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   wheel

   /wiːl/

   noun

   • 1. a circular object that revolves on an axle and is fixed below a vehicle or other object to enable it to move easily over the ground: "a chair on wheels" Similar dischoopringcircle
   • ▪ a circular object that revolves on an axle and forms part of a machine.
   • ▪ used in reference to the cycle of a specified condition or set of events: "the final release from the wheel of life"
   • ▪ a large wheel used as an instrument of punishment or torture, especially by binding someone to it and breaking their limbs: historical "a man sentenced to be broken on the wheel"
   • 2. a machine or structure having a wheel as its essential part.
   • ▪ the steering wheel of a vehicle or vessel: "his crew know when he wants to take the wheel"
   • ▪ a device with a revolving disc or drum used in various games of chance.
   • ▪ a system, or a part of a system, regarded as a relentlessly moving machine: "the wheels of justice"
   • 3. a car: informal "she's got wheels now"
   • 4. a thing resembling a wheel, in particular a cheese made in the form of a shallow disc: "a small wheel of Brie"
   • 5. an instance of wheeling; a turn or rotation. Similar turnrotationpivotswivelgyration
   • 6. short for big wheel informal North American
   • 7. a set of short lines, typically five in number and rhyming, concluding the stanza of a poem.

   verb

   • 1. push or pull (a vehicle with wheels): "Luke was wheeling a barrow" Similar pushtrundleroll
   • ▪ carry in or on a vehicle with wheels: "a young woman is wheeled into the operating theatre"
   • 2. (of a bird or aircraft) fly in a wide circle or curve: "the birds wheeled and dived" Similar turnturn roundgo roundrotaterevolvecircleorbit
   • ▪ turn round quickly so as to face another way: "Robert wheeled round to see the face of Mr Mafouz"
   • ▪ turn or seem to turn on an axis or pivot: "the stars wheeled through the sky"

   Word Origin Old Englishhwēol (noun), of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit cakra ‘wheel, circle’ and Greek kuklos ‘circle’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. wheelless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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