Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wheeling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wheeling \Wheel"ing\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wheel \Wheel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wheeled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{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.'' --Gray.
Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled Her
motions, as the great first mover's hand First
wheeled their course. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wheeling
adj : turning about an axis [syn: {revolving}, {rotating}, {turning}]
n 1: a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the
Ohio river [syn: {Wheeling}]
2: propelling something on wheels [syn: {rolling}]
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