wheelwork
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of wheelwork
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A small carriage geared to the wheelwork traversed its length, carrying electromagnetic signals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
In the first place, the work of the Constituent Assembly was not principally to perpetuate this wheelwork of useless royalty, placed out of complaisance to the people's eyes, in machinery which did not regulate it.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
He regarded each new person as a complicated piece of wheelwork, which it was the wise man's business to understand and not be angry with.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
Beside the paternal face, before which, with most children, the whole wheelwork of a free behavior grates and sticks, a third cause made him disconcerted and witty,–namely, that he was after something.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
He is part of the rush in our social wheelwork, and yet he makes it move more slowly.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
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