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  • And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Meliorism in massquantities, raffling receipts and sharing sweepstakes till navel, spokes and felloes hum like hymn.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The soil is soft white sand, very trying to the strength of the oxen, as the wheels sink into it over the felloes and drag heavily.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • The vehicle was a cart twenty feet long, covered over by a tilt, and resting on four large wheels without spokes or felloes, or iron tires — in a word, plain wooden discs.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.

    1 Kings 7. 1999

  • Elm, essential for the stock, oak, to provide the cleft heartwood for the spokes, with the grain unbroken, and springy, supple ash to make the curved felloes of the rim, they were all here to hand.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • A new elm stock, already fully provided with spokes, lay star-like on the grass, and the wheelwright, a thickset fellow of about forty-five years, bearded and muscular, was working away with an adze on a length of well-curved ash for the felloes, shaping with the grain of the wood.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • A new elm stock, already fully provided with spokes, lay star-like on the grass, and the wheelwright, a thickset fellow of about forty-five years, bearded and muscular, was working away with an adze on a length of well-curved ash for the felloes, shaping with the grain of the wood.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • When the iron-bound felloes of the gold-sheathed wheels jolted on rough ground, the bier only swayed gently; there were hidden springs above the axles.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

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  • /ˈfelōz/

    noun

    plural noun: felloes; plural noun: fellies

    the outer rim of a wheel, to which the spokes are fixed.

    September 10, 2017