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drivewheel

drivewheel is the alternative spelling of drive wheel.

Meaning of drive wheel

Noun

drive wheel (plural drive wheels)

  1. A wheel that transmits power to other elements of a mechanism.
    • Squeezing two handles together pressed a serrated drive wheel against the can rim. And rotating a T-handle turned a toothed drive wheel1974, Rudolf F. Graf with George J. Whalen, How it works, illustrated: everyday devices and mechanisms, page 38
  2. (industrial) One of the wheels of a motor vehicle that drives (in the engineering sense), that is, one of the wheels that takes power from the drivetrain and applies it to the ground so as to propel the vehicle.
    • You should have tire chains on your drive wheels in this weather.

Forms of drivewheel

pluraldrivewheels

Questions about drivewheel

What is drivewheel the alternative spelling of?
Drivewheel is the alternative spelling of drive wheel.

Words near drivewheel in the dictionary

  1. driveway access
  2. driveway accesses
  3. driveway moment
  4. driveway moments
  5. driveways
  6. drivewheel
  7. drivewheels
  8. drivin'
  9. driving
  10. driving a coach and horses through
  11. driving a coach and six through

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drivewheel (page history and authors); drive wheel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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