Noun
The car's rear wheels started to spin on the icy road.
the wheels of a train
a suitcase with wheels on the bottom
a wheel of cheddar cheese Verb
Doctors wheeled the patient into the operating room.
He wheeled his motorcycle into the garage.
Our waiter wheeled out a small dessert cart.
She wheeled around in her chair when I entered the room.
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Noun
Finally, after a holding penalty on Ross erased Morris’ apparent 8-yard touchdown run, Kitchings dialed up a wheel route that isolated running back Xavier Brown on linebacker Elijah Herring.—David Teel, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025 The men informed the fire station crew that a stray cat recently gave birth to five kittens in their garage, and one of the kittens had become stuck in the wheel.—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
With the New York defense in disarray, the diminutive magician dinked the ball over the goalkeeper before wheeling away in celebration.—Ben Church, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025 Kwan, who had just reached on a bunt single, wheeled toward third.—Zack Meisel, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wheel
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English hweogol, hwēol; akin to Old Norse hvēl wheel, Greek kyklos circle, wheel, Skt cakra, Latin colere to cultivate, inhabit, Sanskrit carati he moves, wanders
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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