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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 3. A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede. 4. A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form a disk; an orb. --Milton. 5. A turn revolution; rotation; compass. According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others come at length to be trampled upon themselves. --South. [He] throws his steep flight in many an a["e]ry wheel. --Milton. {A wheel within a wheel}, or {Wheels within wheels}, a complication of circumstances, motives, etc {Balance wheel}. See in the Vocab. {Bevel wheel}, {Brake wheel}, {Cam wheel}, {Fifth wheel}, {Overshot wheel}, {Spinning wheel}, etc See under {Bevel}, {Brake}, etc {Core wheel}. (Mach.) a A mortise gear. b A wheel having a rim perforated to receive wooden cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear. {Measuring wheel}, an odometer, or perambulator. {Wheel and axle} (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle, and used for raising great weights, by applying the power to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called also {axis in peritrochio}, and {perpetual lever}, -- the principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the lever, while its action is continuous. See {Mechanical powers}, under {Mechanical}. {Wheel animal}, or {Wheel animalcule} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of rotifers having a ciliated disk at the anterior end {Wheel barometer}. (Physics) See under {Barometer}. {Wheel boat}, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water or upon inclined planes or railways. {Wheel bug} (Zo["o]l.), a large North American hemipterous insect ({Prionidus cristatus}) which sucks the blood of other insects. So named from the curious shape of the prothorax. {Wheel carriage}, a carriage moving on wheels. {Wheel chains}, or {Wheel ropes} (Naut.), the chains or ropes connecting the wheel and rudder. {Wheel cutter}, a machine for shaping the cogs of gear wheels; a gear cutter. {Wheel horse}, one of the horses nearest to the wheels, as opposed to a leader, or forward horse; -- called also {wheeler}. {Wheel lathe}, a lathe for turning railway-car wheels. {Wheel lock}. a A letter lock. See under {Letter}. b A kind of gunlock in which sparks were struck from a flint, or piece of iron pyrites, by a revolving wheel. c A kind of brake a carriage. {Wheel ore} (Min.), a variety of bournonite so named from the shape of its twin crystals. See {Bournonite}. {Wheel pit} (Steam Engine), a pit in the ground, in which the lower part of the fly wheel runs. {Wheel plow}, or {Wheel plough}, a plow having one or two wheels attached, to render it more steady, and to regulate the depth of the furrow. {Wheel press}, a press by which railway-car wheels are forced on or off their axles. {Wheel race}, the place in which a water wheel is set {Wheel rope} (Naut.), a tiller rope. See under {Tiller}. {Wheel stitch} (Needlework), a stitch resembling a spider's web, worked into the material, and not over an open space. --Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework). {Wheel tree} (Bot.), a tree ({Aspidosperma excelsum}) of Guiana, which has a trunk so curiously fluted that a transverse section resembles the hub and spokes of a coarsely made wheel. See {Paddlewood}. {Wheel urchin} (Zo["o]l.), any sea urchin of the genus {Rotula} having a round, flat shell. {Wheel window} (Arch.), a circular window having radiating mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel. Cf {Rose window}, under {Rose}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wheeler \Wheel"er\, n. 1. One who wheels, or turns. 2. A maker of wheels; a wheelwright. [Obs.] 3. A wheel horse. See under {Wheel}. 4. (Naut.) A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler. 5. A worker on sewed muslin. [Eng.] 6. (Zo["o]l.) The European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wheeler n : a horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle [syn: {wheel horse}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Wheeler, IL (village, FIPS 81074) Location: 39.04281 N, 88.31863 W Population (1990): 161 (62 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62479 Wheeler, KS Zip code(s): 67756 Wheeler, MI Zip code(s): 48662 Wheeler, OR (city, FIPS 81300) Location: 45.68697 N, 123.88407 W Population (1990): 335 (190 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Wheeler, TX (town, FIPS 78208) Location: 35.44026 N, 100.27498 W Population (1990): 1393 (633 housing units) Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79096 Wheeler, WI (village, FIPS 86575) Location: 45.04367 N, 91.90546 W Population (1990): 348 (138 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54772
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