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Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road.

The tire of a wheel.

A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.

The European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]

Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.

One who wheels, or turns.

A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.

The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle.

One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist.

See Swarf.

A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.

A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.

Circular; suitable to rotation.

A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.

Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. Abaft the beam. See under Beam.

down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

ted tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

ition. Addendum circle (Mech.), the circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.

To prepare one's self. [Obs.] "Let us address to tend on Hector's heels." Shak.

Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aërohydrodynamic wheel.