(rail transport) A workshop where wheels of locomotives and other railway vehicles are maintained.

Synonym of treadwheel

Alternative form of ponce wheel

(medicine) An instrument for neurological use, having a wheel with evenly spaced radiating sharp pins that is rolled across the skin to test the patient's sensation.

(theater) A rotating perforated disc that gives a flickery effect to light coming from behind it.

(rail transport) A flat spot on a railway wheel caused when a wheel, or both wheels on the same axle, in a moving train stop rotating.

plural of wheel flat

A cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel, can be used in the calculating engine of a class of mechanical calculators.

(literary) One of a set of supposed heavenly wheels that cause thunder when they roll.

A wheel composed of an abrasive compound and used for various grinding and abrasive machining operations. / (figuratively, by extension) Something that wears down or harms by attrition.