单词 | wheel |
释义 | wheeln. I. A circular structure which revolves on an axle. 1. A circular frame of wood, metal, or other hard substance (sometimes in the form of a solid disc, but usually of a ring (rim or felloe) with spokes radiating from the central part or nave) attached or capable of being attached at its centre to an axle around which it revolves; used, in many different forms and sizes, for communicating, facilitating, or equalizing motion, and for other purposes. a. In a vehicle, plough, locomotive engine, etc., each of two or more such appliances which support it and, by rolling upon the ground or other surface, enable it to move along with the least possible friction. at or in the wheel, of horses, next to the carriage, in the place of the wheelers (see wheeler n. 3) as opposed to the leaders. on the wheel, on wheels, riding in wheeled vehicles. (See also 13b.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel wheelc888 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. §7 Swa swa on wænes eaxe hwearfiað þa hweol. a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 26 Dec. 8 An plegende cild arn under wænes hweowol ond wearð sona dead. c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 270 Se firmamentum went on ðam twam steorran swa swa hweogel [v.rr. hweogul, hweowul] tyrnð on eaxe. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 262 Helyes hweoles þe weren ifurene. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8437 An quointe tour hii lete make..Vpe four woeles..it was idriue. c1315 Shoreham iv. 223 Me makeþ prynses Þe host to gouerni, And ase whewelen þe linses To-gadere heldeþ hy. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21267 I sal tell..Quat mai be yock, and quat quele [Fairf. quile, Trin. Cambr. wheel] mai be, Bridel quat es, and quat axeltre. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 118 He rydez in a chariot with foure whelez. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iv In Kent they haue other maner of plowes, some goo with wheles as they do in many other places. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 55 Hoy out (sir carter) the hog fro the wheele. 1599 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 9 Two turfe waynes furnished wth whiles axeltries. a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 185 The bouand dolphin, tumbland lik a vhele. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 490 They..have moving houses built on wheeles. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 41 Smack went the whip, round went the wheels. 1820 A. Sutherland St. Kathleen III. 216 It widna be Christian-like to stay cosie at hame, an' a' the countryside on the Wheel. 1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 223 Noble lords were now and again to be seen following the chase on wheels. 1884 J. E. T. Rogers Six Cent. Work & Wages 23 Plain wheels—that is, wheels formed from the trunk of a tree, with holes bored through them for the axles to run on. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xiii Three leaders and a pair of great upstanding half-bred horses at the wheel. 1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs II. 298 I took my tarantass with five horses attached, three in the wheel and two leaders. b. Generally, in machinery or mechanical apparatus of any kind. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] wheela1100 trendle1324 trindle?c1343 strindlec1500 follower1805 driver1819 dial wheel1841 a1100 Aldhelm Glosses i. 502 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 15/1 Rota hauritoria, hlædtrendle, hweowla, hweowl. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 600 Panus, virgula illa circa quam trama involvitur. Idem et canellus dicitur, a Quele. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 696/10 Hoc vertubrum, a whelle. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 260 A carte-qweel, drye & vngrecyd, cryeth lowdest of oþere qwelys. 1479–81 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 101 Nayle to amende the whele of the Sanctus bell. 1483 Cath. Angl. 415/2 A Wheylle of A drawe wele, anclea. 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 189 Wheles for to wynde up the Mayne Sayle. 1516 Stratton Churchwardens' Accts. in Archœologia 46 204 A new whefyll for the gret bell. 1545 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 21 A while to the secounde tenor. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 47 Whereby they should faile to strike iust vpon the wheeles being fire-lockes. 1616 T. Scot Philomythie sig. I4 Some wheels were taken off..And some stood vselesse, so the Clock was spoild. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. iii. 59 A curious engine compounded of wheels screws and pulleys whereby a lady with a single hair of her head might raise a stone of two hundred weight. 1803 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 354 Before you enter the [silk-]manufactory you pass an immense wheel; by that one 99,947 other wheels are all turn'd. 1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 4th Ser. 185 Other wheel and pinion work..modifies this motion. c. wheel and axle (also †axis), as one of the mechanical powers: see power n.1 13. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > others polancre1356 spindle1398 wrest1584 handscrew?1660 sea-crab1689 lewis1743 crab1753 wheel and axle (also axis)1773 tippler1831 fall1834 outrigger hoist1835 lewisson1842 power hoist1869 tipper1870 lifting screw1885 powerlifter1909 bucket chain1911 bracket-crab- society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > parts which provide power > [noun] > mechanical powers > one of screw1570 lever1648 wedge1648 peritrochium1704 wheel and axle (also axis)1773 1773 W. Emerson Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) 284 Wheel and axle, a machine to raise weights. One of the mechanic powers. 1799 J. Wood Princ. Mech. (ed. 2) iv. 63 The wheel and axle consists of two parts, a cylinder AB moveable about it's axis CD, and a circle EF so attached to the cylinder that the axis CD passes through it's center, and is perpendicular to it's plane. 1821 Turner's Easy Introd. Arts & Sci. (ed. 18) 85 In using the wheel and axis as the weight is raised, the rope coils round the axis and enlarges the diameter, hence the advantage of the power is diminished. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iii. §56. 209 The advance from the lever to the wheel-and-axle is an advance from a simple agent to an agent made up of several simple ones. d. With prefixed defining words indicating kind, structure, use, etc.There are numerous compounds, as cartwheel n., cog-wheel n., driving wheel n., fly-wheel n., etc., etc. fifth wheel, idle wheel: see fifth adj. 1c, Compounds 1, idle adj. 5b. II. A wheel or wheel-like structure, or an instrument or appliance having a wheel as its essential part, used for some specific purpose. 2. a. A large wheel, or contrivance resembling one, used in various ways as an instrument of torture or punishment. to break on the wheel: see to break on the wheel at break v. 7b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > wheel wheelc888 rat1481 rote1526 row1557 torture-wheel1837 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxv. §7 Þæt unstille hweol ðe Ixion wæs to gebunden. c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xiv. 86 Het se arleasa casere gebindan georium on anum bradum hweowle. a1225 Leg. Kath. 1965 Ha schal beon tohwiðeret, wið þe hweoles swa, in an hondhwile. c1290 St. George 58 in S. Eng. Leg. 295 So sone ase huy þis guode man a-boue þusse ȝweole brouȝte, Þat ȝweol to-brac. c1450 Mirk's Festial 134 A whele set full of howkes yn þat on syde of þe whele, and swerde poyntys in þat oþyr syde aȝeyne þat. c1480 (a1400) St. George 545 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 191 Þare brocht wes a quhele made awfule & hye, & in it hade sharpe swerdis scherand in al syde. 1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 111 By the same iudgement was Ponifre..broken vpon a wheele. 1608 T. Dekker Dead Tearme sig. A3v As if hee were a Male-factor, and hadde beene tortured on the Germaine Wheele. 1709–10 J. Addison Tatler No. 133. ⁋3 To rescue him from the Ignominy of the Wheel. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 22 The lifted ax, the agonizing wheel. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. xvi. 337 He was swoln like a corpse three days exposed on the wheel. b. wheel of Ixion (Astronomy): see quot. 1590. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Corona Australis South Crown1556 wheel of Ixion1590 Southern Crown1594 1590 T. Hood Vse Celestial Globe f. 39v Corona Austrina, the South garland..Others call it the wheele of Ixion. 3. Various mechanical contrivances. a. The revolving part of a turning-lathe, or of a potter's lathe (potter's wheel: see potter's wheel n. at potter n.1 Compounds 2a); also allusively, as in on the wheel = in process of being fashioned, in the making. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > potter's lathe > horizontal wheel of wheela1382 potter's wheel1609 whirling-table1764 throwing table1855 slow wheel1925 the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > in progress [phrase] in handc1405 in expeditiona1616 on (also upon) the anvil1645 on the wheel1677 in progress1849 in the works1870 in process1906 in the pipeline1945 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xviii. 3 And Y cam doun in to the hous of the crockere, and lo! he made a werc vp on a whel. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. v. sig. Rijv As well proportioned as if it had ben made of a tourners hande, at his wheele. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra i. xviii. 153 While they are upon the Wheel (as a Potters Vessel in the Prophet) they are often marred. 1695 J. Sage Fund. Charter Presbytery (1697) 9 Our Reformation was on the Wheel. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pottery The Wheel and Lathe are the Chief, almost the only Instruments, used in Pottery. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 39 Potters..have their wheel at hand, that they may work a little when they please. b. = mill-wheel n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > wheel used to drive mill mill-wheelOE wheelc1400 breast wheel1744 whirl-wheel1853 c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. xxv. 30 The whele of a mylle lyghtly torneth alwey to ther that he bygan. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. x For the swyftnesse of the water he must nedes passe vnder the whele of the mylle. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem i. 115 b Of ane milne and ane man slane with the quheill thereof. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter viii, in Poems (new ed.) 37 The dark round of the dripping wheel. c. = spinning-wheel n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > spinning wheel spinning-wheel1404 turna1425 wheel1467 1467 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 43, No. 14) vii cusshones, 1 whyll, 1 par cardarum, 1 hemper. c1525 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 10 Item j qwele, j par of kayrds, j rakyncrok, xijd. 1617 in W. F. Shaw Mem. Eastry (1870) 229 One payer of wollen cards two wollen whiles. 1651 J. Nicoll Diary (1836) 61 Sum pure pepill quha wer spyning that day loist thair quheillis and wer brokin. 1729 P. Walkden Diary 23 Oct. (1866) (modernized text) 57 A Jersey wheel to wind spoyles on. 1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life iv. 32 My wife had a good wheel, and knowed exactly how to use it. 1890 E. S. Hartland Sci. Fairy Tales (1891) i. 7 The women at their wheels; and while they spin they sing love ditties. d. = tread-wheel n.; also, a treadmill. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > horse- or walk-mill horse-mill1530 wheel1623 apple mill1654 walk mill1773 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > steady, continuous, or dull > situation or cause of horse-mill1621 wheel1623 treadmill1822 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > tread tread-wheelc1573 wheel1623 tympanum1889 activity wheel1929 1623 J. Taylor New Discouery by Sea A 6 In a Wheele I saw a comely Asse..draw as it were from the infernall pit..So..coole a water. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 108 Envy is..a Vice which they say which keeps no Holy-days, but is always in the Wheel, and working upon its own Disquiet. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 23 To climb daily Life's worn wheel, Which draws up nothing new? 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 22 Mar. (1941) 36 [It]..makes one feel like a dog in a wheel, always moving and never advancing. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 296 He positively refused to work on the wheel, so after many trials, I was compelled to order him into solitary confinement. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > musical box > [noun] > barrel-organ > parts of barrel1659 musical wheel1659 1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 28 Let there be a Musical Wheel..so when the said water Wheel shall turn it shall cause the Musical Wheel to turn. f. An instrument for measuring distances: = perambulator n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring distances > distance travelled waywiser1651 perambulator1688 wheel1696 walking wheel1701 odometer1702 pedometer1723 pedometer1728 podometer1728 reel measure1803 viameter1845 roadometer1848 trocheameter1857 trechometer1858 cyclometer1880 pedimeter1890 passometer1902 sledge-meter1902 speedometer1929 mileometer1953 1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 319 One by the Wheel was Sixteen Perches round, another in walking Seventy six Paces. 1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. iii. 7 Some Surveyors measure their Distances by a Wheel. g. = grinding-wheel n. at grinding n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > polishing or sharpening grindle stonec1400 grindstone1404 glazier1688 wheel1707 grinding-wheel1791 glaze-wheel1853 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 433 Running at the Grinder, [he] made him quit his Wheel. 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 289 The blades, after being hardened, are directly carried to the grinding-mill, or wheel, as the establishment is called. h. Nautical, etc. = steering wheel n. at steering n. Compounds 2. Now usually of the steering-wheel of a motor vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > steering equipment > [noun] > helm > wheel wheel1743 steering wheel1750 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > steering, suspension, or wheels > steering wheel wheel1906 steering wheel1907 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 8 There broke a Sea in the Ship, which carried me over the Wheel. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxiii. 414 It took two men at the wheel to steer her. 1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xxxiii Most of the people were below, and the few on deck were clustered near the wheel. 1906 C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Car of Destiny xxxiii Taking the wheel himself,..he backed the big, reddish-brown car off the barricade. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. ii. 67 For the next hour she sat at the wheel under his tuition. 1972 T. P. McMahon Issue of Bishop's Blood (1973) xvi. 229 The long-haul truckers drove themselves right into a ditch after too many hours at the wheel. i. = paddle wheel n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > paddle-wheel paddle wheel1685 waterwheel1787 paddle1833 wheel1842 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water waterwheel1408 flood-wheel1515 breast wheel1744 overshot1760 undershot wheel1760 breast-shot1775 bucket-wheel1797 tub-wheel1815 flutter-wheel1817 danaide1825 wheel1842 reaction waterwheel1847 reaction wheel1852 tide-wheel1864 hurdy-gurdy1868 stream-wheel1875 paddle wheela1884 Pelton1885 turbine-pump1900 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. i. 19 The two great wheels turn fiercely round for the first time; and the noble ship..breaks proudly through the..water. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > parts of monastery > [noun] > turnstile wheel14.. the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > turnstile wheel14.. turnpike1545 whirl-gate1550 turning-stile1611 turnstilea1643 turning-wheel1669 moulinet1706 tourniquet1706 turnabout1805 turn-gate1905 14.. in Aungier Syon (1840) 257 The kepers of the wheyles, grates, gates, or entres into the clausures. a1652 R. Brome City Wit iii. i. sig. C7v, in Five New Playes (1653) He never sung to the wheele in Saint Brides Nunnery yonder. 1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xxxi. 192 I wished him to go, and put up a Wheele, and a Grate, in the House appointed for the Nuns dwelling. 5. In full wheel of fortune (see sense 12a): = lottery wheel n. at lottery n. Compounds 2. Also allusively. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > wheels, etc. Ragman rollc1450 luck in a bag1649 wheel1698 lottery wheel1739 1698 Post Boy 3 Jan. in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1422 We have divers wheels agoing. 1750 in New Jersey Archives (1895) 1st Ser. XII. 640 The [Lottery] Ticketts will be putting into the wheels on Wednesday. 1763 Brit. Mag. 4 548 Beware the Wheel of Fortune—'tis a gin, You'll lose a dozen times for once you win. a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) ii. 35 I believe Toby will hardly thank me for going into the wheel. 