The outward wheeling man steps the usual pace of 30 inches. c. Turning round or aside; changing direction. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective] turning1495 veering1605 wheeling1716 sheering1896 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 53 As he to Flight his wheeling Car addrest. 1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) iii. 117 The pilots..Still with the wheeling stern their force repel. 1882 ‘Ouida’ Bimbi vi. 186 He endeavoured to soothe his fretting and wheeling beast. d. Moving, or executed as a movement, in a circle or similar curve; circling. †In first quot., wandering about, roving. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [adjective] wheelinga1616 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering wanderingc1000 erringa1340 waggeringa1382 vagant1382 vagabond1426 erroneousa1464 fugitive1481 wavering1487 vagrantc1522 gadding1545 roaming1566 roving1576 straggling1589 rambling?1609 wagand1614 wheelinga1616 gadling1616 vagring1619 erratical1620 vaguing1627 erratic1656 planetical1656 waif1724 vagrarious1795 stravaiging1825 vagarious1882 pirooting1958 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. i. 138 Tying her Dutie, Beautie, Wit, and Fortunes In an extrauagant, and wheeling Stranger. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 263 We are faine to use a wheeling-stride, and go as it were in orbe. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 Dark as a Cloud they make a wheeling Flight. View more context for this quotation 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 149 Happy he! who tops the wheeling chace. 1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno iii. 93 Around whose eyes glared wheeling flames. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year II. lx. 76 The wheeling kite's wild solitary cry. 1905 F. Treves Other Side of Lantern ii. xxii. 142 Pigeons sweep round this square in wheeling flocks. e. Moving on wheels. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [adjective] rollinga1450 wheeling1596 wheeleda1616 1596 J. Davies Orchestra cxv. sig. C6 A wheeling Cart. 1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 21 Goe harnesse straight my wheeling chaire. 1773 Lady M. Coke Jrnl. 22 Aug. (1896) IV. 225 He was placed in a wheeling chair, as he has not the use of his legs. 1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Apr. 907/2 A new stretcher, which could be used either as a light portable or as a wheeling stretcher. Derivatives ˈwheelingly adv. rare on wheels. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [adverb] > on wheels wheelingly1611 a-wheelsa1637 awheel1944 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words A ruóta, wheelingly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1483adj.1596
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