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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



... September 1, 1782, that a scout employed to watch the movements of the Red Indians rushed into the West Virginian village of Wheeling, shouting the dreaded warning of the savages' approach. Instantly the inhabitants took refuge in the fort, and prepared to offer a determined resistance. The fort had no regular garrison, it being the ...
— Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines • Henry Charles Moore
... those partial migrations of tree squirrels that sometimes take place in our western forests, many thousands of them were destroyed in attempting to cross the Ohio; and at a certain place, not far from Wheeling, a prodigious number of their dead bodies were floated to the shore by an eddy. Here the vultures assembled in great force, and had regailed themselves for some time, when a bald eagle made his appearance, and took sole possession of the premises, keeping the whole vultures at their ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 494. • Various
... sowed the fields and truck-patch,—sold the crops down in Wheeling; every year he got some little, hardly earned snugness for the house (he and Bone had been born in it, their grandfathers had lived there together). Bone was his slave; of course, they thought, how should ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... us into the midst of the Atlantic solitudes—out of smoke-colored sounding into fathomless deep blue; no ships visible anywhere over the wide ocean; no company but Mother Carey's chickens wheeling, darting, skimming the waves in the sun. There were some seafaring men among the passengers, and conversation drifted into matter concerning ships and sailors. One said that "true as the needle to the pole" ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... And wheeling round his horse he took off his hat with a sweeping bow. Then he set out at a gallop and did not draw rein until he reached the "Red Cow" at Hammersmith. Apparently he was well-known, for in response to his shout ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce


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