The Collaborative Dictionary

Wheeling \Wheel"ing\, n. [1913 Webster]

The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle. [1913 Webster]

The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling. [1913 Webster]

Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling. [1913 Webster]

A turning, or circular movement. [1913 Webster]

Wheel \Wheel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wheeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wheeling.] [1913 Webster]

To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood. [1913 Webster]

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." --Gray. [1913 Webster] Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled Her motions, as the great first mover's hand First wheeled their course. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

Wheeling

1 a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river

2 propelling something on wheels [syn: rolling]

see Wheeling

English

Verb

wheeling

present participle of wheel

Wheeling can refer to:

Places in the United States of America

Wheeling, Illinois
Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling, Missouri
Wheeling Creek, two bodies of water, in Ohio and West Virginia
Wheeling Island in the Ohio River

Other uses

Wheeling (see breaking wheel), a form of torture
Fort Wheeling or simply Wheeling, a comics series by Hugo Pratt
"Wheeling", American slang term for off-roading, a type of motorsport
Wheeling (electric power transmission)
The Wheeling, common short name for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
Wheeling, a technique for the cold forming of sheet metal (see sheet metal forming) into complex shapes using the English Wheel

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