A tackle-block over which a hoisting rope is run.

A wheel forming part of a bevel gear.

Synonym of countwheel

plural of wheel-barrow

plural of wheel-race

The part of a mill race in which the water wheel is fixed.

A culinary tool for cutting or shaping pie or pastry dough into ornate figures in preparation for cooking (see jagging); it usually is a handle fitted with one or more blades in the form of freely rotating wheels that have zigzag or otherwise sculpted edges. Rustproof materials such as bone or silver are preferred.

A bevel wheel having its face inclined 45° to its axis.

Synonym of asleep at the switch

The action of taking the effort to devise a solution to a problem, unaware of the fact that someone else has already devised the same solution to the same problem.