wheel gun

[weel guhn, hweel]

noun

1. a revolver; six-shooter.

2. a handheld impact wrench used especially in auto racing to remove and replace the nuts that attach a car's wheel to its chassis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wheel gun¹

First recorded in 1865–70, wheel gun for def. 1; 1990–95, wheel gun for def. 2

Example Sentences

But a problem with the right-front wheel gun cost him two seconds, giving him a second slow pit stop in a row after the dramas of Monza.

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But after Piastri had a clean stop on lap 45 with eight to go, when Norris stopped a lap later, a fault with a wheel gun delayed him, and his stop was four seconds longer than his team-mate's.

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Piastri's stop was faultless at 1.9 seconds but Norris's front right wheel gun had a problem and his stop was 5.9, so Piastri was in the lead when Norris re-emerged on to the track.

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There were piles of Pirelli tires, too, and a pit stop challenge that involved a very loud wheel gun.

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Brazilian Felipe Massa finished a distant third for Mercedes-powered Williams after holding off Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, who had lost crucial seconds on his one pitstop when the wheel gun jammed on his right rear tire.

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