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What is "steering wheel"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
steering wheel
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ AlfTed said, punching the steering wheel.
▪ I flipped on the car radio, tapping on the steering wheel in time to the music.
▪ I let myself droop against the steering wheel.
▪ Jack tried but it was quite impossible; the button, like the steering wheel, was red hot.
▪ Karen smiled with enthusiasm at the car-like steering wheel of the boat.
▪ North Dakota State Highway 22-a road so straight and empty I set a book on the steering wheel and read.
▪ Shore power is standard and the rim of the steering wheel is hide covered.
▪ The device incorporates a high tensile steel tube which clamps to the steering wheel and an integral alarm.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steering wheel

Steering \Steer"ing\, a. & n. from Steer, v.

Steering wheel (Naut.), the wheel by means of which the rudder of a vessel is turned and the vessel is steered.

Wiktionary
steering wheel

n. A wheel-shaped control that is rotated by the driver to steer, existing in most modern land vehicles.

WordNet
steering wheel

n. a handwheel that is used for steering [syn: wheel]

Wikipedia
Steering wheel

A steering wheel (also called a driving wheel or a hand wheel) is a type of steering control in vehicles and vessels ( ships and boats).

Steering wheels are used in most modern land vehicles, including all mass-production automobiles, as well as buses, light and heavy trucks, and tractors. The steering wheel is the part of the steering system that is manipulated by the driver; the rest of the steering system responds to such driver inputs. This can be through direct mechanical contact as in recirculating ball or rack and pinion steering gears, without or with the assistance of hydraulic power steering, HPS, or as in some modern production cars with the assistance of computer-controlled motors, known as Electric Power Steering.