wheel
noun
[ wiːl ]
• a circular object that revolves on an axle and is fixed below a vehicle or other object to enable it to move easily over the ground.
• "a chair on wheels"
• a machine or structure having a wheel as its essential part.
• a car.
• "she's got wheels now"
• a thing resembling a wheel, in particular a cheese made in the form of a shallow disc.
• "a small wheel of Brie"
• an instance of wheeling; a turn or rotation.
• short for big wheel (sense 2).
• a set of short lines, typically five in number and rhyming, concluding the stanza of a poem.
wheel
verb
• push or pull (a vehicle with wheels).
• "Luke was wheeling a barrow"
• (of a bird or aircraft) fly in a wide circle or curve.
• "the birds wheeled and dived"
Origin:
Old English hwēol (noun), of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit cakra ‘wheel, circle’ and Greek kuklos ‘circle’.
on wheels
• by, or travelling by, car or bicycle.
• "a journey on wheels"
• used to emphasize one's distaste or dislike of the person or thing mentioned.
• "if I don't eat, I turn into a bitch on wheels"
