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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



... with a hollow rattle that deafened and appalled us; and, in the intervals of thunder, the hoarse bark of bears, and their affrighted growlings, were borne to our ears with savage distinctness. Mingled with these noises came the screams and cries of scores of sea-birds, wheeling and darting about. ...
— Left on Labrador - or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' • Charles Asbury Stephens

... for part of the night, at least. To this end I rolled myself in my blanket and lay down on the bench at the stern. The clouds still fled across the skies, harried by the wind; and the wind itself fluctuated, wheeling around to various points of the ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster

... "He ain' goin' back," he said. "'Ain' nobody kin make 'at dog go back. I 'ain' had him mo'n two weeks, but I don' b'lieve Pres'dent United States kin make 'at dog go back! I show you." And, wheeling suddenly, he made ferocious gestures, shouting. "G'on ...
— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington

... that do it?' cried Lady Eveleen, springing up. 'We will begin this moment. Come out on the lawn. Here, Charles,' wheeling him along, 'No, thank you, I like it,' as Guy was going to help her. 'There, Charles, be fiddler go on, tum-tum, tee! that'll do. Amy, Laura, be ladies. I'm the other gentleman,' and she stuck on her hat in military style, giving it a cock. She actually set them quadrilling in spite of adverse ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge

... flung him to the window and against the seat, he gazed out at the wheeling peaks, the snow-laden pines, and the mighty gorges, through which the icy river ran, green as grass in its quiet eddies. On every side were wild hillsides meshed with fallen trees, and each new vista contained its distant peak. It was the ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland


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