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wheel
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. change directions as if revolving on a pivot; "They wheeled their horses around and left" [syn: wheel around ] wheel somebody or something [syn: wheel around ] move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; "The President's convoy rolled past ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axle bearing . The wheel is one of the main components of the wheel and axle which is one of the six simple machines . Wheels, in conjunction with axles, allow heavy objects to be moved easily ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wheel \Wheel\, v. i. To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate. The moon carried about the earth always shows the same face to us, not once wheeling upon her own center. --Bentley. To change direction, as if revolving ...
Usage examples of wheel.
A swarm of birds-gulls and ternswas wheeling over half an acre of water that seemed to be aboil with living things.
The Duchesse de Luynes allowed the special wheelbarrow she had had made in acajou to be wheeled by the flower girls who were her teammates.
Leaving a dozen men with buckets, readily filled from the acequia which turned the old water wheel just across the post of No.
Down in the village decisions were made, things were done, life went on in the knowledge that in her old wheeled shepherding hut on the hills Granny Aching was there, watching.
Fifty eggs well fried will yield about five ounces of this oil, which is acrid, and so enduringly liquid that watch-makers use it for lubricating the axles and pivots of their most delicate wheels.
They sat together over a wheel, which was unfortunate, but at least Jan was not Kate, and had no need of acupressure bracelets and a large dose of Sturgeron.
There are several telephones, seven or eight chairs, two racks on wheels that contain all the charts, and an Addressograph machine used when we order lab studies, X-rays, or tests on patients.
The thing was going so fast he had but an instant apprehension of the dark figure of the aeronaut crouched together clutching at his wheel.
In the afterglow, a white ghost came wheeling through the sky below, on two wide sails.
Vrondisi, the monastery at the foot of Psiloritis, came down to the rich Turkish village of Suros and killed its bloodthirsty aga, just as he had bound two Christians to the treadmill of the well in his garden and was making them turn the wheel.
Beyond the agora, Achamian saw a cohort of birds wheeling above the great domes of the Temple Xothei, whose silhouette loomed above the tenements hedging the north end of the market.
They were on the same level now as the first of the two upper flights, which he could see were the new Fokkers, with aileron extensions and the extra lifting surface between the wheels.
He wheeled, dodged between two Danes, end vanished down a game trail with alacritous churning of short legs.
With the understanding that they would close the deal when Alec brought the cart back, he hurried off to the Wheel.
And that was the way they came in, with the uniforms saluting as Pio wheeled the Alfa under the portal and into the interior courtyard.