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/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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Etymology of 'Wheeling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wheeling" Quotes from Famous Books

... children were in the play-ground, four boys occupied the boys' circular swing, while a stranger gentleman was looking on with the teacher. Conscious of being looked at, the little fellows were wheeling round with more than usual swiftness and dexterity, when a little creature of two or three years made a sudden dart forward into their very orbit, and in an instant must have been knocked down with great force. With a presence of mind ...

— The Infant System - For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, - from One to Seven years of Age • Samuel Wilderspin

... plate was buried below the mouth of French Creek; a third near the mouth of Wheeling Creek; and a fourth at the mouth of the Muskingum, where half a century later it was found protruding from the river bank by a party of boys while bathing. Yet another was unearthed at the mouth of the Great Kanawha by a freshet, and was likewise found by a boy while playing at the water's ...

— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... Wheeling the team he drove back the way he came, and, when a dusky object materialized out of the shadows beneath the birches, swung the horses right across the trail. The snow lay deep on either side of it just there, with a sharp ...

— Winston of the Prairie • Harold Bindloss

... him. Whatever his books had taught him, and whatever life had taught him, convinced him that God was a polite word for explaining one's failure. Yet, here was a woman whose mind he had to respect, using the term as a proved theorem. He looked at the stars, wheeling about with the monstrous pulleys of gravitation and attraction, and the certain laws of motion. A moment later he looked southward in the sky to that flaming, raging, splotched patch where the ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

... pool he noticed his companion examining him with a puzzled expression upon his face. Taking the ape-man by the shoulder he turned him around so that Tarzan's back was toward him and then, touching the end of Tarzan's spine with his forefinger, he curled his own tail up over his shoulder and, wheeling the ape-man about again, pointed first at Tarzan and then at his own caudal appendage, a look of puzzlement upon his face, the while he jabbered ...

— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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