'Wheeler' definitions:

Definition of 'Wheeler'

From: WordNet
noun
Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976) [syn: Wheeler, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler]
noun
Someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels [syn: wheelwright, wheeler]
noun
The man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling
noun
A person who rides a bicycle [syn: cyclist, bicyclist, bicycler, wheeler]
noun
A draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle [syn: wheel horse, wheeler]

Definition of 'Wheeler'

From: GCIDE
  • Wheeler \Wheel"er\, n. [1913 Webster]
  • 1. One who wheels, or turns. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A maker of wheels; a wheelwright. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A wheel horse. See under Wheel. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Naut.) A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A worker on sewed muslin. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Zool.) The European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'wheeler'

From: GCIDE
  • Wheel \Wheel\ (hw[=e]l), n. [OE. wheel, hweol, AS. hwe['o]l, hweogul, hweowol; akin to D. wiel, Icel. hv[=e]l, Gr. ky`klos, Skr. cakra; cf. Icel. hj[=o]l, Dan. hiul, Sw. hjul. [root]218. Cf. Cycle, Cyclopedia.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • The gasping charioteer beneath the wheel Of his own car. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning. [1913 Webster] (b) An instrument of torture formerly used. [1913 Webster]
  • His examination is like that which is made by the rack and wheel. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: This mode of torture is said to have been first employed in Germany, in the fourteenth century. The criminal was laid on a cart wheel with his legs and arms extended, and his limbs in that posture were fractured with an iron bar. In France, where its use was restricted to the most atrocious crimes, the criminal was first laid on a frame of wood in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, with grooves cut transversely in it above and below the knees and elbows, and the executioner struck eight blows with an iron bar, so as to break the limbs in those places, sometimes finishing by two or three blows on the chest or stomach, which usually put an end to the life of the criminal, and were hence called coups-de-grace -- blows of mercy. The criminal was then unbound, and laid on a small wheel, with his face upward, and his arms and legs doubled under him, there to expire, if he had survived the previous treatment. --Brande. [1913 Webster] (c) (Naut.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering. [1913 Webster] (d) (Pottery) A potter's wheel. See under Potter. [1913 Webster]
  • Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. --Jer. xviii. 3. [1913 Webster]
  • Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar A touch can make, a touch can mar. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] (e) (Pyrotechny) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. [1913 Webster] (f) (Poetry) The burden or refrain of a song. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is supposed from the context in the few cases where the word is found." --Nares. [1913 Webster]
  • You must sing a-down a-down, An you call him a-down-a. O, how the wheel becomes it! --Shak. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A turn revolution; rotation; compass. [1913 Webster]
  • According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • [He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • A wheel within a wheel, or Wheels within wheels, a complication of circumstances, motives, etc.
  • Balance wheel. See in the Vocab.
  • Bevel wheel, Brake wheel, Cam wheel, Fifth wheel, Overshot wheel, Spinning wheel, etc. See under Bevel, Brake, etc.
  • Core wheel. (Mach.) (a) A mortise gear. (b) A wheel having a rim perforated to receive wooden cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear.
  • Measuring wheel, an odometer, or perambulator.
  • Wheel and axle (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle, and used for raising great weights, by applying the power to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called also axis in peritrochio, and perpetual lever, -- the principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the lever, while its action is continuous. See {Mechanical powers}, under Mechanical.
  • Wheel animal, or Wheel animalcule (Zool.), any one of numerous species of rotifers having a ciliated disk at the anterior end.
  • Wheel barometer. (Physics) See under Barometer.
  • Wheel boat, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water or upon inclined planes or railways.
  • Wheel bug (Zool.), a large North American hemipterous insect (Prionidus cristatus) which sucks the blood of other insects. So named from the curious shape of the prothorax.
  • Wheel carriage, a carriage moving on wheels.
  • Wheel chains, or Wheel ropes (Naut.), the chains or ropes connecting the wheel and rudder.
  • Wheel cutter, a machine for shaping the cogs of gear wheels; a gear cutter.
  • Wheel horse, one of the horses nearest to the wheels, as opposed to a leader, or forward horse; -- called also wheeler.
  • Wheel lathe, a lathe for turning railway-car wheels.
  • Wheel lock. (a) A letter lock. See under Letter. (b) A kind of gunlock in which sparks were struck from a flint, or piece of iron pyrites, by a revolving wheel. (c) A kind of brake a carriage.
  • Wheel ore (Min.), a variety of bournonite so named from the shape of its twin crystals. See Bournonite.
  • Wheel pit (Steam Engine), a pit in the ground, in which the lower part of the fly wheel runs.
  • Wheel plow, or Wheel plough, a plow having one or two wheels attached, to render it more steady, and to regulate the depth of the furrow.
  • Wheel press, a press by which railway-car wheels are forced on, or off, their axles.
  • Wheel race, the place in which a water wheel is set.
  • Wheel rope (Naut.), a tiller rope. See under Tiller.
  • Wheel stitch (Needlework), a stitch resembling a spider's web, worked into the material, and not over an open space. --Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework).
  • Wheel tree (Bot.), a tree (Aspidosperma excelsum) of Guiana, which has a trunk so curiously fluted that a transverse section resembles the hub and spokes of a coarsely made wheel. See Paddlewood.
  • Wheel urchin (Zool.), any sea urchin of the genus Rotula having a round, flat shell.
  • Wheel window (Arch.), a circular window having radiating mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel. Cf. {Rose window}, under Rose. [1913 Webster]

