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An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy- gurdy.

ssemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city. Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top.

A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man. [R.]

A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba.

hematical speculations as the typical form and structure of the chemical atom. -- Vortex wheel, a kind of turbine.

A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

frican proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.

A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay. Jeffrey. Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore. Longfellow.

Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.

sect; -- called also walking straw. See Illust. of Stick insect, under Stick. -- Walking wheel (Mach.), a prime mover consisting of a wheel driven by the weight of men or animals walking either in it or on it; a treadwheel.

A lantern wheel; a trundle.

a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel (Horol.), a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.

t for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc.

A water wheel; especially, a small water wheel driven by water from a street main.

truction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.

A friction gear wheel with wedge-shaped circumferential grooves. -- Wedge gearing.

Passing to the west. Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. Milton.

One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.

produced by rapid or whirling motion; as, the whir of a partridge; the whir of a spinning wheel.