Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance..

Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance)..

Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel.

Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..

Brush Wheel :: Brush wheel () A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference..

Brush Wheel :: Brush wheel () A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing..

Car Wheel :: Car wheel () A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.

Catharine Wheel :: Catharine wheel () See catherine wheel.

Catherine Wheel :: Catherine wheel () Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.

Catherine Wheel :: Catherine wheel () A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name.

Chain Wheel :: Chain wheel () A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel..

Chain Wheel :: Chain wheel () An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water..

Cogwheel :: Cogwheel (n.) A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

Count-wheel :: Count-wheel (n.) The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

Counterwheel :: Counterwheel (v. t.) To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.

Crown Wheel :: Crown wheel () A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

Enwheel :: Enwheel (v. t.) To encircle.

Feather-heeled :: Feather-heeled (a.) Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.

Four-wheeled :: Four-wheeled (a.) Having four wheels.

Four-wheeler :: Four-wheeler (n.) A vehicle having four wheels.

Fudge Wheel :: Fudge wheel () A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.

Handwheel :: Handwheel (n.) Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted..

Heel :: Heel (v. i.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it..

Heel :: Heel (n.) The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds..

Heel :: Heel (n.) The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe..

Heel :: Heel (n.) The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.

Heel :: Heel (n.) Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.

Heel :: Heel (n.) The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests.

Heel :: Heel (n.) The after end of a ship's keel.

Heel :: Heel (n.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc..

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