Main Entry: ²wheel

Function: verb

Date: 13th century

intransitive verb

1 : to turn on or as if on an axis : revolve
2 : to change direction as if revolving on a pivot <the battalion would have wheeled to the flank — Walter Bernstein> <her mind will wheel around to the other extreme — Liam O'Flaherty> <wheeled to face her opponent>
3 : to move or extend in a circle or curve <birds in wheeling flight> <valleys where young cotton wheeled slowly in fanlike rows — William Faulkner>
4 : to travel on or as if on wheels or in a wheeled vehicletransitive verb 1 : to cause to turn on or as if on an axis : rotate
2 : to convey or move on or as if on wheels or in a wheeled vehicle <wheeled the patient back to his room> <wheeled the car into the driveway> <wheel in the experts>
3 : to cause to change direction as if revolving on a pivot
4 : to make or perform in a circle or curve

— wheel and deal : to make deals or do business especially shrewdly or briskly