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n. (wagon wheel English)
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Wagon Wheels are a snack food sold in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Malta, Russia, Dominican Republic, The Middle East and the United Kingdom. They consist of two biscuits with marshmallow sandwich filling, covered in a chocolate flavoured coating.
Wagon Wheels were created by Garry Weston, son of W. Garfield Weston. Garry Weston worked for his father's business in Australia before taking over his family's business in England. The biscuits were launched at the 1948 Olympia Food Fair. The name (originally "Weston Wagon Wheels") relates to the shape of the biscuits and capitalized on the Wild West, which was popular in mass media at the time.
Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original and substituting a new cast headed by Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick to replace the earlier film's Gary Cooper and Lili Damita. The western movie was directed by Charles Barton from the Zane Grey novel Fighting Caravans.
__NOTOC__ Wagon Wheels is a Western song written by Billy Hill and Peter DeRose in the early 1930s. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Usage examples of "wagon wheels".
Sometimes the mud was sticky, and on those stretches the wagon wheels accumulated it and got begummed to such thickness and heaviness that they had to be stopped and scraped clean.
Sullen prisoners smashed their own rifles against the iron tyres of the wagon wheels under the muzzles of the Descotter guns.
Cirlin stepped out from the smithy while Justen and Gunnar were still easing the blocks under the wagon wheels.
For the past few days, the rumbling of wagon wheels and the clopping of hooves had filled every lull in the noisier work of the smithy.
But the river ran shallow at the edges, and the wagon wheels would only run a few hands deep.
He heard the clamor of the approach, hooves, talk, a smattering of song, and the rumble of wagon wheels, all wafting over him as the summer breeze did, felt and forgotten and beyond him, now, who was dead.
With the unearthy red glow of the sunrise at her back, she urged the mule forward, and after fifty paces, when she glanced back, the faint double track of wagon wheels was no longer discernible.
Snow falls came crashing down from the high places, dislodged by the reverberations of thousands of marching feet, hooves, rolling wagon wheels.
At the grinding of ironbound wagon wheels, Cerryl could feel the white guards move closer.
Angle iron, a set of pulleys from an old flat leather belt drive that looked like undersized steel wagon wheels, with a broad flat surface where the rim should be.
An industrial bit of humor at the expense of the many half buried wagon wheels.
It might have been a cow path widened by wagon wheels, but picks and shovels had shaped it in places, and here a landslide had been cleared away.