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Capable of being dismounted; -- said of a form of rim, for an automobile wheel, which can be removed with its tire from the wheel.

A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig. ("The term and vehicle common about 1825." Latham.)

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.

A pair of toothed wheels which work together. [R.]

A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train (45 to 50 feet), laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.

; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.

us olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect (Prionotus cristatus); the wheel bug. [U.S.] -- Devil's darning-needle. (Zoöl.) See under Darn, v. t. -- Devil's fingers, Devil's hand (Zoöl.), the common British starfish (Asterias rubens); -- also applied to a sponge with stout branches. [Prov. Eng., Iris…

difference of their effect upon the needle. -- Differential gearing, a train of toothed wheels, usually an epicyclic train, so arranged as to constitute a differential motion. -- Differential motion, a mechanism in which a simple differential combination produces such a change of motion or force as would, with ordina…

ger resistance; -- used of warfare. Also figuratively, esp. in the phrase to dig in one's heels.

A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

ate of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

ve from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.

drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson.

nomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.

A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.

Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction. The Hertfordshire wheel plow . . . is of the easiest draught. Mortimer.

To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.

all drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips. The dark round of the dripping wheel. Tennyson.

The driving wheel of a locomotive.