noun. A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the center.

noun. Something resembling such a disk or ring in appearance or movement or having a wheel as its principal part or characteristic, as.

noun. The steering device on a vehicle.

noun. A potter's wheel.

noun. A water wheel.

noun. A spinning wheel.

noun. A device used in roulette and other games of chance.

noun. A firework that rotates while burning.

noun. A bicycle.

noun. An instrument to which a victim was bound for torture during the Middle Ages.

noun. Forces that provide energy, movement, or direction.

noun. The act or process of turning; revolution or rotation.

noun. A military maneuver executed in order to change the direction of movement of a formation, as of troops or ships, in which the formation is maintained while the outer unit describes an arc and the inner or center unit remains stationary as a pivot.

noun. A motor vehicle or access thereto.

noun. A person with a great deal of power or influence.

intransitive verb. To roll, move, or transport on wheels or a wheel.

intransitive verb. To cause to turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.

intransitive verb. To provide with wheels or a wheel.

intransitive verb. To turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.

intransitive verb. To roll or move on or as if on wheels or a wheel.

intransitive verb. To fly in a curving or circular course.

intransitive verb. To turn or whirl around in place; pivot.

intransitive verb. To reverse one's opinion or practice.

idiom. (at/behind) Operating the steering mechanism of a vehicle; driving.

idiom. (at/behind) Directing or controlling; in charge.

idiom. (wheel and deal) To engage in the advancement of one's own interests, especially in a canny, aggressive, or unscrupulous way.

noun. An erroneous dialectal form of weel.

To cause to turn, or to move in a circle; make to rotate, revolve, or change direction.

To convey on wheels or in a vehicle mounted on wheels.

To make or perform in a circle; give a circular direction or form to.

To provide with a wheel or wheels: as, to wheel a cart.

To cause to move on or as on wheels; rotate; cause to turn: as, to wheel a rank of soldiers.

To turn on a wheel.

In tanning, to submit to the action of a pin-wheel. See pinwheel, 2.

To shape by means of the wheel, as in pottery. See potters' wheel (under potter), and throw, transitive verb, 2.

To break upon the wheel. See break.

To turn on or as on an axis or about a center; rotate; revolve.

To change direction of course, as if moving on a pivot or center.

To move in a circular or spiral course.

To take a circular course; return upon one's steps; hence, to wander; go out of the straight way.

To travel smoothly; go at a round pace; trundle along; roll forward.

To move on wheels; specifically, to ride a bicycle or tricycle; travel by means of a bicycle or tricycle.

To change or reverse one's opinion or course of action: frequently with about.

noun. A movement in drill in which a line changes front without destroying the alinement.

noun. The driving-wheel of a bicycle which has a releasing-device for freeing the pedals for coasting.

noun. A circular frame or solid disk turning on an axis.

noun. Any instrument, apparatus, machine, or other object shaped like a wheel, or the essential feature of which is a wheel: as, a mill-wheel, a spinning-wheel, or a potters' wheel.

noun. Nautical, a circular frame with handles projecting from the periphery, and an axle on which are wound the ropes or chains which connect with the rudder for steering a ship; a steering-wheel. Where a ship is steered by steam, in place of an ordinary wheel a small wheel is used, by turning which steam is admitted to the engines which turn the barrel on which the wheel-rope is wound.

noun. An instrument of torture. See to break on the wheel, under break.

noun. A firework of a circular shape which revolves on an axis, while burning by the reaction of the escaping gases. See catharine-wheel, 3, and pinwheel, 3.

"Often a wheel, sometimes a cart-wheel or even a spinning-wheel, formed part of the mechanism; in Aberdeenshire it was called “the muckle wheel”; in the island of Mull the wheel was turned from east to west over nine spindles of oak-wood."

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wheel animalcule  wheel plough  wheel ropes  wheels within wheels  

Wheeling  wheeled  

force  game equipment  handwheel  helm  instrument of torture  

Biel  Brasil  Camille  Cecile  Cele  

Seat  animals  arm  ball  bar  

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