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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A general term for one of many kinds of wheels or disks used in machinery as a convenient form of circular crank: as, the hand-wheel of a car-brake.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mach.) Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mechanics Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a setscrew.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated
  • noun a wheel worked by hand

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