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A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.

Shaped like a wheel.

Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road.

The tire of a wheel.

A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.

The European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]

Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.

One who wheels, or turns.

A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.

The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle.

One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist.

See Swarf.

A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.

A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.

Circular; suitable to rotation.

A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.

Same as Tungsten steel.

An eel. [Obs.] Holland.

On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence. F. Harrison.

Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. Abaft the beam. See under Beam.