Definitions for driving-wheel

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driving-wheel driving wheel

Driving-Wheel is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 615 anagrams from letters in driving-wheel (-deeghiilnrvw).

Definitions for driving-wheel

noun

1. Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
2. Also called driver. Railroads. one of the wheels of a locomotive that transmits the power of an engine or motor into tractive effort.

Origin of driving-wheel

First recorded in 1830-40

Examples for driving-wheel

The driving wheel of his machine is only forty inches in diameter.

This is really the driving wheel by which it slowly moves up the steep gradient.

You see, the one holding on with his teeth, gripping the driving wheel.

An Automobile, and Fig. 161 shows how the clockwork motor is mounted upon the chassis and belted to the driving wheel.

And at length Mr. Rochester edges aside, and lets him take the driving wheel.

This curve is the best for the face of the teeth of a driving wheel.

If there are 16 teeth, then on the surface of the driving wheel there will be 96 teeth.

On the other, the rear wheel was enlarged and made the driving wheel.

These four flanges are then glued to the axle, and the side of the driving wheel.

This idea remained for years the driving wheel of his brain.