1801 T. Moore To the Large & Beaut. Miss —— 4 But how comes it that you, such a capital prize, Should so long have remained in the wheel? 1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 167 Stalls, provided with wheels-of-fortune, at which the Norman lass boldly ventures her solid sous for empty hopes. 1880 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 4) 121 Wheel-of-fortune men, offering to make all rich in a jiffie. 6. a. A rotatory firework in the form of a wheel. See also Catherine wheel n. 3, pinwheel n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > rotating or Catherine wheel firewheel1607 wheel1629 sun1741 sun wheel1749 Catherine wheel1761 pinwheel1765 spur-fire1765 cartwheel1840 1629 F. Malthus tr. Treat. Artific. Fire-works xvii. 110 How to make Girondells or fierie Wheeles. 1633 tr. Math. Recreations 272 (heading) How to make Wheels of fire. 1830 E. Herbert in Comic Ann. 38 Wheels whiz—smash crackers—serpents twist. b. wheel of colour: = chromatrope n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > science of colour > [noun] > instruments combining colours colour circle1854 colour top1855 chromatrope1860 colour box1870 wheel of colour1877 colour organ1881 colour wheel1909 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for observing > [noun] > thaumatrope phenakistoscope1834 kalotrope1846 wheel of life1872 wheel of colour1877 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > magic lantern show > slide slider?1793 magic lantern slide1802 slide1819 hyalotype1851 chromatrope1860 zoetrope1866 lantern slide1871 photo-hyalotype1875 wheel of colour1877 lantern-photograph1884 diapositive1893 1877 J. G. Wood Optics in Nature's Teachings ii. 306 The Chromatrope, or Wheel of Colour. c. wheel of life n. = zoetrope n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > optical and scientific toys > [noun] multiplying-glass1639 Cartesian devil1731 kaleidoscope1817 myriorama1823 thaumatrope1827 bottle imp1833 phantasmascope1833 phenakistoscope1834 stroboscope1836 anorthoscope1842 tantalus-cup1842 phantascope1851 phantoscope1861 Pharaoh's serpent1863 phosphoroscope1866 zoetrope1866 wheel of life1872 praxinoscope1878 zoopraxiscope1881 phantoscope1894 Newton's cradle1971 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for observing > [noun] > thaumatrope phenakistoscope1834 kalotrope1846 wheel of life1872 wheel of colour1877 1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) x. 245 The curious toy called the thaumatrope or ‘Zootrope’ or ‘wheel of life’. 7. a. Originally and esp. U.S. A bicycle or tricycle; also abstract (with definite article) the practice of riding on one, cycling; (with indefinite article) a cycle-ride. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > practice or advocacy of bicyclism1870 wheel1880 pedal power1944 society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > a bicycle-ride wheel1880 dink1934 backie1985 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle machine1823 cycle1870 iron (also steam) horse1874 wheel1880 cycle1881 1880 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 483/1 A few possessors of the birotate chariot, numbering some forty odd, enjoyed a ‘wheel around the Hub’. 1882 Wheelman 1 13 ‘I love my wheel,’ he said, ‘as the yachtsman loves his boat.’ 1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 305/1 The wheel was a new thing in New York ways. 1888 P. Furnivall Physical Training 3 I am more accustomed to the wheel than the pen. 1893 Outing 22 140/2 It would have been a most lovely wheel had we chosen to explore it on bicycles. 1896 H. G. Wells Wheels of Chance vii Hoopdriver..felt a pleasing sense of having duly asserted the wide sympathy that binds all cyclists together, of having behaved himself as becomes one of the brotherhood of the wheel. b. to be on someone's wheel: to be close behind someone, to be on his track; to put pressure on someone (to do something). slang (chiefly Australian). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade [verb (intransitive)] > pressurize to put (also keep) the screw (also screws) on1659 to crowd the mourners1842 to bring pressure to bear1853 to put (also bring, exert) pressure on1853 pressure1922 to be on someone's wheel1941 to twist (someone's) arm1953 the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow behind [verb (intransitive)] > follow closely to tread on any one's heels or toesc1384 hang?a1513 dog1519 tag1676 to be on someone's tail1925 to be on someone's wheel1941 1941 V. Davis Phenomena in Crime vi. 78 Don't come here if there's a busy on your wheel! 1954 V. Kelly Shadow 89 Down there the cops'll give you a go. Here they're on your wheel all the time. 1959 A. Upfield Bony & Mouse 104 I'll be ready for it. I'm going to be right on Tony's wheel when it happens. 1969 O. White Under Iron Rainbow 118 The inspector's been on my wheel to trace him. c. plural. A car. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] buggy1888 motor vehicle1890 motor carriage1894 autocar1895 jam jar1895 motor car1895 car1896 traction1896 motor1899 bubble1901 machine1901 Lizzie1913 buzz-wagon1914 road car1914 short1914 scooter1917 buzz-box1920 ride1930 drag1935 bus1939 wagon1955 wheels1959 sheen1968 low rider1974 scoot1977 1959 Esquire Nov. 70 j Wheels, car. 1970 K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly (1971) v. 51 ‘Can I drive you to where you're agitating today?’ ‘Beautiful. I don't have wheels,’ he said. 1971 ‘H. Carmichael’ Quiet Woman iv. 33 I'd be out and about if I had wheels. Damn car won't be ready until tomorrow. 1982 G. Lyall Conduct of Major Maxim xxv. 222 ‘Did you find me some wheels?’.. ‘Yep: a Renault 16TX.’ 8. we had one but the wheel came off, jocular phrase used to indicate that the speaker has not understood the subject of the foregoing conversation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > fail to comprehend [verb (intransitive)] uncomprehend1602 to have no idea1782 we had one but the wheel came off1937 you('ve) lost me1962 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 366/1 Had one and (or but) the wheel came off (,we), a lower-class and military c.p. directed at an unintelligible speaker or speech. 1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry xiv. 128 If asked for something foolish, you can say,..‘I had one but the wheels came off.’ III. Something resembling a wheel in form or movement. 9. An object having the form or figure of a wheel; a circle, or something circular; a disc. a. spec. (a) in Needlework, an open pattern or decoration with radiating threads; (b) in Architecture an ornament with radiating tracery (cf. wheel-window n. at Compounds 2); (c) in Zoology a wheel-like structure, as the wheel-organ of a rotifer, or a wheel-spicule in an echinoderm or sponge. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > circularity > a circle > a circular object wheela900 roundc1500 rotonda1711 rim1720 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > tracery > types of stump tracery1835 wheel1835 geometrical tracery1849 plate tracery1850 fanning1851 bar-tracery1861 wheel-tracery1913 mouchette1927 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > wheel-like wheel-organ1878 wheel1888 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > designs or patterns imagerya1393 imagery work1500 roundel1546 essefirme1600 branch1606 rundlet1672 veining1814 tracery1827 crow's foot1830 Berlin pattern1841 Venetian bar1882 wheatear1882 wheel1903 a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 5 May 74 He sæde þæt þa drihtnes fotlastas wæron beworht mid ærne hweole. c1000 in J. Stevenson Lat. Hymns Anglo-Saxon Church (1851) 22 Þære sunnan hweogul [L. solis rotam]. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame ii. 286 Yf that thow Thorwe on water now a stoon Wel wost thou hyt wol make anoon A litel roundell..And..thow shalt see wel That whele sercle wol cause another whele. a1500 Assemb. Ladies 55 With stayres going doun Inmiddes the place, with turning wheel, certayn. 1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. G3 The pecocke..puttes in a whylle his geltede fethers. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rouë de mer, the sea-wheele; a huge, round, and monstrous sea-fish. 1652 J. Skeffington tr. B. Gracián y Morales Heroe of Lorenzo 71 Let the Peacock please himself with the glorious wheel of his train. 1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vi. 64 Wheels occur mixed with the tracery and pannelling of the Italian Gothic. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 550 The calcareous deposits..are..represented..by wheels (= rotulae), e.g. in Chirodota. 1903 Daily Chron. 3 Oct. 8/3 Trimmed with smart wheels and tassels of brown silk. b. U.S. slang. A dollar; = cartwheel n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S. > one-dollar bill wheel1807 one1846 William1853 case1859 frogskin1902 single1936 sheet1937 1807 Narr. Life H. Tufts iii. iv. 316 Wheel, a dollar. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 160 I shows him a double handful o' the royal goold; the ginooine yeller stuff—wheels. 1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel 143 How will fifteen hundred round wheels strike you? 1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 v. 47 I paid twenty wheels for that eight years ago. c. A whole cheese, flan, or other food which is made with a circular form but may be cut into sections. Usually with of and defining term. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > a cheese cheeseeOE kebbuck1493 brickbat cheese1758 truckle1813 truckle-cheese1813 brick cheese1837 wheel1977 1977 New Yorker 3 Oct. 53/3 A feast of varied delicacies, its principal ornament a small wheel of Camembert. 1978 C. Conran Brit. Cooking 233/2 On May Day in the city of Gloucester a huge golden wheel of cheese, festively garlanded, used to be carried in procession round the town. 1978 Neiman-Marcus Christmas Bk. 93 A full three pound wheel, covered with protective black wax. 1982 M. Babson Death warmed Up viii. 75 The wheels of pizza and quiche lorraine in the makeshift rack. 1985 Sci. Amer. May 67/1 The semisoft, blue-mold cheese is made from sheep's milk and formed into wheels weighing about 2·5 kilograms (5·5 pounds) each. 10. The celestial sphere or firmament, or one of the spheres of the planets, etc. in the ancient astronomy, regarded as revolving like a wheel. Obsolete or merged in figurative senses (see 13, 14). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > [noun] wheelc1175 spherea1300 concavity1483 the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] liftOE heavenOE wheelc1175 welkina1325 spherec1374 elementc1384 firmamentc1386 roundnessa1398 movablec1400 orbc1449 concavity1483 concameration1625 subcelestial1644 orbit1727 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17531 Þurrh whatt wass heffness whel forrgarrt. To dreȝhenn helle pine? c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) i. met. v. 21 O þou maker of þe whele þat bereþ þe sterres. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. xl. 24 The wheel in whiche the moone gooth alwei aboute. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 242 The fix sterris with her orbe or whele. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxvii Ye shynyng sonne of vertue in bright whele of this Margaryte beholde. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. i. 62 Her eyes fast fix'd on the eternal wheels [i.e. the heavens]. 11. One of the wards of a lock, which are rotated by the key. technical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > part of lock > ward wardc1440 main-ward1678 step-ward1678 hook-ward1688 wheel1784 bridgeward1856 1784 Bramah in Repertory of Arts (1796) V. 218 The inserting..between the key-hole and the bolt, a greater or less number of wheels or wards. 1846 Penny Cycl. Suppl. II. 212/1 These prominent rings are the wards, or in technical language, wheels, which impede the introduction of a false key. IV. Figurative, allusive, and abstract uses. 12. a. The wheel which Fortune is fabled to turn, an emblem of mutability. (See also 5) So wheel of Providence (rare). to set or sit high on the wheel (of Fortune): to make or be highly fortunate; the wheel has come full circle and variants (in allusion to Shakespeare King Lear v. iii. 165), the same situation has come about again, things have returned to their original position. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > wheel of fortune wheelc888 stagea1300 spoke1412 rooc1440 wheel of custronsc1450 the world > action or operation > prosperity > cause to prosper or flourish [verb (transitive)] > make fortunate fortune14.. fortunatec1420 to set or sit high on the wheel1487 luck1530 fortunize1596 the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [noun] > symbol of tide1390 wheel of Providence1655 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > reversal [phrase] Tottenham is turned French1546 to turn the tables1612 to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)1642 the boot is on the other leg1854 the shoe is on the other foot1933 the wheel has come full circle1944 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. vii. §2 Wenst þu þæt ðu þæt hwerfende hweol þonne hit on ryne wyrð mæge oncerran? a1300 Cursor Mundi 23719 Dame fortune turnes þan hir quele. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 24 Huanne þe lheuedi of hap heþ hire hueȝel y~went. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 4660 Þe qwele of qwistounes ȝoure qualite encreses. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 67 Thanked be Fortune and hir false wheel. 1448–9 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes 389 O fortune,..Qwy chongyddyst thow thi qwele causeles? 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 637 Fortoune... This mychty kyng of yngland Scho had set on her quheill on hicht. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 448 Fortune turned her wheele and downe went this Colony. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 228 So fatall a thing it is, for the greatest and straitest Amities of Kings, at one time or other to haue a little of the Wheele. a1629 T. Wilson tr. J. de Montemayor Diana in Revue Hispanique (1920) 50 396 To hoping then giue confidence will I When fickle chance I once haue conquered Afixt a nayle in ffortunes turning whyle. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xxix. 70 Till the great wheel of providence turn up another spoke. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 22 The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 19 Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud. 1916 L. Tracy Day of Wrath v The turn of fortune's wheel was distinctly favourable. 1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge v. 176 The wheel comes full circle... There was a time when the black sheep of the family was sent from my country to America; now apparently he's sent from your country [sc. America] to Europe. 1954 J. A. Sheard Words we Use iv. 158 Old English had a derivative noun, godspellere, but this..was later replaced by a foreign loan-word,..evangelist... But in recent years the wheel has come full circle, and by a new process of derivation the Americans have their hot gospellers! 1966 W. H. Lewis in Lett. C. S. Lewis 24 The wheel had come full circle: once again we were together in the little end room at home. 1977 J. Crosby Company of Friends xviii. 117 The wheel was coming full circle. The public was fed to the teeth with disclosure. It yearned for the security of secrecy. b. With allusion to the wheels of the chariot of the Sun. poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > [noun] lightOE sunOE Phoebusc1275 the sheenc1400 Titana1413 solc1450 wheel1558 day-sun1570 day star1596 king of day1596 flame-god1598 Aten1877 the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > chariot of > wheels of wheel1558 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. sig. S.ijv The golden morning bright with roset wheles dyd mounting ryse. 1727 Broome Iliad xi, in Poems 177 While with his morning Wheels, the God of Day Climb'd up the Steep of Heav'n. 13. In direct figurative use from 1, esp. 1a, chiefly in reference to the course or sequence of events, procedure, the passage of time. a. from 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > means by which something progresses wheela1340 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xix. 8 Þai ere draghen aboute with þe whels of couatys. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 18 Whos carte goth upon the whieles Of coveitise and worldes Pride. ?1613 J. Taylor Wks. (1630) ii. 174/2 The wheele of Time would turne. a1628 F. Greville Cælica viii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 165 Furrowes not worne by time, but wheeles of anguish. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 27 Dec. (1976) IX. 402 All they can hope for to do out of the King's revenue being but to keep our wheels a-going on present services. 1668 J. Owen Nature Indwelling-sin xvi. 272 To oil the wheels of mens utmost endeavours. 1679 E. Everard Disc. Protestant Princes 20 All these States may be in a condition to nail the Wheel, and to produce an Universal Peace in Christendom. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 86 On these Wheels moves the Traffick of the East, and has succeeded better than any Corporation preceding. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 438 Covetousness has been..the principal..Spring of Motion; and..hypocritical Prayers and Fastings the sure Wheels, by which the great Work..has still gone forward. