Word Meanings - WHEELED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• WHEELED
  Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• WHEELWORK
  A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
• WHEELING
  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.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• WHEELBAND
  The tire of a wheel.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• PELTON WHEEL
  A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• RECARRIAGE
  Act of carrying back.
• ARTILLERY WHEEL
  A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.
• FUDGE WHEEL
  A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
• WHEEL
  A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. The burden or refrain of a song. Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is supposed from the context in the few cases where the
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.