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A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.

Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.

A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.

Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.

A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs. Simmonds.

See Cast steel, under Steel.

See catherine wheel.

Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine- wheel window.

Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.

A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.

Same as Chromium steel, under Steel.

An Australian parrot (Calopsitta Novæ-Hollandiæ); -- so called from its note.

A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.

An osier basket, such as anglers use. Sir W. Scott.

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

Cast steel made by fusing in crucibles crude or scrap steel, wrought iron, and other ingredients and fluxes.

See Damask steel, under Damask.

A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.