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 346 The great wheel of circulation [sc. money] is altogether different from the goods which are circulated by means of it. View more context for this quotation 1823 C. Lamb South-sea House in Elia 14 Night's wheels are rattling fast over me. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 3 This present writer..is anxious..to help the wheel over, and throw his stone on to the pile. 1884 J. Parker Apostolic Life III. 73 A little recognition of merit, a kindly reference to loving service done..helps the wheel of life to run round more smoothly. 1907 Standard 19 Jan. 6/6 The wheels of progress might be unduly impeded. b. on wheels: (a) With rapid and continuous movement or action; chiefly in to go or run on wheels, to proceed swiftly or uninterruptedly; to go smoothly, make good progress; to go on actively or incessantly; (humorously, of a clock) to go too fast or irregularly; (b) In working order, in normal condition for action (dialect); (c) used as an intensive: in the extreme. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)] > continue (of an action or operation) runOE to go fortha1382 to go or run on wheelsc1547 proceed1885 to wear on1886 the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)] > proceed without hindrance to go or run on wheelsc1547 the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > with rapid action [phrase] in hastec1300 on wheelsc1547 like wildfire1699 like magic1783 like a shot1809 a dose of salts1837 the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make good progress to go or run on wheelsc1547 forge1769 to be off and running1823 to be well on one's (also the) way1900 to take or make strides1926 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and easily to go or run on wheelsc1547 to go away1635 romp1816 the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [verb (intransitive)] > go fast or slow go1508 to go or run on wheels1738 to go wrong1809 gain1861 lose1861 the world > action or operation > in operation [phrase] > in working order going order1801 on wheels1914 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely like mada1375 with a mischief1538 (as) — as anything1542 with a vengeance1568 with a siserary1607 (to be pleased) to a feathera1616 in (the) extremea1616 with the vengeance1693 to a degree1740 like hell1776 like the devil1791 like winky1830 like billy-o1885 (like) seven shades of ——1919 like a bandit1943 on wheels1943 c1547 S. Gardiner Let. 21 May in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 734/2 The euell willers of the realme will take corage and make accompt..that all goeth on wheles. 1600 N. Breton Pasquils Passe 17 From the blaines and kibes vpon my heeles, And from a madding wit, that runnes on wheeles,..The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 308 Then may I set the world on wheeles, when she can spin for her liuing. View more context for this quotation 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xviii. 31 While his tongue Thus runs on wheels. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 108 Col. Pray, my Lord, what's a Clock by your Oracle? Ld. Sparkish. Faith, I can't tell, I think my Watch runs upon Wheels. 1820 J. Clare Poems 89 If fate's so kind to let's be doing, That's—just keep cart on wheels a going. 1831 M. M. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. xv. 307 I can..let my jointure run up to liquidate debts; and then, when it is clear, we shall be on our four wheels again. 1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. iv. 22 She was ‘on the job’ every minute until the cottage was ‘on wheels’. 1943 S. Lewis Gideon Planish 127 Looks just like a sweet little ivory statue, but is she hell on wheels! 1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard iv. 59 It was his wife. She's a bitch on wheels, from what he tells me. 1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird iv. 42 Look at the time... If you're going to show us your balloons, you'll have to do it on wheels. 1978 S. Brill Teamsters vii. 275 In the 1930s and '40s and into the '50s, truck driving was sweatshop labor on wheels. 1980 N. Freeling Castang's City xxv. 174 Local wine-shipper in quite a high-class way... The business ran on wheels. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > term or expression > apt or fitting a word on its (or upon the) wheels1655 mot juste1896 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 94 A word in season is a word on its wheels. c1657 P. Henry in Life (1699) 23 There never was Truth..more seasonable to any than this was to me: It was a word upon the Wheels. d. silly as a wheel: extremely silly. Australian slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective] > very foolish overfondc1592 supernodical1594 tomfool1762 damfool1881 silly as a wheel1952 1952 T. A. G. Hungerford Ridge & River 57 Oscar was sound, but silly as a wheel. 1966 J. Morrison in Coast to Coast 1965–6 157 I warned Rose. She was as silly as a wheel, too, but a man's got to do what he can to protect his daughters. 14. a. With allusion to sense 1b, denoting a constituent part or element of something figured as a machine. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > of anything figured as a machine wheel1625 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 84 So that if these three wheeles goe, Wealth will flow as in a Spring tide. a1628 J. Preston Saints Daily Exercise (1629) 116 It sets all the wheeles of the soul the right way. 1692 W. Lloyd Pretences French Invasion 15 The French King (the main Wheel in this designed Restauration). 1771 J. Wesley Jrnl. 31 Mar. (1827) III. 415 In the Methodist discipline, the wheels regularly stand thus: the Assistant, the Preachers, the Stewards, the Leaders, the people. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 144 Nor does He find the wickedness of men improper wheels for carrying on his most important designs among them. 1916 19th Cent. Apr. 822 The protagonist sets the wheels of fate in motion. b. wheels within wheels, less usually a wheel within a wheel (after Ezekiel i. 16): a complexity of forces or influences; a complication of motives, designs, or plots; also gen. any complexity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] > a complicated state of affairs labyrinthc1450 proplexity1487 maze1531 perplexity1563 intricacy1611 intrigo1648 intrigue1660 intricoa1670 wheels within wheels1679 imbroglio1818 involvement1821 scrimmage1852 situation1954 1679 M. Prance Addit. Narr. 32 Yet the Wheel within the wheel moved upon other grounds, God making use of his Soveraignty over his Creatures, in raising and stirring up One Nation or Person to punish the Evils of Another. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 74 Thus we have Wheels within Wheels. And in some National Constitutions..we have one Empire within another. a1754 E. Erskine Serm. Wrath of Man in Wks. (1791) 711/2 There is a wheel within a wheel, which will turn matters about so, as the wrath of man shall praise God, and advance his interest, instead of ruining it. 1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. App. 200 Being..wheels within wheels, sentences in the midst of sentences. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 391 There's a wheel within a wheel, or you wouldn't have got that. 1861 A. Gurowski Diary (1862) 75 McClellan ought to..have direct action; and not refer to Scott. What is this wheel within a wheel? 1900 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Isle of Unrest vi There are wheels within wheels..in the social world of Paris. c. to see (what makes) the wheels go round and variants: to see how things work; chiefly figurative with reference to the operation of a business, organization, etc. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > [verb (intransitive)] > see how things work to see (what makes) the wheels go round1889 1876 J. Habberton Helen's Babies 11 ‘I want to see the wheels go round,’ said Budge.] 1889 Indianapolis Jrnl. 9 Aug. 3 The Commissioner asked ‘if he wanted to see the wheels go round’. 1922 Broadcaster Oct. 149/1 The natural indifference of the fair sex to any knowledge of what ‘makes the wheels go round.’ 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean ix. 160 I want to watch a supercargo and see his wheels go round. 1979 P. Levi Head in Soup iii. 58 How amateur we were. Those who know how the wheels turn are always bored. 1980 N. Freeling Castang's City xv. 100 There's any amount of what makes the wheels go round... Feather~bedding and barrel-rolling. d. = big shot at shot n.1 22c. Cf. big wheel n. at big adj. and adv. Compounds 2 slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important persona1425 personagec1460 colossus1605 satrapon1650 bigwig1772 big man1789 butt-cut1806 tallboy1820 buzz-wig1854 great or high shot1861 celestial1874 pot1880 big stuff1883 importance1886 big wheel1893 mandarin1907 the (also a) big noise1909 hotty1910 big boy1918 biggie1926 hotshot1933 wheel1933 eminence1935 top hat1936 big or great white chief1937 Mr Big1940 big kahuna1966 1933 Amer. Speech 8 ii. 55/2 Wheels, substitute for big shots, leaders of a gang. 1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues xviii. 168 After I got to be a wheel in the kitchen, I used to take care of Marietta by saving her the best of the food. 1963 J. N. Harris Weird World Wes Beattie (1966) iii. 36 Well, in business, Howie is a sort of minor wheel... He owns pieces of things. Radio stations, a commercial film company, a night club. 1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 Sept. 27/8 If politicians and business people and other wheels don't like it, he couldn't care less. 1980 A. Fox Kingfisher Scream vi. 94 Some Pentagon wheel's flying in and Don feels he has to travel up there with him. 15. a. figurative. A reiterated or recurring course of actions, events, or time; an endless round or cycle. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] wheel?c1225 circlec1475 revolution1554 zodiac1560 circuit1601 compass1609 orb?1611 round1652 cycle1662 the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] > of events, etc. wheel?c1225 cycle1664 period1796 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 239 For to learen us þet we of þe worldes turpelnesse & of sunne hweol ofte gan to schrifte. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xi. 9 Erthly godes þat tornes wiþ þe whele of seuen dayes. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) James iii. 6 The tunge..set afijre of helle, enflaumeth the wheel of oure birthe. 1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law Pref. p. xiii All Buddhists..call their religion the doctrine of ‘The Wheel of the Law’. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > miscellaneous other processes englutingc1386 fermentationc1386 conjunctionc1400 cibation1471 separation1471 wheel1471 putrefactiona1550 termination1584 martyrization1612 restinction1617 illinition1678 immersion1683 interfection1727 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 133 The Wheele of Elements thou canst turne about. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 187 Then to wyn to thy desyre thou needst not be in dowte, For the Whele of our Phylosophy thou hast turnyd abowte. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. D4 I' haue another worke;..That, three dayes since, past the Philosophers wheele, In the lent heate of Athanor; and 's become Sulphur o' nature. View more context for this quotation ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [noun] > recurrence > turn charec1000 lotc1175 throwc1275 tourc1320 wheel1422 turnc1425 tourney1523 course1530 vice1637 rubbera1643 rote1831 whet1849 journey1884 1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 214 Me sholde ordeyne that euery gouernoure had tene Vicaries in his hoste, and euery vicarie ten lederis in his whele. 16. [Partly < wheel v.] A movement like that of a wheel. a. A movement in a circular or curved course; a circling motion (usually, through a single complete circle); a revolution. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] wheel1604 wheeling1674 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. xxviii. 493 In these daunces they made twoo circles or wheeles [Sp. dos ruedas de gente]. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 741 Satan..Throws his steep flight with [errata in] many an Aerie wheele . View more context for this quotation 1805 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno I. xvi. 21 They..Whirl'd round together in one restless wheel. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 85 Amid his senses' giddy wheel. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 5 A rough terrier dog..scampered at large in a thousand wheels round the heath. 1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline i. iv. 34 Merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances. b. A movement about an axis or centre; a rotation; a turn (usually, not completely around); spec. (Military) such a movement of a rank or body of troops about a pivot (pivot n. 4); occasionally = cartwheel n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [noun] > changing to face different direction or turning turning1303 turnc1390 circumversion1578 conversion1594 head1607 versation1656 wheela1660 slewc1860 society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [noun] > wheeling wheeling1622 wheela1660 overwheel1796 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > somersault > lateral or cartwheel Catherine wheel1861 cartwheel1884 wheel1904 a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 69 The captain mountinge on a white horse, did leade the musketires, without any wheeles, but went the high beaten way. 1672 T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline 19 There may be a Counter-march for the gaining of Ground; but I conceive them wholly useless but where you have not ground to make your Wheels. 1788 D. Dundas Princ. Mil. Movements App. 5 All wheels or filings made from the halt into column or line, are made at a quick step. 1797 J. Bailey & G. Culley Gen. View Agric. Northumberland 123 At the first appearance of any person they set off in full gallop; and at the distance of two or three hundred yards, make a wheel round, and come boldly up again. 1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry ii. 10 Right Wheel. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. ix. 257 Tea and coffee were enlivened by a collision between the footboys. Stiff-neck with the tea-tray made a sudden wheel upon No. 2 with the coffee-tray. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xxviii The reckless speed and practised wheel of the trained stock horses. 1904 J. O. Johnston Life & Lett. H. P. Liddon xi. 301 The ‘gamins’, who used to wheedle pennies from him by making ‘wheels’ for his amusement. c. In Rugby. (See quot. 1897 for wheel-assembler n. at Compounds 2.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres scrimmaging1776 throw on1845 rush1857 catch1858 maul1860 touch1863 mauling1864 touch-in-goal1869 goal-kicking1871 throw-forward1871 sidestepping1877 handing1882 punting1882 heel1886 touch kicking1889 forward pass1890 scrumming1892 touch-finding1895 heeling1896 wheel1897 scrag1903 reverse pass1907 jinka1914 hand-off1916 play-the-ball1918 gather1921 pivot pass1922 sidestep1927 smother-tackle1927 stiff-arm1927 heel-back1929 scissors1948 rucking1949 loose scrummaging1952 cut-through1960 pivot break1960 put-in1962 chip kicking1963 box kicking1971 peel1973 chip and chase1976 tap penalty1976 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 408/1 The wheel is made on the most favourable side by the back row bringing the ball round to the front. 1927 H. Walpole Jeremy at Crale xvi. 284 Back they went, down again, the ball flung in. The Callendar forwards had it and manœuvred the finest wheel of the match, swinging round against all opposition. 17. Prosody. A set of short lines forming the concluding part of a stanza, usually five in number, varying in form and length, but generally having the first line rhyming with the last, and often the intervening three rhyming with each other; the first line in some types is very short, and is then called the bob. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > wheel wheel1838 1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. 290 Besides the staves which originated in mixed and continuous rhime, there are others, which have sprung from the use of the Wheel and Burthen. By the latter of these terms I would understand the return of the same words at the close of each stave, and by the former the return of some marked and peculiar rhythm. 1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. 332. 1906 G. Saintsbury Hist. Eng. Prosody I. 105 The bob being of two syllables, and the wheel an irregular but unmistakable ballad-quatrain. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. (a) Of, pertaining to, consisting of, or connected with a wheel or wheels. wheel alignment n. ΚΠ 1908 Motor Man. (ed. 10) vi. 165 (heading) To test wheel alignment. 1971 ‘D. Rutherford’ Clear Fast Lane 70 I'm not going on till we've had the wheel-alignment checked. There's..a service station ten kilometres on. wheel arch n. ΚΠ 1935 Automobile & Carriage Builders' Jrnl. Mar. 45 (caption) Details of the wheelarch, scuttle ventilator and rear locker. 1983 Buses Feb. 57/1 Longitudinal seating provided over the rear wheelarches. wheel bearing n. ΚΠ 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 390 The castors at the front feet work upon wheel bearings. wheel-belt n. ΚΠ 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 158 There can be no slipping of the twine wheel-belt. wheel-box n. ΚΠ 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House liii. 505 [A carriage] with silver wheel-boxes. 