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Lignum-vitae :: Lignum-vitae (n.) A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum..

Rolling :: Rolling (a.) Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair..

Fickle :: Fickle (a.) Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel..

Penstock :: Penstock (n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses..

Box :: Box (v. t.) To furnish with boxes, as a wheel..

Trochite :: Trochite (n.) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

Whelp :: Whelp (n.) One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.

Engage :: Engage (v. t.) To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part..

Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.

Ribaudequin :: Ribaudequin (n.) An engine of war used in the Middle Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon..

Volante :: Volante (n.) A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba.

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

Mahovo :: Mahovo (n.) A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel..

Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.

Nave :: Nave (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob..

Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.

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

Aerohydrodynamic :: Aerohydrodynamic (a.) Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aerohydrodynamic wheel..

Noddy :: Noddy (n.) A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.

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

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