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handwheel

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

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of handwheel

First recorded in 1930–35; hand + wheel

Example Sentences

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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

Now screw down the upper jaw of the press as tightly as you can with the handwheel, so as to put as much pressure on the plates as possible.

From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Witte, Otto A.

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