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UK
/wˈiːl/
]
[ US /ˈhwiɫ, ˈwiɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈhwiɫ, ˈwiɫ/ ]
VERB
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move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
The President's convoy rolled past the crowds - wheel somebody or something
- ride a bicycle
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change directions as if revolving on a pivot
They wheeled their horses around and left
NOUN
- a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
- game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
- a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel
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forces that provide energy and direction
the wheels of government began to turn - a handwheel that is used for steering
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
How To Use wheel In A Sentence
- It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
- Assemble the table on a level surface, turn the top wheel upside down and place the seat wheel on top of it.
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- I ` d like to see it minus bodywork to see if it ` s got smaller wheels than the big old hoops normal for the period, cos i reckon even tho the bodywork is quite wide, full lock would find large dia. wheels causing a few problems. 1930 Art Deco Henderson
- OK, the steering is a little foggy, but the wheel unquestionably feels pleasant under the fingers. Times, Sunday Times
- Going into the large yard, he cut two oaken wedges, took a new wheel, and drove a wedge firmly into one end of its axle-box. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
- Just the other day, I was almost run over by a two-wheeling speed demon who felt that a four-way stop applied to everyone but him and his Schwinn. Keith Ecker: Bikers vs. Drivers vs. Pedestrians: The War Wages On
- It freewheeled down the hill and collided with the car in which Mrs Reilly and her daughter were travelling.
- Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
- A swingle-tree hung at the pole's end, and a second pair of reins was fast to the driver's seat, the four cheek-buckles lying crossed over the wheeler's backs. Ambrotox and Limping Dick
