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Mahwa Tree :: Mahwa tree () An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit..

Suffrance :: Suffrago (n.) The heel joint.

Heel :: Heel (v. t.) To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe..

Scape-wheel :: Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

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

Somerset :: Somerset (n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.

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

Wheeling :: Wheeling (n.) The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling.

Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys..

Handbarrow :: Handbarrow (n.) A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand..

Heel :: Heel (n.) A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen.

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..

Hob :: Hob (n.) The hub of a wheel. See Hub.

Driver :: Driver (n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive.

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

Orrery :: Orrery (n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system..

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

Milldam :: Milldam (n.) A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel..

Gharry :: Gharry (n.) Any wheeled cart or carriage.

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

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