36 Metaphors for wheel

The driving wheels are 7 ft. diameter, and the leading and trailing wheels 4 ft.

The wheel and the pulley are rare begetters of groans, as thou did'st foretell, Fool! '

This great Swedish botanist invented a Floral horologe, "whose wheels were the sun and earth and whose index-figures were flowers.

But surely the flashing airy wheel is the most poetical mode of locomotion yet invented, and one looks more like a fairy prince than ever in knickerbockers.

The remainder of the play, though amusing, is unfortunately not up to the level of the first act; else Wheels within Wheels would be a little classic of light comedy.

The cylinders of Gooch's engine are each 18 inches diameter, and 24 inches stroke; the driving wheels are 8 feet in diameter; the fire grate contains 21 square feet of area; and the heating surface of the fire box is 153 square feet.

"I should not wonder if that wheel would be a great deal better for a new tire, anyway.

He considers the new road to Islington as an encroachment on liberty, and often asserts that broad wheels will be the ruin of England.

Other wheels in London's credit machinery are the London offices of colonial and foreign banks, and the bill brokers or discount houses which deal in bills of exchange and constitute the discount market.

" At the beginning of human history, or tradition, then, we get the answer to our question: the law of woman-life is central, interior, and from the heart of things; the law of the man's life is circumferential, enfolding, shaping, bearing on and around, outwardly; wheel within wheel is the constitution of human power.

The poor body seemed to sigh, and the wheels became spokesmen!

You see, 'Wheels' has been a boy himself, and he hasn't forgotten it; and thatthat makes a difference somehow!"

In fact, I may say that the only safe wheel is the Arena.

The forecastle-head could barely be made out, and the winch-wheels and ventilators on deck were inchoate masses which took shape only when they were within reach.

In other words, a fly wheel is not a source of power, and in many cases it is only a means by which we accomplish rotative speed.

All the wheels are wrought iron; and, as yet, these are the only ones that have stood a steam fire engine.

The driving wheels are 6 feet 6-1/2 inches in diameter, and the diameter of crank pin is 3-1/2 inches.

The little front wheels are a stroke of mechanical ineptitude positively amounting to genius, and when they are replaced by a single wheel, and the whole affair resembles a huge tricycle, one instinctively looks round for a Dinosaur.

Much of what he said was lost in the din of the jumpers, but ever and anon could be heard ringing through the church the announcement: "De wheel ob time is a turnin' roun'!"

The fifth wheel to our coach was a strikingly ugly person, like a hippopotamus, whose plainness was not diminished by a pair of enormous goggles; this was the harmless necessary sweeper, that pariah among domestics, whose usefulness is undreamed of out of India.

You can steer by the tiller and compass: well, the wheel is quite the same, only just the opposite.

A smaller wheel would soon have been "hub-deep" and hopelessly stuck.

stroke; the driving-wheels are 8 ft. in diameter, and there are two pairs of leading wheels, and one of trailing, all of 4 ft. 6 in.

The wheel is the great enemy of Nature, whether it be the wheel of a machine or of a vehicle.

And for the sake o' goodness gracious, where's your wheel?" "'Turn, turn, my wheel,'" quoted Kent from the Fourth Reader.

36 Metaphors for  wheel