driving wheel


noun
  1. Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.

  2. Also called driver. Railroads. one of the wheels of a locomotive that transmits the power of an engine or motor into tractive effort.

Origin of driving wheel

1
First recorded in 1830–40

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How to use driving wheel in a sentence

  • In the machinery of domestic life there is no more need for the driving wheel than for the brakes.

    The Wedding Ring | T. De Witt Talmage

British Dictionary definitions for driving wheel

driving wheel

noun
  1. a wheel, esp a gear wheel, that causes other wheels to rotate

  2. any wheel of a vehicle that transforms torque into a tractive force

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