driving wheel

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noun

Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.

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

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Origin of driving wheel

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby driving wheel

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How to use driving wheel in a sentence

Father José Julián was shot and wounded driving in a car through the sierra of Ajuchitán.
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The gentleman was listed as Orthodox and kosher, which is way too religious for my friend whose JSwipe account I was test-driving.
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Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
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Tim Russert and I are driving back to the Albany airport after taking our kids to the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
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And for those on the Palestinian right who still dream of driving the Jews into the sea, they too can forget it.
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Never again would he sit behind that wheel rejoicing in the insolence of speed.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
He deposited it on the vacant seat, clambered up behind the wheel, and started.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
People are busy ballooning or driving; shooting like stars along railroads; or migrating like swallows or wild-geese.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
On the state-coach went, down the steep, driving the mules madly before it.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
I think that there has been neglect and laxity in the matter of not driving out the Japanese.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various

British Dictionary definitions for driving wheel

driving wheel

noun

a wheel, esp a gear wheel, that causes other wheels to rotate

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

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