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| 1. s. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. | |
| 2. s. (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle. | |
| 3. s. (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered. | |
| 4. s. A spinning wheel. | |
| 5. s. A potter's wheel. | |
| 6. s. (heraldry) This device used as a heraldic charge, usually with six spokes. | |
| 7. s. A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment. | |
| 8. s. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel. | |
| 9. s. (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5. | |
| 10. s. (automotive) A wheelrim. | |
| 11. s. A round portion of cheese. | |
| 12. s. A Catherine wheel firework. | |
| 13. s. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb. | |
| 14. s. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass. | |
| 15. s. (computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive, or transitive) To roll along on wheels. | |
| Wheel that trolley over here, would you? | |
| 17. v. To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair. | |
| 18. v. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around. | |
| 19. v. To cause to change direction quickly, turn. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air. | |
| The vulture wheeled above us. | |
| 21. v. To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle. | |