Wheeler, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wheeler, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000) :
317
Housing Units (2000) :
142
Land area (2000) :
0.819591 sq. miles (2.122732 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.819591 sq. miles (2.122732 sq. km)
FIPS code :
86575
Located within :
Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location :
45.043728 N, 91.906841 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
54772
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Wheeler, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wheeler, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000) :
119
Housing Units (2000) :
48
Land area (2000) :
0.576173 sq. miles (1.492282 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.576173 sq. miles (1.492282 sq. km)
FIPS code :
81074
Located within :
Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location :
39.043804 N, 88.317342 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
62479
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Wheeler, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wheeler, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000) :
391
Housing Units (2000) :
244
Land area (2000) :
0.716573 sq. miles (1.855916 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.716573 sq. miles (1.855916 sq. km)
FIPS code :
81300
Located within :
Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location :
45.687930 N, 123.882972 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Wheeler, TX -- U.S. city in Texas

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wheeler, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000) :
1378
Housing Units (2000) :
612
Land area (2000) :
1.530382 sq. miles (3.963672 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1.530382 sq. miles (3.963672 sq. km)
FIPS code :
78208
Located within :
Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location :
35.442424 N, 100.274068 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
79096
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Wheeler -- U.S. County in Nebraska

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wheeler -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000) :
886
Housing Units (2000) :
561
Land area (2000) :
575.165901 sq. miles (1489.672781 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.409061 sq. miles (1.059463 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
575.574962 sq. miles (1490.732244 sq. km)
Located within :
Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location :
41.909737 N, 98.514133 W

Wheeler -- U.S. County in Oregon

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wheeler -- U.S. County in Oregon
Population (2000) :
1547
Housing Units (2000) :
842
Land area (2000) :
1714.919502 sq. miles (4441.620931 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.545324 sq. miles (1.412382 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1715.464826 sq. miles (4443.033313 sq. km)
Located within :
Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location :
44.730809 N, 119.990635 W

Wheeler -- U.S. County in Texas

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wheeler -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000) :
5284
Housing Units (2000) :
2687
Land area (2000) :
914.264725 sq. miles (2367.934666 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
1.075817 sq. miles (2.786352 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
915.340542 sq. miles (2370.721018 sq. km)
Located within :
Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location :
35.362391 N, 100.280886 W

Wheeler -- U.S. County in Georgia

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wheeler -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000) :
6179
Housing Units (2000) :
2447
Land area (2000) :
297.716025 sq. miles (771.080931 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
2.423593 sq. miles (6.277076 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
300.139618 sq. miles (777.358007 sq. km)
Located within :
Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location :
32.127572 N, 82.742799 W

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