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late or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.

tones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels.

e Evangelists in one figure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.

a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel (Pottery), a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried by a vertical spindle; a potter's wheel.

of the ocean is called primitive; that of bays or channels derivative. Whewell. -- Tide wheel, a water wheel so constructed as to be moved by the ebb or flow of the tide.

A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover. [Written also tilburgh.]

large vessel it forms the connection between the fore end of the tiller and the steering wheel.

A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.

ach foot, in standing or walking, incline from the other foot. toe in, to align the front wheels so that they point slightly toward each other.

In France, a light-wheeled vehicle with square or rounded body and rear entrance.

to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

tate. Toothed whale (Zoöl.), any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete. -- Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel.

An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert.

ating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.

n from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.

A spinning wheel. [Prov. Eng.]

along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel. The bright track of his fiery car. Shak.

way otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.

The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like. Knight. Angle of traction (Mech.), the angle made with a given plane by the line of direction in which a tractive force acts. -- Traction engine, a locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields.