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wheeln.

Brit. /wiːl/, U.S. /(h)wil/
Forms: Old English hweogol, hweogul, hweogel, hweowol, hweowul, hweowl, hweohl, Old English–Middle English hweol, hwel, Middle English weole, wel, Middle English–1500s whel, Middle English–1600s whele, Middle English wele, ( whiel), northern quele, Middle English–1500s Scottish quhele, Middle English–1600s wheele, Scottish quheill, (Old English hwiol, Middle English wheol, weol, ȝweol, ȝwele, Middle English wheole, woele, hueȝel, whewel, northern quel, quile, quil, Scottish quhel, Middle English wheyle, whelle, whyll, wyle, northern quheyll, qweyll, qwell, Middle English–1500s wheylle, northern qwhele, qwele, quheil(e, quhell, 1500s wheill, whefyll, wheale, whieale, weil, whyl(l)e, qwyl, Scottish vheill, vhel(e, while, 1600s Scottish quheele), Middle English– wheel.
Etymology: Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwéol = Old Frisian *hwêl (East Frisian weel, wêil, North Frisian well), (Middle) Low German wêl, (Middle) Dutch wiel (whence German wiel in technical senses), Old Norse hjól (Swedish, Danish hjul), hvél < Old Germanic *χwe(g)ula-, *χweχula- < Indo-European *qweqwlo- represented by Sanskrit cakrá- circle, wheel, Avestan caχrəm, Greek κύκλος; reduplicated < *qwelo-: *qwolo-, represented by Old Norse hvel, hvela (Norwegian kvel), Old Prussian kelan wheel, Greek πόλος axis, pole, ploughed-up land, Latin colus distaff, Old Church Slavonic kolo wheel; the root meaning of qwel- is ‘to turn’ (compare Sanskrit cárati to move, Avestan čaraiti ‘versatur’, Greek πέλεσθαι to be in motion, Latin colere to till, in-quil-īnus sojourner).
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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
e. musical wheel, the revolving barrel of a barrel organ or musical box.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
4. A turnstile or similar contrivance at the entrance of a convent. Also turning-wheel (turning-wheel n. at turning adj. Compounds). Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
c. a word on its (or upon the) wheels: an echo of the marginal ‘Hebrew spoken vpon his wheeles’ in the King James version of Proverbs xxv. 11, where the text has ‘fitly spoken’. Obsolete.Hebrew 'ophnāw (dual or plural) of this passage is now regarded as ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, and ‘al-'ophnāw interpreted as ‘in its turns’, ‘in (right) circumstances’; formerly referred to 'ôphen a wheel.
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’.
b. Alchemy. A series of operations by which one element was supposed to be converted into another.
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
c. = turn n. 8. Obsolete. rare.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
wheel-bed n. Obsolete a trundle-bed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
wheel-fire n. [modern Latin ignis rotae] Obsolete in Old Chemistry, a fire completely encompassing a crucible.
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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.
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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.).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Wheel-seat.
wheel-set n. a pair of wheels attached to an axle.
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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
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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.
wheel-sick adj. Obsolete giddy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.).
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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.).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
wheel-whirl n. Obsolete (see quot.).
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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).
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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.
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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.

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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.

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wheel-horse n. U.S. Politics an experienced and conscientious party member.
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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.

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wheels of industry n. (the functioning or progress of) manufacturing industry, conceived of as the wheels or workings of a machine.
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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.

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wheels of steel n. Music colloquial turntables; record decks; (esp. with reference to club DJs).
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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.

Brit. /wiːl/, U.S. /(h)wil/
Forms: see prec.
Etymology: < wheel n.
I. To move like a wheel (and connected senses).
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
figurative.1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 128 But I wheel too far about.1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 132 Those occurrences which wheeled in their Sphere.1749 T. Smollett Regicide iv. ii. 50 Love, Jealousy, implacable Despair In Tempests wheel.
b. transitive. To cause (something) to move in this way; to perform (a movement), trace (a course), spend (a time) in this way.
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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.
b. transitive. To encircle, surround, encompass. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)]
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belieOE
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to go about ——OE
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to do about1571
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girdle1582
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circumcingle1599
ingert1599
engirdle1602
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circumscribe1605
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to go round1610
enwheela1616
surround1616
shingle1621
encirculize1624
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beround1643
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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
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7. intransitive. To roll along like a wheel. rare.
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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.
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8.
a. transitive. To convey in a wheeled vehicle, or on a chair, sofa, etc. moving on wheels.
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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’.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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11. ? To wind up the mechanism of: in quot. 1632 figurative. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
12. intransitive. Of a peacock: To spread the tail in a circular form like a wheel. Also transitive with the tail as object. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
15. To torture or ‘break’ on a wheel. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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.
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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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