1892 W. Black Wolfenberg xi The solitary figure slowly pacing up and down by the wheel-box [of a ship]. wheel brake n. ΚΠ 1936 Discovery July 228/2 The average pilot regards his wheel brakes as an assistance to ground taxying rather than as a means of arresting his run. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 378/1 Wheel brakes are generally hydraulically operated. wheel-cage n. ΚΠ 1889 St. G. Mivart Origin Human Reason 268 A squirrel or white mouse which turns in its wheel-cage. wheel-case n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > parts of quill1629 report1653 red fire1680 cartouche1719 blue light1761 sun case1765 choke1786 settle1873 touchpaper1873 wheel-case1875 lance1878 starting powder1886 pastille1890 c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame ii. 286 Yf that thow Thorwe on water now a stoon Wel wost thou hyt wol make anoon A litel roundell..And..thow shalt see wel That whele sercle wol cause another whele.] 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wheel-case, a stout paper case,..filled with composition,..tied to the rim of a wheel or rotating piece of fire-works. wheel-circle n. wheel-coulter n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > wheeled plough > wheels land wheel1742 gauge-wheel1874 wheel-coulter1875 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wheel-colter, a sharp-edged wheel running in advance of the breast of the plow, to cut the sod or weeds in the line of the furrow. wheel-flange n. ΚΠ 1859 Newton's London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 9 115 The pressure of the wheel-flange will tend to crush any obstructing substance upon the chairs. wheel-grease n. ΚΠ 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 269/1 Axungia,..wheele grease. 1901 Academy 8 June 495/2 Derby, with its locomotives and everlasting Midland wheel-grease. wheel-lathe n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wheel-lathe, a lathe for turning railway-wheels and other large work. wheel-mark n. ΚΠ 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. ix. 232 Following the old wheel-marks on the gravel. wheel-nave n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > hub or nave naveeOE nathea1325 nave stocka1333 navelc1425 navel-stockc1425 stock1585 hub1652 wheel-nave1707 wheel-stock1835 wheel-head1845 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 332 The Witch-Elm..is good for Wheel-naves. wheel-pump n. ΚΠ 1923 W. Deeping Secret Sanctuary ix Stretton had seen the winch and bucket go, and a wheel pump under a pent-house had taken its place. wheel-rim n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > rim felloeeOE rim1440 rowelc1440 wheel-rim1513 shroud1576 wheel-ring1766 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > rim felloeeOE rim1440 wheel-rim1513 sole?1523 wheel-ring1766 tire1782 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 162 The payntit povne..Kest vp his taill, a provd plesand quheil rym. 1893 Outing 22 133/2 My rear wheel-rim. wheel-ring n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > rim felloeeOE rim1440 rowelc1440 wheel-rim1513 shroud1576 wheel-ring1766 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > rim felloeeOE rim1440 wheel-rim1513 sole?1523 wheel-ring1766 tire1782 1766 Compl. Farmer at Fence This timber is of excellent service..for ploughs, axle-trees, wheel-rings, harrows, &c. wheel-road n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles wheel-waya785 quarter-road1749 wheel-road1823 motorway1897 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. i. 29 To my own contemporaries, who have known wheel-road, bridle-way, and foot-path for thirty years. 1882 Morris in Mackail W.M. (1899) II. 67 The wheel-roads across the downs are doubtful. wheel-rod n. ΚΠ 1891 L. H. Bailey Ann. Hort. N. Amer. 1890 ii. §10. 256 In front is an inch hole through which the wheel-rod passes. wheel-rut n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > for carts > rut in wheel-spurc1440 cart-spur1483 fossea1500 slough1532 wheel-track1552 wheel-rut1598 cart-rut1601 wheel-tread1735 cart-ruck1820 ruck1820 cart-track1824 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 95 The breadth betweene the wheele-ruts of one of their cartes. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 99 Little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges. wheel-spoke n. ΚΠ 1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 19v/1 A whele spoke, radius vel modiolus. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 326 Oak..for..Shingles, Wainscott, Wheel Spoakes. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxiii. 168 It had stout wheel-spokes, and heavy felloes. wheel-table n. ΚΠ 1926 W. J. Locke Stories Near & Far 172 A probationer stood by serving the laden wheel-table. wheel-timber n. ΚΠ 1376 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 584 Rob'to Yoill, carpentario, culpanti qweltimber. 1573 in J. P. Earwaker Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1893) 139 Item bords cowper tymber wheles and whele tymber. 1662 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour (new ed.) 132 Plow-timber, cart-timber, wheel-timber. 1792 Descr. Kentucky 41 In 1787 were exported Sets of wheel timbers 1,056. wheel-tire n. ΚΠ 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 145 According as the metal is intended to be reduced to the strength of wheel-tyre, hoop-iron, or different sized bars. wheel-tooth n. ΚΠ 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 509 The points of the wheel-teeth must not be rounded off. wheel-top n. ΚΠ 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxvii. 118 Beholdynge Mars how wonderly he stode, On a whele top with a lady of pryde. wheel-track n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > for carts > rut in wheel-spurc1440 cart-spur1483 fossea1500 slough1532 wheel-track1552 wheel-rut1598 cart-rut1601 wheel-tread1735 cart-ruck1820 ruck1820 cart-track1824 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Whele tracte or rutte, orbita. c1820 S. Rogers Naples in Italy 115 The wheel-track worn for centuries. 1859 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. (1871) II. 285 A vineyard, with a wheel-track through the midst of it. wheel trim n. ΚΠ 1976 Ilkeston Advertiser 10 Dec. 3/4 (advt.) Morris 1800 (Princess style) Saloon (1975 ‘P’)... Fitted radio, wheel-trims etc. 1983 Which? Sept. 435/2 However, all of the ‘MG’ wheel trims fell off at some time. (b) Furnished with or moving on a wheel or wheels (of vehicles = ‘wheeled’). wheel-arquebus n. ΚΠ 1855 F. B. Palliser tr. J. Labarte Handbk. Arts Middle Ages & Renaissance x. 369 These arms were denominated wheel-arquebuses [Fr. arquebuses à rouet]. wheel-bier n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > funeral equipment > [noun] > bier bier1387 feretoryc1400 byre1467 coffin1526 horse1597 fercule1606 hearse1610 sandapile1623 wheel-bier1898 handy1909 1898 F. D. How Life Bp. W. How 371 A simple wheel-bier decorated with flowers received the coffin. wheel-bridge n. ΚΠ c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 37 The Wheele-bridg, which Engine his Excellency, had made, to run over the moate, when they storm'd the Castle. wheel-clock n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock watch-clock1592 German clock1598 quarter clocka1631 wheel-clock1671 table clocka1684 month clock1712 astronomical clock1719 musical clock1721 repeater1725 Tompion1727 pulling clock1733 regulator1735 eight-day clock1741 regulator clock1750 French clock1757 repetition clock1765 day clock1766 striker1778 chiming clock1789 cuckoo-clock1789 night clock1823 telltale1827 carriage clock1828 fly-clock1830 steeple clock1830 telltale clock1832 skeleton clock1842 telegraph clock1842 star clock1850 weight-clock1850 prison clock1853 crystal clock1854 pillar scroll top clock1860 sheep's-head clock1872 presentation clock1875 pillar clock1880 stop-clock1881 Waterbury1882 calendar-clock1884 ting-tang clock1884 birdcage clock1886 sheep's head1887 perpetual calendar1892 bracket clock1894 Act of Parliament clock1899 cartel clock1899 banjo-clock1903 master clock1904 lantern clock1913 time clock1919 evolutionary clock1922 lancet clock1922 atomic clock1927 quartz clock1934 clock radio1946 real-time clock1953 organ clock1956 molecular clock1974 travelling clock2014 1671 T. Hunt Abecedarium Scholasticum 110 By the Press we make men immortal, by Wheel-clocks we are made companions of time. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 77 Automata..are certainly not older than wheel-clocks. wheel-crane n. ΚΠ 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Crone A wheel-crane, built on a wharf. wheel-farthingale n. ΚΠ 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding ii. vi, in Comedies & Trag. 99 Ever since yellow starch and wheel Fardingales were cry'd down. wheel-harrow n. ΚΠ 1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 399 1 qwhele harow. wheel hoe n. ΚΠ 1858 C. L. Flint Milch Cows 193 In weeding, a little wheel-hoe is invaluable. 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Apr. 9/6 (advt.) We carry a full line of Garden Drills, Double and Single Wheel Hoes. wheel loader n. ΚΠ 1971 Engineering Apr. 52 The whole caterpillar-built range including lift trucks, track and wheel loaders, and dozers. wheel-machine n. ΚΠ 1770 P. Forbes Jrnls. Episcopal Visitations (1886) 288 A Wooden Bridge..by which Horses and Wheel-machines do easily Cross the Water. wheel mail n. ΚΠ 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III. xxvii. 99 It was problematical whether the contractor was running a wheel mail or not. wheel-sled n. ΚΠ 1570 Rec. Inverness (New Spalding Club) I. 195 That na quheill sleddis..cum vpon the brig. wheel-vehicle n. ΚΠ 1734 J. Rowe (title) All sorts of wheel-carriage improved;..Waggons, Carts, Coaches, and all other Wheel-Vehicles. 1836 T. Carlyle New Lett. (1904) I. 48 The wheel-vehicles making no noise. b. wheel-boy n. cf. wheelman n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with wheels ventilatora1800 wheel-boy1825 whirler1825 wheelman1865 fat boy1940 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 423 Little or no attendance is required from wheel-boys or followers. wheel-sweep n. see sweep n. 17c. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > leading to a house private road1652 avenue1664 drive1780 carriage drive1800 carriage sweep1800 sweep1811 driveway1824 wheel-sweep1833 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1244 The Pulborough stone paving of the wheel sweep. wheel-train n. see train n.2 12a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > set of wheelwork1670 nest1874 wheel-train1888 1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. Wheel-train, a number of wheels so arranged that the revolution of one causes the revolution of all. wheel-tread n. see tread n. 7b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > for carts > rut in wheel-spurc1440 cart-spur1483 fossea1500 slough1532 wheel-track1552 wheel-rut1598 cart-rut1601 wheel-tread1735 cart-ruck1820 ruck1820 cart-track1824 1735–6 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms Tread, a wheel-tread, rut, tract [i.e. track]. c. Objective. (a) wheel-cutter n. wheel-maker n. ΚΠ 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 688/15 Hic rotarius, whelmaker. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1154 The principle which directs the modern wheel-maker. wheel-tapper n. ΚΠ ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) Index 178 Wheel tapper. wheel-turner n. (b) wheel-bearing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Rotifera > [adjective] rotiferous1833 wheel-bearing1846 rotiferal1847 1846 R. Patterson Introd. Zool. 6 The order itself Rotifera, or wheel-bearing. wheel-changing n. and adj. ΚΠ 1974 Harrod's Christmas Catal. 69/2 Lotus..scale model: complete with wheel brace for wheel changing. wheel-cutting n. and adj. ΚΠ 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 308/2 Wheel-cutting..comprehends the modes of cutting the teeth in the wheels used by watch and clock makers. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 88 The circular brass plate in a wheel-cutting engine. wheel-greasing n. and adj. wheel-resembling n. and adj. ΚΠ 1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. E7v Great Gouernour of (wheele-resembling) Heauen. wheel-turning n. and adj. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wheel-turning Lathe, one with two very solid head-stocks with large face-plates, and two slide-rests operated by a ratchet-feed from an overhead rock-shaft. (c) Instrumental. wheel-driven adj. ΚΠ 1972 Guinness Bk. Records (ed. 19) 128/2 The highest speed attained by any wheeled land vehicle is 631·368 m.p.h...on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, on 23 Oct. 1970... The highest speed attained by a wheel-driven car is 429· 311 m.p.h...on the salt flats at Lake Eyre, South Australia, on 17 July 1964. wheel-going adj. ΚΠ 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen i. 1 At Semlin..I had come, as it were, to the end of this wheel-going Europe. wheel-made adj. ΚΠ 1888 Jrnl. Derbysh. Archæol. Soc. 10 50 Wheel-made pottery in the barrows of the district. wheel-marked adj. ΚΠ 1894 Outing 24 398/1 Along a wide and wheel-marked trail. wheel-smashed adj. wheel-spun adj. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > woollen > for sewing or knitting > specific Norfolk thread1407 garn1483 crewel1494 caddis1530 worsted yarn1533 worsted1546 fingering1681 German wool1807 wheel-spuna1825 Berlin wool1841 ice wool1876 Berlin1881 eis wool1882 quick-knit1935 bawneen1958 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Wheelspun, very stout worsted yarn, spun on the common large wheel. wheel-turned adj. ΚΠ 1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 293 O thou clear lustre of the wheel-turn'd lamp. wheel-worn adj. ΚΠ 1727 W. Broome Poems 242 Along the Wheel-worn Road they hold their way. 1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 21 The chariots bounding in her wheel-worn streets. 1944 E. Blunden Shells by Stream 13 Its kingdom is the farm, the farmer's lane Its wheelworn churchway from the lonely road. (d) Similative, parasynthetic, etc. wheel-broad adj. ΚΠ 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada Prol to pt. i sig. b4 Wheel-broad hats. wheel-footed adj. ΚΠ 1788 W. Cowper Gratitude 9 This wheel-footed studying chair. wheel-like adj. ΚΠ 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 607/1 The cilia constitute the..wheel-like organs of the Rotiferous Infusoria. d. wheel-bearer n. see rotifer n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Rotifera > [noun] > member of rotifer1777 wheel-animal1788 wheel-insect1800 wheel-animalcule1834 rotatory1835 rotator1854 rotatorian1861 wheel-bearer1861 1861 H. J. Slack Marv. Pond-life 23 Following the Protozoa, come the Rotifera, or Wheel-bearers. 1877 J. G. Wood Optics in Nature's Teachings ii. 306 Soon after the powers of the microscope became known, these Wheel-bearers were discovered. C2. Special Combinations. See also wheel-band n., wheelbarrow n., etc. wheel-animal n. = rotifer n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Rotifera > [noun] > member of rotifer1777 wheel-animal1788 wheel-insect1800 wheel-animalcule1834 rotatory1835 rotator1854 rotatorian1861 wheel-bearer1861 1788 Encycl. Brit. II. 28/1 The Wheel-Animal, or Vorticella..is found in rain water that has stood some days. wheel-animalcule n. = rotifer n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Rotifera > [noun] > member of rotifer1777 wheel-animal1788 wheel-insect1800 wheel-animalcule1834 rotatory1835 rotator1854 rotatorian1861 wheel-bearer1861 1834 Lancet 24 May 290/2 We see in this wheel-animalcule, the hydatina senta, many of those muscular bands passing down longitudinally from the head, nearly as we saw in the large holothuria. wheel arrangement n. the relative positioning of driving wheels and idle wheels on a locomotive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > positioning of driving and idle wheels wheel arrangement1912 1912 Railway Mag. Mar. 203/1 Of the total number of engines mentioned, 80 were of the 2–2–2–0 wheel arrangement. 1966 K. Möller Amer. & Brit. Railway Eng. 43 0–8–0 is a notation for a wheel arrangement of eight driving wheels and no leading or trailing wheels. A great number of wheel arrangements have special names, originating with the railway on which they were first used. wheel-assembler n. one who fits together the parts of the wheels of bicycles, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of wheels or wheeled vehicles wheelwright1281 cartwright14.. wheeler1497 cart-maker1579 coach-wright1587 coach-maker1599 coach-wheeler1686 coach-builder1794 coach-joiner1800 wainwright1855 wagon-wright1858 wheel-assembler1897 auto worker1901 1897 Outing 30 277/2 All through the arts of the wheel-assemblers. wheel-assembly n. the operation of doing this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > wheel-making > [noun] wheelage1681 wheelwrighting1883 wheel-assembly1897 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > making wheels or wheeled vehicles wheelwrighting1883 wheel-assembly1897 1897 Outing 30 279/2 They are then sent to the wheel-assembly department, to receive the bearings, spokes and rims. wheel-back n. a back resembling a wheel, characteristic of chairs made by Heppelwhite about 1775; also a chair with such a back. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair with back > of specific type wainscot chair1663 Windsor chair1724 slat-back1891 comb-back1901 Windsor1901 wheel-back1902 hoop-back1905 ladder-back1908 spoon-back1909 Mendlesham chair1935 1902 W. H. Hackett Decorative Furnit. xi. 133 A set of six typical Heppelwhite [sic] chairs..had ‘wheel’ backs, on taper legs, with cross stretchers. 