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

Buff :: Buff (a.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc..

Chariot :: Chariot (n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc..

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..

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..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A penstock for a water wheel.

Governor :: Governor (n.) A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable..

Orb :: Orb (n.) A revolving circular body; a wheel.

Sleeve :: Sleeve (n.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel..

Limber :: Limber (n.) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit..

Amphidisc :: Amphidisc (n.) A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.

Race :: Race (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race..

Cuttoo Plate :: Cuttoo plate () A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.

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

Corf :: Corf (n.) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines..

Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another..

Rundle :: Rundle (n.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Verticillated :: Verticillated (a.) Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell..

Spurned :: Spurling-line (n.) The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.

Whirl :: Whirl (v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel..

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