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Synonyms for wheels
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : hweel, weel |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʰwil, wil |
Top 10 synonyms for wheels Other synonyms for the word wheels
Définition of wheels
Origin :- "to turn like a wheel," early 13c., from wheel (n.); transitive sense attested from late 14c. Related: Wheeled; wheeling.
- noun circle, revolution
- verb turn, rotate
- This day we had completed the repair of the wheels of half the drays.
- Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell
- To run straight, the axes of all the wheels must obviously be parallel.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 » by Various
- I am sick in my soul of narrow apartments and wheels and the rush and roar of the city.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- It was set a-going, not by wheels and weights like other clocks, but by the dropping of water.
- Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- There was something awful, in the heavy rumbling of the wheels.
- Extract from : « The White Old Maid (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- All this was carried upon a body provided with three wheels.
- Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
- Just as he dropped a branch down at her feet, she caught the sound of wheels.
- Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
- The wheels of our light cart, the host said, would do good rather than harm.
- Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- Since the last rain no wheels had passed over the carriage-way.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- It was evident that he had a scheme of his own, worked by wheels within wheels.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
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