Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a wheel.

Etymologies

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wheel +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The 170-pound Honeywell Wind Turbine consists of a 6-foot-wide rooftop-mounted fan whose magnet-tipped blades revolve in a wheellike housing with copper coils.

    2010 International Builders' Show Product Preview: Honeywell Wind Turbine WT6500 2010

  • The 170-pound Honeywell Wind Turbine consists of a 6-foot-wide rooftop-mounted fan whose magnet-tipped blades revolve in a wheellike housing with copper coils.

    2010 International Builders' Show Product Preview: Honeywell Wind Turbine WT6500 2010

  • And far down in the mists of the turbulent atmosphere, a shape slowly emerged from the foreboding gloom — the long spindle of Ragnar Station, with three wheellike rings counter-rotating about its lower end.

    Battlestar Galactica Carver_Jeffrey 2006

  • It was decorated with a small, spoked wheellike object, which had been fastened to the staff about a third of the way down from the top.

    The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

  • She was surprised to see a long ivory staff, decorated with a circular, spoked, wheellike carving to which feathers and other objects were attached, laid beside each child.

    The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

  • They had reached it before sundown, and had begun to feed, stripping branches of their leaves, the enormous trunks reaching up like snakes and whirling the leaves Catherine-wheellike down enormous throats; the purring and grumbling of their cavernous bellies, the rubbing of rough shoulders against the bark, the stamping of feet crushing the undergrowth, resounded in echoes amongst the trees.

    The Pools of Silence 1907

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