(circus arts) An apparatus made up of two large, usually steel rings joined together by a set of parallel steel bars. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see German, wheel.

(transitive) To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death.

A type of large windlass used in drilling.

The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into whose teeth the pallets play.

The action of taking the effort to devise a solution to a problem, unaware of the fact that someone else has already devised the same solution to the same problem.

present participle of reinvent the wheel.

simple past tense and past participle of wheelbarrow

plural of wheedling

plural of wheelback

Capable of being conveyed on wheels.