1909 G. O. Wheeler Old Eng. Furnit. (ed. 2) 489 Heppelwhite's wheel-back chair..may be found with cabriole legs, and later with typical straight tapered ones. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 90 The revival of Welsh dressers, wheel-backs and ladderbacks. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 133 In the hand-made ‘wheel~back’ there is the vestigial hub in the centre, but for economy this is absent from the factory-made splat. wheel balance n. Mechanics an even distribution of mass about the axis of a wheel so that it rotates without wobbling or vibrating. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > balance of wheel balance1946 1946 W. H. Crouse Automotive Mech. xxiv. 533 Wheel balance can be checked in several ways. 1962 Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 139/2 Severe vibration developed throughout the car at speeds over 65 mph and a further check of wheel balance failed to overcome this. wheel balancing n. the process of achieving this for the wheels of a motor vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [noun] > specific servicing or repair operations tuning1916 oil change1944 wheel balancing1951 panel beating1953 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > balance of > process of achieving wheel balancing1951 1951 I. Frazee et al. Automotive Suspensions x. 276 (heading) Wheel balancing. 1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 5 May 5/1 (advt.) Terrific tyre bargains!.. Wheel balancing. Got the ‘shimmy’—Got the ‘shakes’? Expert correction. wheel-barometer n. a mercurial barometer having a float attached to a string passing over a pulley-wheel on which the index turns. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > barometer > types of baroscope1665 wheel-barometer1666 water barometer1715 sympiesometer1817 barometrograph1847 aneroid1849 barograph1865 Fortin1875 telebarograph1884 telebarometer1884 telehydrobarometer1884 aneroidograph1890 statoscope1890 barocyclonometer1906 1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 155 My Wheel-barometer I could never fill so exactly with Mercury, as to exclude all Air. 1840 Hutton's Recr. Math. 652 Several expedients have been adopted for lengthening the scale of the barometer... The most popular expedient is that adopted in what is called the wheel barometer. wheel-base n. the distance between the points of contact of the front and back wheels of a vehicle, as a bicycle or railway-carriage, with the ground or rail. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > distance between front and back wheel-base1886 1886 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Mar. 201 The distance between the supporting wheels is four feet, which thus forms the rigid wheel-base of the truck. wheel bay n. = wheel well n. below. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > recess into which landing gear retracts wheel well1959 wheel bay1976 1976 ‘A. Hall’ Kobra Manifesto xv. 200 The problem was to keep my body arched against the curved top of the wheelbay, giving me a chance of escaping the wheels when they slammed home and locked. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > truckle-bed truckle-bed1459 tirl-bed1487 trundle-bed1542 wheel-bed1556 trundle bedstead1590 truckle1637 truckle bedstead1895 rollaway1958 1556 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 92 On pare of bed stocks, one pare for a qwele bedd. 1589 in Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) (Chetham Soc.) 206 One standinge bedd and a wheelebed in ye parlor. 1619 in J. Harland House & Farm Shuttleworths (1856) I. 238 For a wheele bedd vjs. wheel-bird n. a local name for the night-jar or goat-sucker, from its cry suggesting the noise of a spinning-wheel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, etc.) > [noun] > family Caprimulgidae > member of genus Caprimulgus > caprimulgus europaeus (nightjar) goat-milker1611 goatsucker1611 nighthawk1611 nightjar1630 dor-hawk1668 churn-owl1674 fern-owl1678 goat owl1766 eve-jara1793 puckeridgea1793 moth-hunter1816 wheel-bird1817 jar-owl1832 nightchurr1837 night-swallow1840 eve-churr1861 wheeler1862 scissors-grinder1875 puck1878 spinner1885 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. i. 147 This species [European Goatsucker] makes a..noise, which has been compared to that of a large spinning wheel,..and has on that account been called the wheel bird. 1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 625 Wheel-bird, or Wheeler, the Nightjar. wheel-boat n. a boat with wheels, esp. (Scottish) a steamboat with paddle-wheels. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > having wheels wheel-boat1834 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by paddles > paddle-steamer riverboat1565 wheel-boat1834 paddle steamer1848 paddlewheeler1876 paddler1890 paddle1897 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. viii. 101 ‘How did you come from Glasgow?’ ‘By the wheel-boat, or steam-boat, as they ca'd it, to Lunnon.’ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wheel-boat, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water or upon inclined planes or railways. wheel brace n. (a) a tool for screwing and unscrewing nuts on the wheel of a vehicle; (b) a kind of hand drill worked by the turning of a wheel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > brace wimble?1362 brace1567 bit-brace1881 wheel brace1920 brace-drill- society > occupation and work > equipment > screwdrivers, wrenches, spanners > [noun] > spanner or wrench > other spanners or wrenches tap wrench1815 doghook1847 stock1862 stud box1867 socket wrench1905 Allen key1910 wheel brace1920 tongs1922 nut driver1939 spud wrench1939 torque wrench1948 nut runner1958 Mole1959 skate key1962 1920 Motor Man. (ed. 23) xiv. 144 The most popular form of fitting is by means of separate bolts carried on the fixed hub, to which the pressed-steel wheel is held by a number of capped nuts which can be detached by a wheel brace. 1964 F. Preston Man makes Hole 6/2 The hand drill or wheel brace is of fairly recent origin, although it derives from the so-called bevel drill widely made in Germany. 1974Wheel brace [see wheel-changing n. and adj. at Compounds 1c(b)]. 1975 R. A. Salaman Dict. Tools 187/2 Drill, hand (Wheel Brace..)..The modern form of Hand Drill was an American innovation of about 1870 which reached this country about the turn of the century. 1984 B. Francis AA Car Duffer's Guide 38/2 Then, with the wheelbrace, slacken off all the wheel nuts about half a turn. wheel-bug n. a large reduviid insect ( Prionidus cristatus) of the southern United States and the West Indies, with a semicircular serrated crest suggesting a cog-wheel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of family Reduviidae > prionidus cristatus (wheel-bug) wheel-bug1815 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. iv. 110 The wheel-bug can..communicate an electric shock to the person whose flesh it touches. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 316 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The Reduvius, or wheel-bug, is found in gardens, feeding voraciously upon caterpillars. wheel car n. a simple farm-cart (see quot. 1931). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > other types streetcar1671 hutch1742 box cart1794 Scotch cart1807 Red River cart1857 wheel car1931 1931 Antiquity June 185 The special features of the wheel-car are..(a) the great length..of the body..; (b) the position of the axle tree above..the main beams of the frame; (c) the bumpers..; and (d) the embryo cart structure. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts xi. 163 Round about Clun, they knew it [sc. a gambo] as a wheel-car. wheel-chain n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > steering equipment > [noun] > helm > steering yoke or quadrant > rope or chain yokea1625 wheel-rope1820 yoke line1822 string1852 tiller-lines1889 wheel-chain1891 1891 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. 194 Wheel Chains, chains used in place of the rope for connecting the steering wheel and the tiller. wheel clamp n. a clamp designed to be locked to one of the wheels of an illegally parked motor vehicle to immobilize it; hence as v. transitive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [verb (transitive)] > wheel-clamp wheel clamp1980 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > clamp for illegally parked vehicle Denver boot1967 boot1968 wheel clamp1980 1980 Daily Tel. 2 Jan. 3 (heading) Car park offenders face wheel clamps. 1981 Times 19 Nov. 3 Illegal parking in London has become so widespread that the Government may bow to police demands to be allowed to use wheel clamps to immobilize offending vehicles. 1983 Daily Tel. 14 July 19/1 Cars belonging to diplomats will no longer be wheel-clamped. wheel clamping n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adjective] > immobilizing wheel clamping1980 1980 Daily Tel. 2 Jan. 3/2 More officers will be available to tow away dangerously parked vehicles and the use of the ‘Denver Shoe’ a wheel clamping device, is being considered. 1983 Sunday Tel. 15 May 3/1 The wheel clamping team..will consist of one sergeant, eight police constables, 28 vehicle removal officers and eight traffic wardens. wheel-cross n. a variety of ring-cross with arms radiating from a small circle in the centre of the ring. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > others popinjay1322 serpent1388 moss-work1600 flame1602 frostwork1631 damask branch1634 mascaron1664 lacework1675 swash1680 branch-work1702 escallop-shella1706 festoon work1712 ovum1728 bricking1760 rising sun1787 ram's horn1842 linen-pattern1845 linen-scroll1854 wheel-rood1862 primal1875 patch ornament1878 tree1879 wheel-cross1882 skeuomorph1889 linenfold1891 taotie1915 boteh1917 pelta1935 starburst1953 quilling1972 towel-pattern- 1882 M. E. Gooday tr. J. J. A. Worsaae Industr. Arts Denmark 66 The ring-cross was sometimes employed indiscriminately with the wheel-cross to indicate the wheels of the sun-carriage. wheel-dog n. Canadian the dog harnessed nearest to the sleigh in a dog team. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > that pulls sled sled-dog1692 husky1871 outrunner1894 wheel-dog1922 1922 G. C. F. Pringle Tillicums of Trail 85 I put a smaller dog..in the lead and hitched Steal up next the sleigh as my ‘wheel-dog’. 1965 A. V. Wilson No Man stands Alone 29 I firmly believe that the ‘wheel-dog’, next to the sled, can upset one any time he wishes. wheel-draught n. a current of smoke and hot air in a steam-engine, circulating continuously in one direction. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > a movement of air > a current of air > circulating in a steam engine wheel-draught1871 1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 529 A wheel-draught; that is to say, the current of flame and smoke, after passing along the bottom of the boiler, rises up at the end. wheel-dwelling n. Archaeology = wheelhouse n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > prehistoric dwellings broch1654 crannog1851 pile-building1863 pile-work1863 fascine dwelling1865 lake-habitation1865 palafitte1866 terramare1866 roundhouse1872 mound dwelling1897 wag1911 wheel-dwelling1931 wheelhouse1935 1931 V. G. Childe Skara Brae vii. 174 The Jarlshof hut..illustrates..the normal construction of a wheel-dwelling. wheel-hut n. Archaeology = wheelhouse n. 3. ΚΠ 1931 V. G. Childe Skara Brae vii. 173 The relics from the wheel-huts round the broch of Jarlshof cannot be distinguished from those from the broch itself. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > miscellaneous apparatus bain1477 speculum1650 filtering paper1651 wheel-fire1662 filter paper1670 sun furnace1763 respirator1789 candle-ball1794 rectifier1822 candle-bomb1823 filter1823 oxyhydrogen blowpipe1823 shade1837 graduator1839 pipette1839 thistle funnel1849 pressure tube1852 ozonizer1858 dialyser1861 Liebig condenser1861 Sprengel pump1866 Sprengel tube1866 water softener1867 mercury pump1869 Bunsen burner1870 dialysator1877 test-mixer1877 tube-condenser1877 Kipp1879 reflux condenser1880 policeman1888 converter1889 pressure boiler1891 spot plate1896 hydrogen electrode1898 sampler1902 reactor1903 fume-chamber1905 Permutit1910 microburner1911 salt bridge1915 precipitator1919 Raschig ring1920 microneedle1921 titrator1928 laboratory coatc1936 spray tower1937 precipitron1938 ion exchanger1941 potentiostat1942 chemostat1950 Knudsen pipette1951 pH-stat1956 cryopump1958 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > other fires moorburn1424 coal firea1450 commonty fire1573 moor-burning1610 stubble-firea1618 wheel-fire1662 night-fire1687 waterball1696 chip fire1795 neal-fire1813 bratchel1815 forge-fire1855 log-fire1878 electrical fire1900 slash fire1949 dumpster fire1957 chip pan fire1960 chip fire1985 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 165 Make a good fire of Charcole about it, wch is called a Wheel-fire of cementation. wheel-guard n. (a) a circular guard on a sword or dagger; (b) a guard to protect a wheel from dirt or injury, or to prevent it from chafing some other part of the vehicle or machine. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > [noun] > guard wheel-guard1860 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > other parts of carriage tail-pin1497 brack1622 head-plate1647 transom1688 prise-bolt1705 bracket1753 bracket-bolt1753 pintle1769 rider1779 trail-plate-eye1828 cleat1834 wheel-guard1860 spade1862 nave-hole1867 chassis1869 turntable1889 gun-crutch1898 trail-spade1904 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > other parts vane1815 web1828 offset1850 wheel-guard1860 spade1862 pulley cone1903 1860 J. Hewitt Anc. Armour II. 258 The guard took a variety of forms, as the cross-guard, that composed of two knobs, and the wheel-guard. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wheel-guard Plate, (Ordnance), an iron plate on each side of the stock of a..gun-carriage to prevent its being chafed by the wheels when turning. wheel-head n. (a) the nave or central part of a wheel; (b) ‘the headstock of a spinning-mule’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.); (c) ‘the lathe-head of a seal-engraver's engine’ ( Cent. Dict.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > hub or nave naveeOE nathea1325 nave stocka1333 navelc1425 navel-stockc1425 stock1585 hub1652 wheel-nave1707 wheel-stock1835 wheel-head1845 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. vi. 36 On naked beams above were suspended..wheelheads, &c. 1900 Daily News 17 Jan. 7/1 The wheel-head crosses of Ireland. wheel-horse n. a horse harnessed between the shafts of a vehicle, next to the wheels, as distinguished from a leader; figurative a person who bears the chief burden of a business. ΚΠ 1708 London Gaz. No. 4424/1 Which enjoins Waggoners to draw with a Pole between the Wheel-Horses. 1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 10 He falls into it as certainly as a new wheel-horse in a mail. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xxvii The only speech was made by the Solon who had the bill called up, a familiar organization wheelhorse. wheel-insect n. = wheel-animal n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Rotifera > [noun] > member of rotifer1777 wheel-animal1788 wheel-insect1800 wheel-animalcule1834 rotatory1835 rotator1854 rotatorian1861 wheel-bearer1861 1800 J. Anderson Recreations in Agric. 2 257 There has been discovered among the animalcula infusoria, one which..has been called by the English, the wheel insect. wheel-iron n. (see quot. 1837). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > support and fittings to resist action of draught wheel-iron1829 backstay1879 stay-enda1884 1829 Sporting Mag. (N.S.) 23 388 What we call a wheel-iron, placed, as usual on the nose of an axle-tree. 1837 W. B. Adams Eng. Pleasure Carriages 87 Splinter Bar Stays, to resist the action of the draught. Formerly these were affixed to the ends of the axles, and called ‘wheel irons’. wheel-ladder n. (see quot. 1888). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > body > plank or rail > having a windlass attached wheel-ladder1573 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 14v Whele ladder for haruest. 1710 D. Hilman Tusser Rediv. Sept. (1744) 117 Cart Ladders and Wheel Ladders are Frames on the Sides and Tail, to support light Loads as Hay, &c. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Wheel-ladder, a lade for the back part of a wagon, having a small roller or windlass attached, by which the ropes for binding the load can be strained tight. wheel landing n. Aeronautics a landing (of an aircraft with a tail-wheel or tail-skid) in which the main wheels touch down first, followed by the tail. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing > with respect to wheels on ground three-point1909 wheel landing1928 wheelbarrowing1977 1928 N. Macmillan Art of Flying x. 142 With many aeroplanes..too slow speed of approach makes the elevator unable to apply the necessary load quickly enough. This results in a wheel landing with the tail up. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 8 The second pilot..said that the impact was no worse than a bad wheel landing. wheel-map n. (see quot. 1899). