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"We've been hunting all over the ship for you Sure, I wint down into the stowage to say if the yolklines and chains for the wheel were all clear, and to disconnect the shtame stayrin' gear," replied our friend Garry.

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  1. noun A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the center.
  2. noun Something resembling such a disk or ring in appearance or movement or having a wheel as its principal part or characteristic, as:
  3. noun The steering device on a vehicle.
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  • At the wheel will be the same driver who gets the England team to their games. —  News round-up
  • The first in the wheel is a very, very old fairy story. —  The Tapestry Room A Child's Romance
  • The man at the wheel was already alighting You'll do," he said. —  The Furnace of Gold
  • "We've been hunting all over the ship for you Sure, I wint down into the stowage to say if the yolklines and chains for the wheel were all clear, and to disconnect the shtame stayrin' gear," replied our friend Garry. —  The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
  • What I really want to get on to my wheel are the two luxury rovings, but I do need to get my hand back in first. —  Woolgathering
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engine ·  car ·  machine ·  shaft ·  gear ·  frame ·  box ·  seat ·  ring ·  blade ·  chain ·  ball

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wheel:   wheeling ·  wheels ·  wheeled
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English hwēol; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wheel, whele, whel, wheol, qwel, hwel, hueʒel, hweol, from Anglo-Saxon hweól, hwiól, contr. of hweowol, hweohl (= MD, weel, wiel, Dutch wiel = Low German weel, wel = lcel. hjól = Old Swedish hiugl, Swedish hjul = Danish hjul, a wheel); Teutonic apparently *hwehula, *hwehula, perhaps = Greek κύκλος, a wheel, circle: see cycle. The Icelandic hvel, orb, disk, can hardly be related.
  2. from Middle English *whelen, whielen, hweolen; from wheel, n.
 

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