Crossword clues for felloe
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Felly \Fel"ly\, n.; pl. Fellies. [OE. feli, felwe, felow, AS. felg, felge; akin to D. velg, G. felge, OHG. felga felly (also, a harrow, but prob. a different word), Dan. felge.] The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes. [Written also felloe.]
Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rim of a spoked wheel," early 15c., variant of felie (c.1200), from Old English felga, plural of felg "rim of a wheel," from Proto-Germanic *felz- (cognates: Old Saxon felga, Middle Dutch velge, Dutch velg, Old High German felga, German Felge).
Wiktionary
n. The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
WordNet
n. rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted [syn: felly]
Usage examples of "felloe".
Wheels wet and yellow from axle to felloe, Throats blank of sound, but prophetic to sight.
There was a window at each side, and the roof sloped up steeply above the actual shop, and under the apex, set partly in plaster, was a wheel, the hub cracked, the felloes springing out here and there from the rim.
The vehicle was a cart twenty feet long, covered over by a tilt, and resting on four large wheels without spokes or felloes, or iron tires-- in a word, plain wooden discs.
Several times, the whole train had to stop entirely, to repair broken wheel spokes, sprung felloes, torn harness, or to replace thrown horseshoes.
A door or a gate serves its purpose by an application wholly foreign to itself, but it is a good and effective, or a bad and ineffective, piece of construction, independently of the posts to which it may be hung, whilst the wheel of a wheelbarrow, comprising felloes, spokes and axletree, is a piece of construction complete in itself, and independent as such of everything beyond it.
After that initiation, which continued for several months, I was moved to the less physically demanding but more exacting work of learning to cut, turn and smooth the wood for the spokes and felloes of the wheels.
Calumet chuckled grimly as, with his head slightly above the edge of the gully and concealed behind the felloes of the wagon wheel, he made an examination of the rocks beyond the wagon.
He shoved his arm slowly forward so that it lay extended along the ground the barrel of the pistol resting on the felloes of the wheel.
The wheels shrank and the spokes reeled in their hubs and clattered like loom-shafts and at night they'd drive false spokes into the mortices and tie them down with strips of green hide and they'd drive wedges between the iron of the tires and the suncracked felloes.