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One of the guarde over the wheels, as of a carriage, locomotive, etc. Weale.

ces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy. Prescott.

The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.

A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work.

The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel. Bath sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges, especially Spongia equina. -- Cup sponge, a toilet sponge growing in a cup-shaped form. -- Glass sponge. See Glass-sponge, in the Vocabulary. -- Glove sponge, a variety of commercia…

motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. R. S. Poole.

wise moved. -- Spring hook (Locomotive Engines), one of the hooks which fix the driving-wheel spring to the frame. -- Spring latch, a latch that fastens with a spring.

An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood. And on her feet a pair of spurs large. Chaucer.

The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.

To kick or toss up the heels. The miller spurned at a stone. Chaucer. The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. Gay.

To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.

tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak. Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch Addison. Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the "squeaking pigs" of Homer. Pope.

An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

rrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.

A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.

e of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also loggerhead, race horse, and side wheel duck.

from Steer, v. Steering wheel (Naut.), the wheel by means of which the rudder of a vessel is turned and the vessel is steered.