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Wheeling   /wˈilɪŋ/  /hwˈilɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Wheeling  n.  
1.
The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle.
2.
The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling.
3.
Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.
4.
A turning, or circular movement.



verb
Wheel  v. t.  (past & past part. wheeled; pres. part. wheeling)  
1.
To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.
2.
To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle. "The beetle wheels her droning flight." "Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled Her motions, as the great first mover's hand First wheeled their course."



Wheel  v. i.  
1.
To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate. "The moon carried about the earth always shows the same face to us, not once wheeling upon her own center."
2.
To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right. "Being able to advance no further, they are in a fair way to wheel about to the other extreme."
3.
To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass. "Then wheeling down the steep of heaven he flies."
4.
To roll forward. "Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky, And wheel on the earth, devouring where it rolls."






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"Wheeling" Quotes from Famous Books



... the nozzle jerk in his hand, and then, abruptly, he was spinning off at a wild tangent from the asteroid, head over heels. For a moment it seemed that asteroid, orbit-ship and stars were all wheeling crazily around him. Then he realized what had happened. He fired the bumper again, and went spinning twice as fast. The third time he timed the blast, aiming the nozzle carefully, and the spinning ...
— Gold in the Sky • Alan Edward Nourse

... abruptly to the desk, leaned heavily on one arm, raising the letter in two vain efforts. A spasm of pain crossed his lips, which alone could not be controlled. He turned his head hastily, half offering, half dropping the letter, and wheeling, went to an armchair, ...
— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson

... inspected some of the horses closely, and presently picked out two of them; at a word from the chief two of the lads jumped on their backs and rode off on them at full speed, and then wheeling round returned to the spot from where ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty

... still wheeling, like a brazen disk, on the rim of the hills, when something occurred. A tall, lanky man, something over forty years of age, as thin as a hammer and dusty as the road itself—a man with a beard and a long, gray, drooping mustache, and with drooping ...
— Bruvver Jim's Baby • Philip Verrill Mighels

... twice, after which he stood in deep thought before making another dash for the door, which, like the others, came to an abrupt end as though he had run into some invisible obstacle. And, finally, wheeling sharply, he bustled off down the street ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse


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