handwheel

American  

[hand-hweel, -weel] / ˈhændˌʰwil, -ˌwil /

noun

1. a wheel, as a valve wheel, turned by hand.

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Etymology

Origin of handwheel

First recorded in 1930–35; hand + wheel

Example Sentences

The activists also decorated the valve handwheel with sunflowers, and some attached themselves to the wheel with superglue and chains, the organisation said.

From Reuters • Apr. 27, 2022

It began where a spoked handwheel, rusted red, had been pressed into the dirt as if it were a sundial, a clock, stopped.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016

Gandhi himself devoted two hours each day to spinning his own yarn on a simple handwheel.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Every afternoon, Gandhi did an hour or two of spinning on his little handwheel, sometimes 400 yards at a sitting.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ram is raised or lowered by turning this handwheel in one direction or the other, and a gage shows how much pressure is being applied.

From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Jones, Franklin D.