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > other types of map mappa mundia1387 mappemondea1393 table1610 Mercator's chart1645 Peutingerian tablea1657 Mercator1694 hemisphere1706 Peutinger1731 road map1741 geological map1798 route map1816 ordnance map1828 outline map1836 contour map1862 index map1869 hypsographical map1881 soil map1898 wheel-map1899 strip map1903 distribution map1947 worm's-eye map1964 topo1970 1899 Geogr. Jrnl. Mar. 226 The mediæval wheel-maps, in which Jerusalem was accepted as the centre of the world, whence the main geographical lines radiated like the spokes of a wheel. 1907 T. C. Middleton Geogr. Knowl. Discov. Amer. 18 The ‘wheel-maps’ of the globe, devised by St. Isidore. wheel-money n. name for certain prehistoric metallic objects, supposed by some to be money, made in the form of a wheel, i.e. of a cross surrounded by a ring. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > metal in specific shape larin1588 ring-money1759 wheel-money1861 bullet-money1879 spade-coin1892 spade-money1892 knife-money1901 1861 Archæol. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. VII. 215 These specimens of wheel and ring money, which were fabricated in the latter place [sc. Caltu]. wheel-organ n. Zoology the trochal disc of a rotifer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > wheel-like wheel-organ1878 wheel1888 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 138 This wheel-organ—so-called from the movement of its cilia—varies greatly in character. wheel-pair n. a pair of wheel-horses. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > team of > horse(s) attached to or between shafts thill-horsec1325 limoneer1524 thiller1552 body horse1558 fill-horse1600 limber1632 filler1695 pole horse1725 shaft-horse1769 wheel-pair1794 wheeler1813 shafter1840 1794 in Chambers's Jrnl. (1858) 9 Oct. 234/1 The postilion so managed the wheel-pair, that the princesses..were..enabled to leap from the carriage without injury. wheel pants n. Aeronautics (see quot. 1956). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > landing gear > wheel > streamlined covering for spat1931 wheel pants1956 1956 U.S. Air Force Dict. 567/1 wheel pants, a set of streamlined fairings around each wheel in certain fixed landing gears. 1971 Flying Apr. 40/1 The 172 did appear with clean, 175-style wheel-pants. Thesaurus » wheel pen n. a pen with a small toothed wheel instead of nibs, for tracing dotted lines (Webster 1920). wheel-piece n. (a) a lateral part of a car-truck, supporting the pedestals or axle-boxes; (b) a post fixed beneath a door-sill on each side, to take the strain of the wheels of a vehicle when passing over it. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > threshold or door-step > attachment to take strain of wheels wheel-piece1833 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §889 The sill of the door..sunk level with the threshing-floor, and supported by two stout posts or wheel-pieces. wheel-pit n. (a) a space enclosed by masonry for a large wheel, as a fly-wheel or turbine, to turn in; (b) dialect a whirlpool. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > whirlpool > [noun] swallowa700 weelc897 suckc1220 swallowinga1387 swelthc1400 swirlc1425 gorce1480 vorage1490 whirlpool1530 gourd1538 gulf1538 poolc1540 hurlpool1552 whirlpit1564 sea-gulf1571 maelstrom1588 vorago1654 well1654 gurges1664 gurge1667 swelchiea1688 vortex1704 tourbillion1712 whirly-pool1727 wheel-pit1828 sea-puss1839 turn-hole1851 suck-hole1909 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > space for race1825 wheel-pit1828 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Wheel-pit, a whirlpool. 1850 S. Judd Richard Edney iii. 43 The subordinate branches were carried on below, under the ‘bed’, or main floor of the mill, near the wheel-pit. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wheel-pit, a walled hole for the heavy fly-wheel of a train of rolls, etc. wheel-plate n. (a) the part of a solid wheel between the rim and the hub; (b) see quot. 1892. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > other parts of lathe steel bow1680 shear1812 dog plate1834 wheel-plate1859 turning-gauge1877 spur centre1881 tail-pin1887 cat-head1940 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > sway-bar or turning-plate sway-bar1796 turning-plate1797 sweep-bar1802 sway plate1842 sweeping-bar1859 wheel-plate1859 fifth-wheel1874 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > wheel-plate wheel-plate1859 1859 Carriage Builders' Art Jrnl. i. 7/2 In Broughams,..when a wheel-plate twenty-two inches in diameter is used, a shortening of nine inches is gained between the fore and hind wheels. 1881 J. W. Burgess Pract. Treat. Coach-building 92 The central circle is the wheel-plate, or, as the Americans term it, the fifth wheel. 1892 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. (ed. 2) Quadrant Plate, or Wheel Plate.—The plate which carries the stud wheels in the change wheel series for screw cutting in the lathe. wheel-plough n. a plough having wheels running on the ground to reduce the friction or regulate the depth of the furrow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > wheeled plough wheel-plough1707 bobtail plough1733 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 38 The Hertfordshire Wheel-Plough. 1710 D. Hilman Tusser Rediv. Sept. (1744) 119 A Wheel-Plough for Stony, and a Swing Plough for Clay. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 307 In Brabant..They use the excellent Flemish swing plough, which they call a foot plough, as it is also called in some parts of England, in contradistinction to a wheel plough. At the same time they also retain the old and heavy turn wrest plough. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 646 It must be admitted, even by the advocates of the wheel-plough, that..they cannot by any means be brought so handily to follow the undulations of the surface. wheel-press n. (a) a form of rotary printing-press; (b) a hydraulic press for moulding a solid wheel, or for fixing it on the axle. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > rotary rotary1836 wheel-press1875 society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > press > hydraulic hydrostatic press1797 water press1802 Bramah's press1846 hydraulic press1851 wheel-press1875 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wheel-press, a hydrostatic press for forcing car-wheels on to their axles and removing them. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 185 The wheel-press of Benjamin Dearborn. wheel-race n. the part of a mill-race in which the mill-wheel is fixed. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > mill-race mill-troughOE outshot1362 mill-lead1434 mill fleam1475 mill-race1478 waylead1547 mill-leat1609 waterlead1641 mill-run1652 water lane1718 wash-milla1722 overshot1760 head race1780 mill-course1804 lade1808 wheel-race1825 mill lade1827 dam- 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 104 The wheel-race should always be built in a substantial manner with masonry. wheel-rood n. = wheel-cross n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > others popinjay1322 serpent1388 moss-work1600 flame1602 frostwork1631 damask branch1634 mascaron1664 lacework1675 swash1680 branch-work1702 escallop-shella1706 festoon work1712 ovum1728 bricking1760 rising sun1787 ram's horn1842 linen-pattern1845 linen-scroll1854 wheel-rood1862 primal1875 patch ornament1878 tree1879 wheel-cross1882 skeuomorph1889 linenfold1891 taotie1915 boteh1917 pelta1935 starburst1953 quilling1972 towel-pattern- society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [noun] > cross > enclosed in ring > specific wheel-rood1862 1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 259 Here, above the chancel arch, hung a wheel-rood of exceeding beauty. wheel-rope n. Nautical †(a) cf. quot. 1495 at sense 1b; (b) a rope passing round the barrel of the steering-wheel to the tiller. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope for raising or lowering sails sail-ropec1275 wheel-rope1485 jib-halyard1726 jib-down-haul1825 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > steering equipment > [noun] > helm > steering yoke or quadrant > rope or chain yokea1625 wheel-rope1820 yoke line1822 string1852 tiller-lines1889 wheel-chain1891 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 37 Whele Ropes feble..j. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 483 The pressure of the helm strained a new wheel-rope. 1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 358 We lay to under a close-reefed main top sail, until new wheel-ropes were arranged. wheel-seat n. the part of an axle encircled by the wheel (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1884). ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Wheel-seat. wheel-set n. a pair of wheels attached to an axle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > pair of on an axle wheel-set1969 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 102/1 Provision has to be made for wheelsets to be available at the destination terminal. 1980 Sci. Amer. Aug. 33/3 A revolutionary bogie design which prevents wear on the wheel flange as the train negotiates a bend. No longer is the wheelset banging from side to side, abrading the flanges. wheel-shaped adj. having the shape of a wheel; spec. in Botany = rotate adj.2 ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having or relating to parts > of or having petals > of corolla rotated1727 personated1731 multiplicate1760 personate1760 ringent1760 rotate1760 corollaceous1775 wheel-shaped1775 multiplied1777 masked1785 multiplex1813 corolline1830 caryophyllaceous1835 the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [adjective] > circular trendledc1220 circle-likea1420 circular1430 compass?1523 compassed1551 circled1578 circuled1582 orbal1603 circulary1610 wheely1708 spherical1730 encircular1806 sphered1820 wheeled1820 moony1836 wheel-shaped1895 1775 J. Jenkinson Linnæus' Generic & Specific Descr. Brit. Plants 231 Wheel-shaped. 1895 R. Davey Sultan & Subj. (1897) I. 15 An enormous wheel-shaped box, divided into compartments. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective] dizzyc1340 turngiddy1398 turn-sickc1440 lighta1500 light-headeda1500 dozy1530 swimec1540 giddy1570 swimming1607 vertiginous1608 vertiginal1612 vertiginous1621 vertigious1623 hiddy-giddy1629 swimmering1650 wheel-sick1670 giddyish1711 swimmy1836 whizzy1866 dizzied1870 1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 141 As boyes when they have made themselves wheel-sick with turning round will lay hold on the next post to keep them from falling. wheel-skate n. a roller-skate. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > roller-skating > [noun] > roller-skate velocipede1825 roller skate1860 wheel-skate1870 skate1876 Rollerblade1985 1870 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Suppl. 8/1 A pair of wheel skates. wheel-skater n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > roller-skating > [noun] > roller-skater roller skater1868 wheel-skater1876 rollerblader1988 in-line skater1990 1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City vi The wheelskaters, and poker-players..of our time. wheel-skating n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > roller-skating > [noun] roller skating1866 wheel-skating1875 skating1876 rollering1880 in-line skating1987 rollerblading1988 1875 Field 2 Jan. 1/3 The wheel-skating at Brighton and at Prince's. wheel slip n. the failure of the wheels of a vehicle to grip the surface on which they are travelling, so that they slip instead of rolling; also (rare) as v. intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > skid > of wheels skid1838 wheel slip1945 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > specific movement of wheels lock1794 skidding1889 shimmying1919 shimmy1925 wheel spin1928 wheel wobble1930 tramp1935 wheel slip1945 1945 H. J. Massingham Wisdom of Fields x. 193 A tractor was ploughing in the stubble... The machine was wheel-slipping. Wheel-slip means [sc. causes] soil-panning and winter-souring of it;..it means waste. 1960 Times 14 Mar. 21/2 Wheel-slip, with wheeled tractors, can be an intolerable nuisance. 1983 Austral. Transport Feb. 21/2 The locomotives are equipped with greatly improved wheel slip controls. wheel-spicule n. Zoology one of certain disk-shaped calcareous concretions, with an appearance of radiating spokes, in the skin of some holothurians; also, a wheel-shaped spicule in sponges. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > parts of > sponge spicule > wheel-shaped amphidisc1867 wheel-spicule1877 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of (sea-cucumber) > parts of > calcareous formation in integument rotula1858 wheel-spicule1877 rotule1882 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 639/2 Wheel-spicule of Chirodota vitiensis. wheel spin n. the spinning of the wheels of a vehicle, caused by hard acceleration of the engine combined with the failure of the wheels to take a grip on a slippery surface. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > specific movement of wheels lock1794 skidding1889 shimmying1919 shimmy1925 wheel spin1928 wheel wobble1930 tramp1935 wheel slip1945 1928 Daily Tel. 11 Sept. 15/6 He took a grassy approach too wide, and had a wheel spin, from which he cleverly recovered. 1937 Times 13 Apr. p. xvi/4 On a sandy gradient of about 1 in 2, the vehicle was stopped and started, ascending and descending. No wheel spin or baulking was noticed. 1956 Railway Mag. Nov. 722/1 Steps already had been taken to check wheelspin. 1979 ‘R. Lewis’ Violent Death i. 7 The van came lurching..from under the trees... Wheel~spin threw up a mist of pine needles. wheel-spur n. (ME also wheel-spore) the ridge on the inner side of a wheel-rut (cf. spoor n.1, and cart n.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > for carts > rut in wheel-spurc1440 cart-spur1483 fossea1500 slough1532 wheel-track1552 wheel-rut1598 cart-rut1601 wheel-tread1735 cart-ruck1820 ruck1820 cart-track1824 society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > left by the passage of something swathc888 forec1250 vorea1387 tracec1420 track1470 rut1552 fore-step1562 cart-rut1601 trail1610 strake1617 cart-ritta1657 cart-ruck1820 wheel-spura1825 wake1851 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 524/1 Whele spore (K., H. welspore), orbita. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) If, to avoid the deep rut, a carriage drawn by a single horse was ventured upon the quarter, the horse was obliged to make the wheel-spur his path, often a very unsafe one, particularly in stiff soils. wheel-stitch n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other chain-stitch1598 French knot1623 picot1623 petty-point1632 tent-stitch1639 brede-stitch1640 herringbone stitch1659 satin stitch1664 feather-stitch1835 Gobelin stitch1838 crowfoot1839 seedingc1840 German stitch1842 petit point1842 long stitch1849 looped stitch1851 hem-stitch1853 loop-stitch1853 faggot stitch1854 spider-wheel1868 dot stitch1869 picot stitch1869 slip-stitch1872 coral-stitch1873 stem stitch1873 rope stitch1875 Vienna cross stitch1876 witch stitch1876 pin stitch1878 seed stitch1879 cushion-stitch1880 Japanese stitch1880 darning-stitch1881 Kensington stitch1881 knot-stitch1881 bullion knot1882 cable pattern1882 Italian stitch1882 lattice-stitch1882 queen stitch1882 rice stitch1882 shadow-stitch1882 ship-ladder1882 spider-stitch1882 stem1882 Vandyke stitch1882 warp-stitch1882 wheel-stitch1882 basket-stitch1883 outline stitch1885 pointing1888 bullion stitchc1890 cable-stitchc1890 oriental stitchc1890 Turkish stitchc1890 Romanian stitch1894 shell-stitch1895 saddle stitch1899 magic stitch1900 plumage-stitch1900 saddle stitching1902 German knot stitch1903 trellis1912 padding stitch1913 straight stitch1918 Hungarian stitch1921 trellis stitch1921 lazy daisy1923 diamond stitchc1926 darning1930 faggot filling stitch1934 fly stitch1934 magic chain stitch1934 glove stitch1964 pad stitch1964 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 195/2 Wheel Stitch, a stitch resembling a spider's web, and worked into the material, and not over an open space, like English wheel and other lace Wheels. wheel-stock n. local (a) the nave of a wheel, or timber to be used for this; (b) wood materials for wheel-making. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for making wheels wheel-stock1835 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for making wheels > for specific parts ringwood1614 wheel-stock1835 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > hub or nave naveeOE nathea1325 nave stocka1333 navelc1425 navel-stockc1425 stock1585 hub1652 wheel-nave1707 wheel-stock1835 wheel-head1845 1835 D. Webster Orig. Sc. Rhymes 41 My mither..bang'd her bobbin down on the wheel stock. 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 515 Manufacturers of cooperage and wheel stock. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Wheel-stock, the nave of a wheel. wheel-stone n. a fossil consisting of a detached joint of the stem of an encrinite, and having the form of a circular disk with a central perforation; an entrochite. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > fossil or encrinite > wheel-like joint or entrochite entrochus1661 trochite1676 entrochite1681 stelechite1681 stelentrochite1681 wheel-stone1846 1846 R. Patterson Introd. Zool. 46 The detached vertebræ are well described by the common English name of ‘wheel-stones’. wheel-swarf n. [swarf n.2] the pasty substance produced by the friction of a grindstone and the cutlery ground upon it, consisting of a mixture of particles of stone and steel, and used as an airtight coating in steel-manufacture. