Crossword clues for wheelwork
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wheelwork \Wheel"work`\, n. (Mach.) A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
Wiktionary
n. An assembly of wheels serving a mechanical purpose.
WordNet
n. mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears)
Usage examples of "wheelwork".
The two sets of wheelwork registers numbers from one to ten thousands, or from halfpennies up, if you wish it for finance.
There was another hat with the clothes, one with a silver band of Mexican wheelwork girdling the crown, but he could not induce himself to put this on.
It would seem to be time, then, for the pivots to be disclosed on which some of the wheelwork of the last six years has been moving.
The silent wheelwork of conspiracy had now been in operation for upward of a year.
It might have been that the wheelwork was connected with, or answerable for, those motions of the head and hands although even in this the agency of a sentient being seemed essential.
He believed men controlled the course of their lives, just as the wheelwork of a clock controlled the motion of the hands.