wire wheel
Americannoun
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a wheellike brush having stiff wire bristles and used especially for finishing or cleaning metal.
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a wheel, as on a sports car, having wire spokes.
noun
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a wheel in which the rim is held to the hub by wire spokes, esp one used on a sports car Compare disc wheel
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a power-driven rotary wire brush for scaling or burnishing
Etymology
Origin of wire wheel
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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As he was on his knees cleaning the spokes of a wire wheel, he noticed something shiny buried in the wet gravel.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2020
“Even after all these years I have no idea what you’re talking about half the time,” Saul tells him, after a long parable about a squirrel on a wire wheel with broken feet.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2017
Every hair in it radiates like the spokes of a wire wheel.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a cage on the counter, behind which stood an old man, was a bushy-tailed squirrel, and he was going around and around in a sort of wire wheel.
From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home by Laura Lee Hope
The old woman saw that when the boy could not get the door open, the lady squirrel came out to the wire wheel.
From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Velma Swanston Howard
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