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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

wheeling en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The motion of something that wheels.
    • Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles. 1910, Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies:
    • the wheelings of birds in the sky
  2. The act of moving or conveying on wheels.

Forms

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Deriveds

word-wheeling · four-wheeling · lottery wheeling · wheeling and dealing · wheeling machine · free-wheeling

wheeling en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of wheel
    form of wheel