Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The iron band that encircles a wooden wheel. See
tire .
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Examples
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Following this guide will ensure that the new wheels fit the tires, and the new wheel-tire combination fits the truck.
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For that to work you'll need a smaller-diameter wheel so the new wheel-tire combination will have the same circumference as the old one.
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They are covered with mud from the roof to the wheel-tire, and have never been cleaned since they were first built.
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A suspended wheel-tire was struck for a bell, to call them to assemble.
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An axle-tree, cracked lengthwise, can easily be mended with raw hide; even a broken wheel-tire may be replaced with rhinoceros or other thick hide; if the country to be travelled over be dry.
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866
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Page view page image: soothed by circling there awhile, issued forth serenely; on, to less broken ground, and by a little ring, where, truly, fairies must have danced, or else some wheel-tire been heated — for all was bare; still on, and up, and out into
The piazza tales 1856
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They are covered with mud from the roof to the wheel-tire, and have never been cleaned since they were first built.
American Notes 1842
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They are covered with mud from the roof to the wheel-tire, and have never been cleaned since they were first built.
American Notes Charles Dickens 1841
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This means wheels are precisely aligned with the tires, and wheel-tire assemblies are centered on precision-machined hub pilots.
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In keeping with the release last year of the K10 wheel-tire system, all the new SSC wheels come as part of a packaged wheel-tire approach.
Boulder Report 2010
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