wheel
/ˈwiːl/ noun A1- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle. · He fell asleep at the wheel.
- The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
- A spinning wheel.
- A potter's wheel.
- The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
- A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
- A superuser on certain systems.
Plural wheels
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Mind you keep your skirt clear of the wheel, Anne, and put your warm jacket on.”
Wait my coming, O most infamous Bandar-log!” He panted up the terrace only to disappear to the head in a wave of monkeys, but he threw himself squarely on his haunches, and, spreading out his forepaws, hugged as many as he could hold, and then began to hit with a regular bat-bat-bat, like the flipping strokes of a paddle wheel.
He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk.
I satisfied myself that it was a cab and not a private carriage by the narrow gauge of the wheels.
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