driving wheel
Americannoun
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Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
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Also called driver. Railroads. one of the wheels of a locomotive that transmits the power of an engine or motor into tractive effort.
noun
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a wheel, esp a gear wheel, that causes other wheels to rotate
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any wheel of a vehicle that transforms torque into a tractive force
Etymology
Origin of driving wheel
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Anyone who knows me will tell you that I’m so clumsy, I should be nowhere near the driving wheel of a vehicle or the on-button of a power tool.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
As this happens, throw your weight to the high side of the machine to keep the driving wheel in good contact with the bottom of the bog.
From Time Magazine Archive
If there are 16 teeth, then on the surface of the driving wheel there will be 96 teeth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
Eastwick and Harrison, it is true, favored an eccentric drive for feed pumps, but they mounted the eccentric on the crankpin of the rear driving wheel and thus produced in effect a half-stroke pump.
From The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 by White, John H.
The movable hour circle and driving wheel of the Crossley reflector has two sets of graduations.
From Photographs of Nebul? and Clusters Made with the Crossley Reflector by Keeler, James Edward
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