Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The large wheel which is keyed upon the same shaft as the lifting-barrel of a crane, and by which the barrel is directly revolved. It is the last one in the train of gearing.
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This chain was passed once round a grooved barrel-wheel under the centre of the engine: so that, when the wheel turned, the locomotive, as it were, dragged itself along the railway.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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