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Vielle :: Vielle (n.) An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.

Ladle :: Ladle (v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.

Wallower :: Wallower (n.) A lantern wheel; a trundle.

Wright :: Wright (n.) One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc..

Opisometer :: Opisometer (n.) An instrument with a revolving wheel for measuring a curved line, as on a map..

Cog :: Cog (n.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a 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..

Balance :: Balance (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary)..

Axle :: Axle (n.) The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel..

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

Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels..

Flume :: Flume (n.) A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity..

Trochometer :: Trochometer (n.) A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.

Equirotal :: Equirotal (a.) Having wheels of the same size or diameter; having equal rotation.

Water Wheel :: Water wheel () Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex wheel, turbine wheel, etc..

Wheel-shaped :: Wheel-shaped (a.) Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla..

Rouet :: Rouet (n.) A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.

Washer :: Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc..

Cyclometer :: Cyclometer (n.) A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle..

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