wheel

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or…

   A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.

2. 2

   The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.

3. 3

   A person with a great deal of power or influence

   A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.

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   1. 4

      The lowest straight in poker

      The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.

   2. 5

      The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker

      The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.

   3. 6

      A wheelrim.

   4. 7

      A round portion of cheese.

   5. 8

      A Catherine wheel firework.

   6. 9

      A rolling or revolving body

      A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.

      • Flashing thick flames , wheel within wheel undrawn
   7. 10

      A turn or revolution

      A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.

      • [He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.
   8. 11

      A recurring or cyclical course of events.

      • the wheel of life
      • According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves.
   9. 12

      The control of, or ability to steer, the course of events.

   10. 13

       A dollar.

   11. 14

       A crown coin.

   12. 15

       A bicycle or tricycle.

   13. 16

       A maneuver in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left…

       A maneuver in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.

   14. 17

       A type of algebra where division is always defined, and in particular division by zero is…

       A type of algebra where division is always defined, and in particular division by zero is meaningful.

       • The real numbers can be extended to a wheel, as can any commutative ring.
   15. 18

       The return to a peculiar rhythm at the end of each stanza.

   16. 19

       To roll along on wheels.

       • Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
       • I had to wheel my bicycle up a steep hill.
       • Why should we confine a body of men to making laws, when so many of them might be more usefully employed in wheeling barrows?
   17. 20

       To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.

       • The patient was wheeled out of the ER.
       • She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow Along a stretch of road; But she always ran away and left Her not-nice load,
       • Bob was wheeling the baby up and down, Mabel watching him, hawk-eyed, as though she suspected him of harboring intentions of tipping the cab over.
   18. 21

       To ride a bicycle or tricycle.

   19. 22

       To make a circular movement.

       • My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.
   20. 23

       To move smoothly and easily, as if on wheels.

       • I wheeled through the gathering, making all my appointed stops.
   21. 24

       To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.

       • Your daughter, if you have not given her leave, I say again, hath made a gross revolt; Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger Of here and every where.
       • The dog screamed, and, wheeling in terror, galloped headlong in a new direction.
       • The gulls in the river were flying in long, lazy curves, dipping down to the water, skimming it an instant, and then wheeling up again with easy, slanting wings.
   22. 25

       To cause to change direction quickly, turn.

       • […] he did as Menelaus had said, and set off running as soon as he had given his armour to a comrade, Laodocus, who was wheeling his horses round, close beside him.
       • Then wheeling his black steed suddenly, he raced away before the dazed soldiers could get their wits together to send a shower of arrows after him.
   23. 26

       To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.

       • The vulture wheeled above us.
       • […] Each aloft Upon his narrowed eminence bore globes Of wheeling suns, or stars, or semblances Of either, showering circular abyss Of radiance.
       • The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me / Since I first made my count. / I saw, before I had well finished, / All suddenly mount / And scatter wheeling in great broken rings / Upon their clamorous wings.
   24. 27

       To put into a rotatory motion

       To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.

       • Now Heav’n in all her Glorie shon, and rowld Her motions, as the great first-Movers hand First wheeld thir course;
       • Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds:
       • […] upward, in the mellow blush of day, The noisy bittern wheeled his spiral way.
   25. 28

       To reload a track

       To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.

       • The crowd wanted to track to be played again, so they shouted out "Wheel it".

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