Wheeling
[hwil]
Definition
(noun.) propelling something on wheels.
(noun.) a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river.
Typed by Dewey--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wheel
(n.) The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle.
(n.) The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling.
(n.) Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.
(n.) A turning, or circular movement.
Editor: Woodrow
Examples
- The noise of their motors filled all the high sky and looking up he saw their pursuit, minute and tiny, circling and wheeling high above them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And I assure you it wrenched the imagination to see tidy nursemaids wheeling perambulators and children playing diavolo on the very square where Bloody Sunday had gone into history. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Stop a minute, though, he said, wheeling round before we had gone many paces. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Logical inference, Miss Halcombe, continued the Count, wheeling round briskly, and addressing me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Well, said Mrs. Hackbutt, wheeling adroitly, all I can say is, that I think she ought to separate from him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The shutters of the house were closed, and Christian Cantle, who had been wheeling manure about the garden all day, had gone home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Donnie