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Gripe :: Gripe (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.

Chariot :: Chariot (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat..

Hum :: Hum (n.) A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz..

Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit..

Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) A round body; a little wheel.

Escapement :: Escapement (n.) The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration..

Hub :: Hub (n.) A block for scotching a wheel.

Click :: Click (n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel..

Hansom Cab :: Hansom cab () A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top..

Machine :: Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

Berlin :: Berlin (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin..

Gather :: Gather (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

Water Wheel :: Water wheel () The paddle wheel of a steam vessel.

Wheeled :: Wheeled (a.) Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four-wheeled carriage..

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel..

Gyrostat :: Gyrostat (n.) A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies..

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel..

Wheelbird :: Wheelbird (n.) The European goatsucker.

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