wheel-basen. 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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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.