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > other metallic materials > [noun] > swarf wheel-swarf1831 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > shaving or chip > filings filing1398 swarf1566 swarth1596 slip1667 wheel-swarf1831 swaff1846 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 229 In Sheffield, a mass of the stiff ferruginous mud, called wheelswarf,..is generally used. wheel-tax n. a tax on wheeled carriages. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on cars, carriages, or coaches wheel-tax1780 mileage1845 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland ii. xvii. 75 Taxes are inconsiderable, for there is no land tax, no poor rates..only half a wheel tax. 1888 Daily News 5 Dec. 5/4 There had been enough of this sort of wheel-tax policy tried in other places. wheel-tracery n. tracery radiating from a centre, as in a wheel-window. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > tracery > types of stump tracery1835 wheel1835 geometrical tracery1849 plate tracery1850 fanning1851 bar-tracery1861 wheel-tracery1913 mouchette1927 1913 M. Barrett Sc. Monasteries ii. v. 178 The west window contained a splendid specimen of wheel tracery. wheel-tree n. (a) a South American tree ( Aspidosperma excelsum), also called paddle-wood (cf. quot. 1866 at paddlewood n.); (b) an Australian tree ( Stenocarpus sinuatus) with flowers in circular clusters; (c) Mining (see quot. 1886). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies sweetwood1607 mastic1657 acajou1666 bastard locust tree1670 bastard locust tree1670 alligator wood1696 muskwood1696 lancewood1697 rodwood1716 cog-wood1725 soapwood1733 down tree?1740 pigeon plum1743 break-axe tree1756 horse-wood1756 loblolly whitewood1756 Spanish elm1756 trumpet-tree1756 ahuehuete1778 ocote1787 locust tree1795 Madeira wood1796 peroba1813 roble1814 louro1816 cecropia1824 purple heart1825 wallaba1825 trumpet-wood1836 gumbo-limbo1837 poui1838 quebracho1839 snake-wood1843 yacca1843 horseflesh wood1851 necklace tree1858 Honduras rosewood1860 turanira1862 softwood1864 wattle-wood1864 balsa tree1866 primavera1871 rauli1874 lemon-wood1879 wheel-tree1882 Spanish stopper1883 gurgeon-stopper1884 pinkwood-tree1884 stopper1884 sloth-tree1885 imbaubaa1893 Spanish cedar1907 amarant1909 Parana pine1916 imbuya1919 mastic-bully1920 banak1921 timbo1924 becuiba1934 society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > tackle > pulley > prop wheel-tree1882 1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants 438 Wheel Tree, or Paddle-wood (Aspidosperma excelsum)..when cut transversely the section has the appearance of the rays of a wheel. 1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 72 Wheel-tree, a prop to which the pulley on a short self-acting incline is fastened. wheel vat n. in Tanning = pinwheel n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > equipment for softening hides or leather > vat or receptacle layer1797 softening machine1875 soak1876 stock1882 milla1884 pinwheel1885 wheel vat1885 1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather 530 The skins next go into the England wheel vat..and are ‘wheeled’ in sumach liquor. wheel-way n. a way, road, or track along which wheeled vehicles run; also figurative (cf. rut n.2 1c). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles wheel-waya785 quarter-road1749 wheel-road1823 motorway1897 the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > (a) course of conduct or action wayeOE pathOE waya1225 tracea1300 line13.. dancea1352 tenor1398 featc1420 faction1447 rink?a1500 footpath1535 trade1536 vein1549 tract1575 course1582 road1600 country dance1613 track1638 steeragea1641 rhumb1666 tack1675 conduct1706 walk1755 wheel-way1829 a785 Charter of Offa in Birch Cartul. Sax. I. 342 And on hweogel weg to þan rahhege. 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) vi. 114 To lie supine in the ruinous wheel-way of chance. 1889 Cent. Mag. Aug. 570/2 Nearer the wheelway and upon the outer edges of the public road. wheel well n. the recess, under the wing of a vehicle, into which the wheel fits, or, on an aircraft, into which the landing gear is retracted. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > recess into which landing gear retracts wheel well1959 wheel bay1976 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > wing > recess into which wheel fits wheel well1959 1959 F. D. Adams Aeronaut. Dict. 181/2 Wheel well, a recess or hollow in a wing, fuselage, etc. for a retractable landing-gear wheel. 1961 N. D. van Sickle Mod. Airmanship (ed. 2) iv. 103 Having the openings closed while the gear is down is advantageous because the tires will not throw foreign matter into the wheel well during ground movement. 1974 Hot Rod Yearbk. XIV. 219/1 Epoxy paint..was also sprayed on rear inner wheel wells. 1975 Times 31 Mar. 4/1 (caption) A Boeing 727 arrives at Saigon airport..with the body of a South Vietnamese soldier hanging from the wheelwell. ΚΠ 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 213 The tayle [of the newt] standeth out betwixt the hinder legges in the midle, like the figure of a wheele-whirle [tr. Gesner: rhombi figuræ quadam similitudine]. wheel-window n. a circular window with mullions radiating from the centre like the spokes of a wheel (= Catherine wheel n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > round windows roundel1574 oeil-de-boeuf1728 marigold window1736 rose window1738 wheel-window1821 rose1823 rosette1836 rosace1837 bull's-eye1842 Catherine-wheel window1848 ox-eye1875 1821 M. Browne Jrnl. 2 May in Diary of Girl in France (1905) 25 There are [in Amiens Cathedral] two pretty painted wheel-windows. 1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vi. 63 Wheel windows are exceedingly prevalent in Italy; unfortunately the tracery is often removed. wheel-wise adv. in the manner or form of a wheel; (of swimming) with the arms moving like the spokes of a wheel. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [adverb] > in form or manner of circle or ring > in the form or manner of a wheel wheel-wise1594 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adverb] > like a wheel wheel-wise1859 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [adverb] > type of stroke in swimming wheel-wise1859 sidestroke1881 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. H4v Embossed christall eies affixed, wherein wheelewise were circularly ingrafted sharpe pointed diamonds. 1859 W. H. Gregory Egypt I. 276 Swimming as schoolboys call it wheel-wise. wheel wobble n. vibration of the wheels of a vehicle in motion, usually when travelling at some speed; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > specific movement of wheels lock1794 skidding1889 shimmying1919 shimmy1925 wheel spin1928 wheel wobble1930 tramp1935 wheel slip1945 1930 Engineering 7 Feb. 163/1 Concerned with problems of suspension and wheel wobble and shimmy. 1961 Times 17 Jan. 14/1 Apart from an alarming wheelwobble early in their second innings West Indies have had by far the best of today's play. 1978 A. Waugh Best Wine Last vii. 56 It [sc. a car] developed a wheel wobble at between forty-eight and fifty miles an hour. Draft additions 1993 U.S. slang (originally Criminals'). A leg. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun] shanka900 legc1300 grainsa1400 limbc1400 foot?a1425 stumpa1500 pin?1515 pestlea1529 boughc1550 stamp1567 understander1583 pile1584 supporters1601 walker?1611 trestle1612 fetlock1645 pedestal1695 drumstick1770 gam1785 timber1807 tram1808–18 fork1812 prop1817 nethers1822 forkals1828 understanding1828 stick1830 nether person1835 locomotive1836 nether man1846 underpinning1848 bender1849 Scotch peg1857 Scotch1859 under-pinner1859 stem1860 Coryate's compasses1864 peg1891 wheel1927 shaft1935 1927 Dial. Notes 5 466 [In underworld jargon] Wheel, a leg. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §121/62 Legs,..twigs, underpinnings, underpins, understandings, uprights, wheels. 1977 C. McFadden Serial xlviii. 102/2 His wife still had terrific wheels. 1985 ‘E. McBain’ Snow White & Rose Red ix. 164 Big blonde job, maybe five-nine, five-ten. Blue eyes. Tits out to here. Wheels like Betty Grable. Draft additions 1993 wheel-horse n. U.S. Politics an experienced and conscientious party member. ΚΠ 1867 New Mexican 24 Aug. 2/2 Carleton..worked like a beaver for Perea, and so did Perfecto Armijo, the Perea wheel horse in that county then. 1932 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 187/2 Scandals..that..sent various high Republican wheel horses to the penitentiary. 1991 Economist 4 May 44/3 Another Minnesotan Rudy exploring the secondary job-market is ex-Senator Rudy Boschwitz, a faithful Republican wheel-horse until he lost in 1989 to that liberal-Democratic upstart, Paul Wellstone. Draft additions December 2003 wheels of industry n. (the functioning or progress of) manufacturing industry, conceived of as the wheels or workings of a machine. ΚΠ 1768 W. Wilkie Fables 55 Just hope assists in all our toils; The wheels of industry it oils. 1840 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 490 The voice of poetry was too small and still to make itself heard amidst the din of the wheels of industry. 1866 Ladies' Repository Oct. 613 The clatter of business is hushed, the wheels of industry stand still, but thought is busy and brings up the past for a calm review. 1941 J. S. M. Simpson S. Afr. Fights 113 The wheels of industry travelled faster and faster. From Canada and the United States came motor parts and chassis, which would form the basis of armoured cars. 1992 Sunday Times of India 19 Apr. 23/1 The ban by the transport operators would stop all trade and industrial activity in the state and choke up the wheels of industry. Draft additions June 2016 wheels of steel n. Music colloquial turntables; record decks; (esp. with reference to club DJs). ΚΠ 1981 ‘Grandmaster Flash’ (title of song) The adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the wheels of steel. 1993 URB 7 July 34/1 For years, the much revered and often mystified ‘wheels of steel’ have been dominated by men. 2008 Time Out N.Y. 15 May 85/2 DJs Benzi, Donnis, Jayceeoh and Jesse Marco working the wheels of steel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2022). wheelv. I. To move like a wheel (and connected senses). * 1. a. intransitive. To turn or revolve about an axis or centre, like a wheel on its axle; to rotate; to whirl. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > as a wheel overturn?c1225 wheel?c1225 cartwheel1920 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 262 Habeoð her hweolinde as þehweoles ouerturneð sone ne letteð nane hwile. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cvii. 73 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 172 Now shipp with men do touch the skies:..For now the whirlwinde makes them wheele: Now stop'd in midst of broken round As drunckards vse, they staggring reele. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xii. 18 His glory sound thou first Mobile, which makst all wheele In circle round. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 426 If the Earth wheels around it's axis. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xxi. 162 When the whirlwind's gusts are wheeling. a1822 P. B. Shelley Masque of Anarchy (1832) lxxviii. 40 Let the horsemen's scimitars Wheel and flash, like sphereless stars. 1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 23 The gates which lead to the Elysian fields may slowly wheel back on their adamantine hinges. b. figurative of time, the seasons. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [verb (intransitive)] > turn or revolve wheel1660 the world > time > period > cycle of time > [verb (intransitive)] > turn, cycle, or revolve (of time) revolve1449 cycle1842 wheela1849 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 146 When they beheld the course of the Heavens, and the various seasons of the year, to wheel about, and return in certain order. a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 35 When Years have wheeled. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 152 I wait, and Time around me wheels. c. To reel, as from giddiness; to be affected with giddiness. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > have vertigo [verb (intransitive)] turnOE swimblea1400 whirl1561 wheel1593 whim1700 reel1701 swim1702 swirl1818 spin1819 giddy1845 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > reel, stagger, or sway unsteadily stackera1300 welt13.. waggera1382 swaver?a1400 blundc1400 swab14.. swabble14.. gogglec1460 reel1477 galay1489 stagger1530 swag1530 stag1561 wheel1832 swig1833 wavel1896 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 61v Why doe not all thinges wheele and swarue topsie-turuy? 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 116 If these giddy goers bee forced to giue a reason for their wheeling vp and downe the streets. 1638 R. Younge Drunkard's Char. 154 No man ever saw mee so much as wheele in the streets; I am therefore no drunkard. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. viii. 102 [His] head wheeled with the sudden change in his prospects. 2. a. transitive. To turn (something) on or as on a wheel; to cause to revolve about an axis; to rotate; to cause to move in a circle or cycle.Used with variety of context, literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > as (on) a wheel turnOE swinga1225 wheelc1374 to turn abouta1382 overwhelmc1440 swinge1548 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 139 Fortune on loft And vnder eft gan hem to whielen bothe. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2419 in Poems (1981) 90 Thus fairis it off fortoun: As ane cummis vp, scho quheillis ane vther doun. 1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) iii. met. ix. 3 Thou..who time from first Bidst go, and stable stedy all elz dost while. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iii. xvii. 284 In the execution of their rites, shaking and wheeling their heads like madde men. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iv. 168 Affaires in Court were not long wheeled about vpon one Axell-tree. 1654 A. Johnston Diary (1919) II. 197 The Lord semes to be wheeling al things about to the re-establishing of that Covenant agayne. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 501 Now Heav'n..rowld Her motions, as the great first-Movers hand First wheeld thir course. View more context for this quotation 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iv. ii. 161 Others will have the Arm to be wheeled about by the Infraspinatus. 1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 31 While through the thronged streets your bridal car Wheels round its dazzling spokes. 1855 E. Forbes Lit. Papers ix. 250 The Lamas, whose temples, modes of worship,..compendious methods of wheeling their prayers, [etc.]. 1875 R. Browning tr. Eurpipides Herakles in Aristophanes' Apol. 1397 I shall play Ixion's part quite out, the chained and wheeled. b. spec. To twirl or flourish (a stick) in menace or challenge. Also absol. (in Irish use). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > flourish or brandish shakec1000 stirc1275 wagc1300 brandisha1340 flourishc1384 swinga1400 swinglec1450 ruffle?1562 sweak1567 vambrash1577 sway1590 swinge1605 to fetch about1609 wave1609 wheel1617 evibrate1654 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > strike with specific blunt weapon [verb (transitive)] > brandish stick wheel1617 society > armed hostility > [verb (intransitive)] > challenge to hostilities to cast (out) the gauntlet1548 wheel1875 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with a flourish > make flourishing or brandishing movement flourish1594 to fetch about1609 swipe1825 wheel1893 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > use specific blunt weapon [verb (intransitive)] > brandish stick wheel1893 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 243 If at any time we went slowly, hee wheeled his cudgell about his head, and crying Wohowe Rooe [etc.]. 1875 Daily News 26 Feb. ‘Wheeling,’ said he, ‘is one of those challenges which is given by this energetic population to express their own anxiety for a free fight.’ 1893 W. R. Le Fanu 70 Years Irish Life iii. 32 One man ‘wheeled,’ as they called it, for his party; that is, he marched up and down, flourishing his blackthorn, and shouting the battle-cry of his faction. 3. Military. a. intransitive. Of a rank or body of troops: To turn, with a movement like that of the spokes of a wheel, about a pivot (pivot n. 4), so as to change front. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [verb (intransitive)] > wheel wheel1579 over-wheel1832 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 111 The Ruyters vse to Wheele about with their whole Troupe. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 322 He saw them in thir forms of battell rang'd, How quick they wheel'd . View more context for this quotation 1672 T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline 62 Right half ranks, wheel about to the right until they be even a breast with the front half files. 1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 212 The Colonel..said, wheel to the left of the Battalion. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. viii. 163 Leading file, to the right wheel—Trot. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 9 Left wheel into line. Quick march. b. transitive. To cause (a rank or body of troops) to turn in this way. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [verb (transitive)] > wheel wheel1627 1627 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman (rev. ed.) xvi*. 226 (margin) Wheele the Bodye to the Right hand. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 110 I wheel'd off my Troop. