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Synonyms for wheels


Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : hweel, weel
Phonetic Transcription : ʰwil, wil

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Définition of wheels

Origin :
  • "to turn like a wheel," early 13c., from wheel (n.); transitive sense attested from late 14c. Related: Wheeled; wheeling.
  • noun circle, revolution
  • verb turn, rotate
Example sentences :
  • This day we had completed the repair of the wheels of half the drays.
  • Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell
  • To run straight, the axes of all the wheels must obviously be parallel.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 » by Various
  • I am sick in my soul of narrow apartments and wheels and the rush and roar of the city.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • It was set a-going, not by wheels and weights like other clocks, but by the dropping of water.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • There was something awful, in the heavy rumbling of the wheels.
  • Extract from : « The White Old Maid (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • All this was carried upon a body provided with three wheels.
  • Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
  • Just as he dropped a branch down at her feet, she caught the sound of wheels.
  • Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • The wheels of our light cart, the host said, would do good rather than harm.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • Since the last rain no wheels had passed over the carriage-way.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • It was evident that he had a scheme of his own, worked by wheels within wheels.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
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