n. A movement in drill in which a line changes front without destroying the alinement.n. The driving-wheel of a bicycle which has a releasing-device for freeing the pedals for coasting.n. A circular frame or solid disk turning on an axis.n. Any instrument, apparatus, machine, or other object shaped like a wheel, or the essential feature of which is a wheel: as, a mill-wheel, a spinning-wheel, or a potters' wheel.n. Nautical, a circular frame with handles projecting from the periphery, and an axle on which are wound the ropes or chains which connect with the rudder for steering a ship; a steering-wheel. Where a ship is steered by steam, in place of an ordinary wheel a small wheel is used, by turning which steam is admitted to the engines which turn the barrel on which the wheel-rope is wound.n. An instrument of torture. See to break on the wheel, under break.n. A firework of a circular shape which revolves on an axis, while burning by the reaction of the escaping gases. See catharine-wheel, 3, and pinwheel, 3.n. plural Figuratively, a carriage; a chariot.n. One of the attributes of Fortune, the emblem of mutability.n. A bicycle or a tricycle.n. In zoology:n. The characteristic organ of a wheel-animalcule; the trochal disk of a rotifer; a wheel-organ (which see). See cuts under Rotifer, Rotifera, and trochal.n. Some discoid or wheel-shaped calcareous or silicious concretion, as of an echinoderm or a sponge; a wheel-spicule.n. A circular course or motion; a whirling round; a revolution; rotation; also, a wheeling, turning, or bending.n. A motive power; in the plural, machinery; hence, a principle of life or motion.n. The burden of a song; a refrain: perhaps in allusion to its regular recurrence.n. A factory for grinding cutlery.n. A dollar.n. In embroidery and fancy needlework, an opening, not necessarily circular, filled with radiating bars or brides of thread.n. See ward, 11.n. Figuratively, something superfluous or useless.n. to subject one to a punishment out of all proportion to the gravity of the offense and the importance of the offender; hence, to employ great means or exertions for the attainment of trifling ends.n. A device for dividing a circle into any number of equal parts.n. (See also breast wheel, bull-wheel, catharine-wheel, cog-wheel, crown-wheel, dial-wheel, flange-wheel, measuring-wheel, pinwheel.)To cause to turn, or to move in a circle; make to rotate, revolve, or change direction.To convey on wheels or in a vehicle mounted on wheels.To make or perform in a circle; give a circular direction or form to.To provide with a wheel or wheels: as, to wheel a cart.To cause to move on or as on wheels; rotate; cause to turn: as, to wheel a rank of soldiers.To turn on a wheel.In tanning, to submit to the action of a pin-wheel. See pinwheel, 2.To shape by means of the wheel, as in pottery. See potters' wheel (under potter), and throw, transitive verb, 2.To break upon the wheel. See break.To turn on or as on an axis or about a center; rotate; revolve.To change direction of course, as if moving on a pivot or center.To move in a circular or spiral course.To take a circular course; return upon one's steps; hence, to wander; go out of the straight way.To travel smoothly; go at a round pace; trundle along; roll forward.To move on wheels; specifically, to ride a bicycle or tricycle; travel by means of a bicycle or tricycle.To change or reverse one's opinion or course of action: frequently with about.n. An old spelling of wheal.n. See wheal.n. An erroneous dialectal form of weel.