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  • verb Present participle of wheel.

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Examples

  • When I finally got there, a small clutch of ladies were engaged in wheeling a drinks trolley in that seemed laden with bottles and little wicker baskets of snacks.

    The Book Club « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Again wheeling, this time at no more than two hundred yards, the whale charged back, not completing her semi-circle sufficiently, so that she bore down upon the schooner's bow from starboard.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • Again wheeling, this time at no more than two hundred yards, the whale charged back, not completing her semi-circle sufficiently, so that she bore down upon the schooner's bow from starboard.

    Chapter 15 1917

  • Ox people are truthful and sincere, and the idea of wheeling and dealing in a competitive world is distasteful to them.

    RedStateEclectic 2009

  • Ox people are truthful and sincere, and the idea of wheeling and dealing in a competitive world is distasteful to them.

    RedStateEclectic 2009

  • One has to wonder what kind of wheeling and dealings will go on to pull this off or does Fox have an ace in the hole?

    Will Bryan Singer be Directing X-Men: The First Class? 2010

  • Benefits of DE are multifold and include efficiency by way of both thermal gains for fossil fuel generators and reduced line or 'wheeling' losses.

    Decentralized Energy and National Security 2008

  • They wanted to wheel and deal, and they soon plunged Enron into businesses it knew nothing about: selling water in Europe; "wheeling" electric power into, and mostly out of, California; installing commercial air-conditioning systems; the Blockbuster deal; and, of course, the Internet.

    Books About Schnooks 2004

  • They wanted to wheel and deal, and they soon plunged Enron into businesses it knew nothing about: selling water in Europe; "wheeling" electric power into, and mostly out of, California; installing commercial air-conditioning systems; the Blockbuster deal; and, of course, the Internet.

    Books About Schnooks 2004

  • And it was just an extraordinary -- they called it "wheeling" then.

    America�s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines 2003

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