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A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.…

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

A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.

See catherine wheel.

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

A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.

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.

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

To encircle. Shak.

An amusement device consisting of a giant power-driven steel wheel, revolvable on its stationary axle, and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars around its rim; -- so called after G. W. G. Ferris, American engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.…

Having four wheels.

A vehicle having four wheels. [Colloq.]

A clutch fitted in the rear hub of a cycle, which engages the rear sprocket with the rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, opera…

A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.

Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.

To encircle. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.

A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.