(medicine) An instrument for neurological use, having a wheel with evenly spaced radiating sharp pins that is rolled across the skin to test the patient's sensation.

(theater) A rotating perforated disc that gives a flickery effect to light coming from behind it.

The wheel that drives a clock's pendulum, corresponding to the balance wheel in a watch.

An inclined wheel that drives a wallower in a mill.

plural of wheel shop

(rail transport) A workshop where wheels of locomotives and other railway vehicles are maintained.

simple past tense and past participle of wheel and deal

A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brush-like or soft attached to the circumference.

An extra wheel held in reserve in a motor vehicle, to be used in an emergency.

(circus arts) An apparatus made up of two large, usually steel rings joined together by a set of parallel steel bars. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see German, wheel.