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Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

cts are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

A graduated wheel for measuring tires; a tire circle.

The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round. J. Gregory.

A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver.

State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.

stance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the p…

A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.

A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.

A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.

subject of compensation. Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. -- Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.…

urmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel. O lose of sight, of three I most complain! Milton.

r coneshaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.

gs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it. [R.] Contrate wheel. See Crown wheel.

A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. Knight.

ason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. Shak. To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] Dryden.

A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.