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A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round. Smart.

The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.

To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.

in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.

ruff of all their glory, have been taken down from the head of a conquering army to the wheel of the victor's chariot! L'Estrange.

To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.

Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan. "An axis or cylinder having a rundle about it." Bp. Wilkins.

One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Simmonds. -- Running fire, a constant fire of musketry or cannon. -- Running gear, the wheels and axles of a vehicle, and their attachments, in distinction from the body; all the working parts of a locomotive or other machine, in distinction from the framework. -- Running hand, a style of rapid writing in which the…

A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively. in a rut.

A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear (driving) wheel by a multiplying gear.

A kind of water wheel used in Egypt for raising water, from wells or pits, in buckets attached to its periphery or to an endless rope.

A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent slipping. -- Sand-box tree (Bot.), a tropical American tree (Hura crepitans). Its fruit is a depressed many-celled woody capsule which, when completely dry, bursts with a loud report and scatters the seeds. See I…

ized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness. Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, From the glad sound would not be absent long. Milton.

A sauntering, or a sauntering place. That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town. Young.

of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. -- Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.

Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy. Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser).

To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel.

Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.