wheel

1. 1

   A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.

   • The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural
2. 2

   A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.; A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.informalwith-definite-article

   • He fell asleep at the wheel.
3. 3

   A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.; The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.

   • I hear the noise about thy keel; ⁠I hear the bell struck in the night: ⁠I see the cabin-window bright; I see the sailor at the wheel.
4. 4

   A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.; A spinning wheel.

5. 5

   A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.; A potter's wheel.

   • Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
   • Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar.
6. 6

   The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.

7. 7

   A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.slang

8. 8

   A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.; A superuser on certain systems.datedslang

9. 9

   The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.slang

10. 10

    The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.slang

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1. 1

   To roll along on wheels.transitive

   • Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
   • I had to wheel my bicycle up a steep hill.
2. 2

   To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.transitive

   • The patient was wheeled out of the ER.
3. 3

   To ride a bicycle or tricycle.datedintransitive

4. 4

   To make a circular movement.intransitive

   • My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.
5. 5

   To move smoothly and easily, as if on wheels.intransitive

   • I wheeled through the gathering, making all my appointed stops.
6. 6

   To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.intransitive

   • Your daughter, if you have not given her leave, I say again, hath made a gross revolt; Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger Of here and every where.
   • The dog screamed, and, wheeling in terror, galloped headlong in a new direction.
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   To cause to change direction quickly, turn.transitive

   • […] he did as Menelaus had said, and set off running as soon as he had given his armour to a comrade, Laodocus, who was wheeling his horses round, close beside him.
   • Then wheeling his black steed suddenly, he raced away before the dazed soldiers could get their wits together to send a shower of arrows after him.
8. 8

   To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.intransitive

   • The vulture wheeled above us.
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   To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.transitive

   • Now Heav’n in all her Glorie shon, and rowld Her motions, as the great first-Movers hand First wheeld thir course;
   • Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds:
10. 10

    To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.intransitive

    • The crowd wanted to track to be played again, so they shouted out "Wheel it".