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xvi. 249 He wheeled his little body of cavalry around the base of the castle. View more context for this quotation 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 34 The ranks are then wheeled up. 4. a. intransitive. To turn so as to face in a different direction; to turn round or aside, esp. quickly or suddenly. Often with round, about, †off. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > turn round or to face a direction > turn to opposite direction turnc1225 bewenda1300 to turn aboutc1330 returna1470 wheel1639 face1644 to turn on one's heel1669 to turn around1756 to turn round1787 about-face1896 about-turn1927 U-turn1931 U1971 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xi. 127 The French and English wheeling about, charged the Turks most furiously. 1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 148 The rebells wheeled off behind their owne cannon and musqueteers. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 105 How to the Head they press, Justling in close Array, then more diffuse Obliquely wheel. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 518 His steed Declin'd the death, and wheeling swiftly round..Baffled his rider. 1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xii. 251 A party of five Highland soldiers..wheeled suddenly into sight. 1867 J. T. Headley Farragut & Naval Commanders 575 [The captain] wheeled out of line and ran with a full head of steam on straight into the ironclad monster. 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children vii. 50 He wheeled round from the window as if he was about to confront Halliday and offer to fight him on the spot. b. figurative. To change or reverse one's opinion, attitude, or course of action; to turn aside, deviate, decline from some course or attitude. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's opinion [verb (intransitive)] bowa1000 forthinkc1380 to think again1493 recogitate1603 deflect1612 wheel1632 to turn round1808 to flop (over)1884 budge1930 1632 G. Herbert Church Milit. 54 Plato and Aristotle were at a losse, And wheel'd about again to spell Christ-Crosse. 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 27 Who had wheeled from his Loyalty during the War. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 413 From Independents they improved into Anabaptists. From Anabaptists into Quakers: From whence being able to advance no further, they are in a fair Way to wheel about to the other Extreme of Popery. 1784 P. Wright New Bk. Martyrs 807/2 Jeffreys summed up the evidence against the parson, but wheeled at last into this. c. transitive. To turn (a person, animal, or thing) round or aside. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > turn (something) to a (different) direction i-wendeOE wendOE turnc1300 convertc1384 avirec1440 kyr1448 twine1600 wheel1805 to put about1832 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel ii. viii. 40 So had he seen, in fair Castile, The youth in glittering squadrons start; Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. 1829 G. Head Forest Scenes N. Amer. 121 Wheeled round every now and then by the wind, we were enveloped in clouds. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xix Wheeling his horse suddenly round, he charged along the advancing front of the people. ** 5. a. intransitive. To move like a point in the circumference of a wheel; to move in a circle, spiral, or similar curve; to circle, revolve; to go round about. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > move in a circle or curve [verb (intransitive)] wheel1600 round1674 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > make curved course windc1385 wheel1600 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. 862 He commaunded two elect cohorts of footmen to wheele about the right flanke of the enemies. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. vii. 19 I was forc'd to wheele Three or foure miles about. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 185 I might see him send two horsemen after me, who wheeling about the mountaines,..suddenly rushed vpon me. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 72 These two Planets have Moons wheeling about them. 1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 31 The Son of May..wheeling down the Steep of Heav'n he flies, And draws a radiant Circle o'er the Skies. 1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 199 The Cormorant on high Wheels from the Deep. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcvi. 147 When all is gay..With sport and song,..And wheels the circled dance. 1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 29 Aug. 12/2 The gulls that wheel and dip around me. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 207 The old lost stars wheel back, dear lass, That blaze in the velvet blue. b. transitive. To cause (something) to move in this way; to perform (a movement), trace (a course), spend (a time) in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > cause to move in circle or curve [verb (transitive)] wheel1725 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 704 'Till the twelfth moon had wheel'd her pale career. 1751 T. Gray Elegy ii. 5 Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xx. 347 Wheeling their march, and circling still, Around the base of Flodden-hill. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Happy Husband in Sibyll. Leaves 158 Transient joys, that..into tenderness soon dying, Wheel out their giddy moment. 1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 21 Hawks of every sort and size wheel their steady rounds above the rice-fields. 1846 Ld. Tennyson Golden Year in Poems (ed. 4) II. 89 The Sun flies forward to his brother Sun; The dark Earth follows wheel'd in her ellipse. 6. transferred. a. intransitive. To extend in a circle or curve. ? Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > change direction > turn or bend > extend in a curve bowa1425 wheel1648 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xvii. 114 In a narrow passage where the way went wheeling. 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 112 Coal and coal metals..wave and wheel. 1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery II. 120 A forest-lawn,..which wheeled around us in the form of a crescent. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] befong971 beclipc1000 begoc1000 belieOE bestandc1000 to go about ——OE umbegangc1200 behema1250 befallc1275 berunc1275 girdc1290 bihalvena1300 umlapa1300 umlaya1300 umlouka1300 umbegoc1300 belayc1320 halsea1340 enclose1340 umbelapa1350 embracec1360 betrendc1374 circlec1374 umbecasta1375 to give about1382 environa1393 umbeclipa1395 compassa1400 encircle?a1400 enourle?a1400 umbegivea1400 umbeseta1400 umbeliec1400 umbetighc1400 enroundc1420 measurec1425 umbsteadc1450 adviron?1473 purprise1481 umbeviron1489 belta1500 girtha1500 overgirda1500 engirt15.. envirea1513 round?a1513 brace1513 umbereach1513 becompass1520 circuea1533 girtc1540 umbsetc1540 circule1553 encompass1555 circulate?a1560 ingyre1568 to do about1571 engird1573 circumdate1578 succinge1578 employ1579 circuate1581 girdle1582 wheel1582 circumgyre1583 enring1589 ringa1592 embail1593 enfold1596 invier1596 stem1596 circumcingle1599 ingert1599 engirdle1602 circulize1603 circumscribe1605 begirt1608 to go round1610 enwheela1616 surround1616 shingle1621 encirculize1624 circumviron1632 beround1643 orba1644 circumference1646 becircle1648 incircuitc1650 circumcinge1657 circumtend1684 besiege1686 cincture1789 zone1795 cravat1814 encincture1820 circumvent1824 begirdle1837 perambulate1863 cordon1891 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 32 He spyed his person with Troian coompanye wheeled. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 783 Half these draw off, and coast the South With strictest watch; these other wheel the North. View more context for this quotation *** 7. intransitive. To roll along like a wheel. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > roll along > like a wheel wheel1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 183 Haile mixt with fire must rend th' Egyptian Skie And wheel on th' Earth, devouring where it rouls. View more context for this quotation 1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 355 The waves at the outer end wheeled at a swift gallop. II. To move on, or by means of, wheels. * 8. a. transitive. To convey in a wheeled vehicle, or on a chair, sofa, etc. moving on wheels. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > by wheeled vehicle roll?a1505 harlc1600 wheel1601 trundle1773 bowla1822 1601 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 139 For whellinge forth xxv quarters of colles, vjd. 1740 E. Montagu Let. 7 Jan. (1809) I. 78 Lord — was wheeled into the Rooms on Thursday night, where he saluted me with much snuff and civility. 1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife i. 18 You shall clap Her into a Post-Chaise..wheel Her down to Scotland. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxix. 282 Let the gardener..press the leaves into full barrows, and wheel them off, still they lie ankle-deep. 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children vi. 40 She was able to totter to the sofa and be wheeled into the adjoining room. b. figurative. To pass or convey easily or smoothly, as if on wheels. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > pass time easily wheel1656 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to move along smoothly > as if on wheels wheel1656 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 23 Through the paucity of her Citizens, her greater Magistracies are continually wheeled through a few hands. 1689 E. Hickeringill Ceremony-monger vi, in Wks. (1716) II. 444 We'll have as many Organs..if we have nothing else to do with our Money; or cannot tell how to wheel off an hour or two in Devotions. 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows ii. xii. 105 As some smooth river which hath overflowed, Doth slow and silent down its current wheel A loosened forest. c. colloquial. To bring (someone) in, as for an interview, meeting, performance, etc. Also, with similar meaning, const. on, out. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > bring in bringc950 inbringc1000 embringc1325 inveigh1486 importa1529 introduct1570 introduce1639 in1825 wheel1970 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > lead or bring out out-leadeOE outbringeOE forthbringc1000 leadc1275 wheel1970 1970 New Yorker 28 Feb. 29/3 The Administration wheels out what are at the moment issues..which everyone can agree on. 1977 M. Allen Spence in Petal Park xviii. 78 Wheel Prendergast straight in when he arrives. 1978 Daily Mirror 12 Jan. 2/4 The agreed quota for Japanese car imports in 1977 should be wheeled out again for 1978. 1983 Listener 20 Oct. 27/1 ‘Celebrities’ were wheeled in before a studio audience. 1984 Times 9 Feb. 11/5 This new element is wheeled in when cousins come to stay. 1984 Times 15 Aug. 11/1 Kenny Everett..was wheeled on with other celebrities to warm up a Conservative rally for the Leader in the course of last year's general election campaign here. 1984 Times 8 Dec. 6/4 Although his field is limited to southern France from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the French media wheels him out to make pronouncements on Giscard's reign, his reservations about Mitterand's regime, or whether Nazi war criminals like Barbie should be executed. 9. intransitive. To travel in or drive a wheeled vehicle; to go along on wheels, as a vehicle; colloquial to ride a bicycle or tricycle, to ‘cycle’. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle rolla1522 wheel1721 bowl1759 hurl1795 trundle1841 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > go along on wheels runc1350 roll1655 wheel1721 society > travel > transport > cycling > cycle [verb (intransitive)] bicycle1869 cycle1878 wheel1884 bike1885 push-bike1914 1721 A. Ramsay Content 351 He found he could not walk,..and wheel'd away. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 42 By the time he [sc. a coachman] had wheel'd round the court, and brought me up to the door. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. v. 73 The chaise-and-four wheeled off with some grandeur. View more context for this quotation 1884 Cent. Mag. Sept. 643/2 A youth on a bicycle, who wheeled attentively by her side. 1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story v. 48 Both trains were wheeling down under the bridge at a forty-mile gait. 10. a. transitive. To push or draw (something) on wheels. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > something on wheels wheel1785 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 37 Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. v. 76 The sofa was wheeled into the hall where they dined. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son xlix. 483 He wheeled the table close against Florence on the sofa. 1885 Law Times 79 47/1 A porter..put all the luggage on a trolley..and wheeled the trolley on to the platform. 1896 H. G. Wells Wheels of Chance ix The other man in brown had a bad puncture and was wheeling his machine. b. To drive a car slowly, as when manœuvring into or out of a car park. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > drive a motor vehicle > drive slowly wheel1962 1962 R. Unekis Chase (1963) vii. 20 Grozzo wheeled the Olds into the big parking area. 1974 N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 182 It was Castang who wheeled the Citroën out of the parking-lot. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 11 Dec. 8/2 I wheeled the bright-blue test car into a parking space. ** ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase the intensity of multiplya1398 sharpenc1450 heighten1523 height1528 strengthen1546 aggravate1549 enhance1559 intend1603 enrich1620 re-enforce1625 wheel1632 reinforce1660 support1691 richen1795 to give a weight to1796 intensify1817 exalt1850 intensate1856 to step up1920 to hot up1937 ramp1981 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > operate mechanism [verb (transitive)] > wind up to wind upa1616 wheel1632 1632 Mason's Turke (ed. 2) Argt. There are other passages of Triuiall Inferior persons, Interwouen into this peice, which serue as a foyle to the Brauery and hight of the Tragedy, yet are Instruments aptly set going to wheele vp the worke. III. Miscellaneous uses. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > spread tail (of peacock) wheela1513 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [verb (transitive)] > spread tail (of peacock) wheel1656 a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xvii. sig. f.iii Prowde as a Pecocke, whelynge full bryght. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xix. 115 You neede no other signe then his [sc. the peacock's] viewing of himselfe, and couering of his whole bodie with the feathers of his taile, and then we say hee wheeleth. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xvi. §137 The most fair is the Peacock, ever and anon wheeling his glorious tail. 1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry viii. xi. 13. transitive. To make like a wheel; to give a circular or curved form to. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curve or bend [verb (transitive)] beyc888 bowa1300 incrooka1340 inbowa1382 crook1382 plya1393 inflectc1425 courbe1430 wryc1450 cralla1475 crumbc1490 bought1521 compass1542 incurvate1578 ploy1578 incurve1610 curve1615 circumflex1649 wheel1656 curb1662 crumpa1821 curvaturec1933 the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > make round [verb (transitive)] > make circular wheel1656 decircinate1683 circularize1799 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xxi. §203 The hair covereth the chiefest part of the head, being wheeled on the crown [L .capilli..rotati in vertice]. 1808 W. Scott Marmion v. vi. 249 At every turn, with dinning clang, The armourers' anvil clashed and rang; Or toiled the swarthy smith, to wheel The bar that arms the charger's heel. 14. To furnish with a wheel or wheels. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > furnish with wheel(s) [verb (transitive)] wheel1802 1661 [implied in: 1661 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 334 Stocking and wheeling of the same [sc. bells]. (at wheeling n. f)]. 1802 H. Martin Helen of Glenross I. 46 She begged leave to paint, glaze, new carpet, and new wheel the old coach. 1898 Daily News 21 Feb. 6/5 The gearing and wheeling of the cars. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > on wheel stentc1480 wheel1611 to break on the wheela1640 1611 [implied in: T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ff6v The fifth and last punishment is wheeling, which is onely for murderers. (at wheeling n. h)]. 16. To form or shape on a wheel, as pottery. 17. Tanning. = pinwheel v. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > other processes curry14.. shave1467 dress1511 slaughter1603 raise1607 scutch1688 chamois1728 braya1835 break1842 fellmonger1843 fire-cure1848 crimp1849 board1860 pebble1862 soft-board1878 sam1883 stock1883 nourish1884 buff1885 pinwheel1885 sammy1885 wheel1885 unlime1888 1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather 530 The skins next go into the England wheel vat..and are ‘wheeled’ in sumach liquor. 18. To mark out with a wheel. ΚΠ 1895 J. E. Davis Elem. Mod. Dressmaking (ed. 2) 5 Each piece should be pinned down previously to cutting out, care being taken to put the pins between the fitting-lines, and not across them, that in the after wheeling-out they may not need removing. 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