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1. n. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. | |
2. n. (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle. | |
3. n. (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered. | |
4. n. A spinning wheel. | |
5. n. A potter's wheel. | |
6. n. (heraldry) This device used as a heraldic charge, usually with six spokes. | |
7. n. A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment. | |
8. n. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel. | |
9. n. (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5. | |
10. n. (automotive) A wheelrim. | |
11. n. A round portion of cheese. | |
12. n. A Catherine wheel firework. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb. | |
14. n. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass. | |
15. n. (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. | |