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Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles..

Rail :: Rail (n.) A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc..

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

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A potter's wheel.

Birr :: Birr (v. i.) To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion..

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

Wheeler :: Wheeler (n.) A wheel horse. See under Wheel.

Spur :: Spur (n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood..

Wheel :: Wheel (v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood..

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

Gyroscope :: Gyroscope (n.) A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion..

Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet..

Perambulator :: Perambulator (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer..

Rundle :: Rundle (n.) Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan..

Treadmill :: Treadmill (n.) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt..

Tourn :: Tourn (n.) A spinning wheel.

Trundle-bed :: Trundle-bed (n.) A low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also, sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels..

Tread :: Tread (n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.

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

Face :: Face (n.) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line..

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