The timekeeping device normally used in mechanical watches and small clocks, consisting of a wheel which oscillates due to a coiled spring.

Having a paddle wheel on each side; said of steam vessels.

An extra wheel held in reserve in a motor vehicle, to be used in an emergency.

(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.

A symbol of indigenous North American culture and religion. / A stone monument related to this symbol, constructed by laying stones in a particular pattern on the ground oriented to the four directions.