Crossword-Solution: WHEEL
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| Wheel | n. | A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc. |
| Wheel | n. | Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel. |
| Wheel | n. | A spinning wheel. See under Spinning. |
| Wheel | n. | An instrument of torture formerly used. |
| Wheel | n. | A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering. |
| Wheel | n. | A potter's wheel. See under Potter. |
| Wheel | n. | A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. |
| Wheel | n. | The burden or refrain of a song. |
| Wheel | n. | A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede. |
| Wheel | n. | A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb. |
| Wheel | n. | A turn revolution; rotation; compass. |
| Wheel | v. t. | To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood. |
| Wheel | v. t. | To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle. |
| Wheel | v. i. | To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate. |
| Wheel | v. i. | To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right. |
| Wheel | v. i. | To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass. |
| Wheel | v. i. | To roll forward. |
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Sentences with WHEEL (5)
Peter had already lashed himself to the wheel; but he piped all hands and delivered a short address to them; said he hoped they would do their duty like gallant hearties, but that he knew they were the scum of Rio and the Gold Coast, and if they snapped at him he would tear them.
After a final swish, Emil snapped the gate and sprang into the cart, holding his scythe well out over the wheel.
Cainy Ball turned the handle of Gabriel’s grindstone, his head performing a melancholy see-saw up and down with each turn of the wheel.
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
The horse lay motionless (his neck was broken, poor brute!) and by the lightning flashes I saw the black bulk of the overturned dog cart and the silhouette of the wheel still spinning slowly.
Quotes with WHEEL (3)
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or useful items to be sold on a small scale, in a common marketplace where their friends meet and barter. I and many of my friends own more than one spinning wheel. We grow our food again. We make pickles and jams on private, individual scales, when many of our mothers forgot those skills if they ever knew them. We come to conventions, we create small communities of support and distri…
The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 107 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).