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Traction :: Traction (n.) The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like..

Tilbury :: Tilbury (n.) A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover..

Trigger :: Trigger (n.) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

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..

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

Bay :: Bay (n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc..

Smokejack :: Smokejack (n.) A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

Sprod :: Sprocket wheel () Same as Chain wheel.

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.

Bushel :: Bushel (n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.

Water Motor :: Water motor () A water wheel; especially, a small water wheel driven by water from a street main..

Soleplate :: Soleplate (n.) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

Skip :: Skip (n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories..

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

Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.

Run :: Run (a.) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round..

Staff :: Staff (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch..

Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint..

Frame :: Frame (n.) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

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