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driving wheel

driving wheel noun: on a steam locomotive, a powered wheel driven by the locomotive's pistons or turbine.

Noun

driving wheel (plural driving wheels)

  1. On a steam locomotive, a powered wheel driven by the locomotive's pistons or turbine.
    • Just after leaving Milford the axle of the driving wheel of the locomotive broke, and before the train could be checked the trucks of the tender were thrown from the track; […]1860 January 23, “News of the Day”, in The New York Times, volume IX, number 2602, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2025, page 4, column 1
    • Though of the same width as smaller engines, the ten giants are longer and higher, with immense driving wheels that make the wheels of most other freight locomotives look like toy hoops.1904 March 6, “Gen. [Benjamin] Butler’s Face in Rock”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2025
    Synonyms:
    driver
  2. Synonym of steering wheel.
    • My mother would be smoking, ashes falling in her lap, she would be sitting on a cushion so she could see over the driving wheel. […] She would drive slowly so she could look at the houses carefully.1999, Anne Roiphe, chapter 1, in 1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: The Free Press, →ISBN, page 1
    • Thanks in part to traffic school, I realize that one of the most dangerous activities I will be letting my children engage in is driving a car. As a parent, I will do my best to teach them the incredible responsibility they have when they put their hands on the driving wheel.2006 July 9, Nancy Yarbrough, “Teach safe driving to prevent deaths”, in The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5C, column 4
    Synonyms:
    steering wheel
  3. A wheel that transmits motion to other wheels or machinery.
    • [W]hilſt this driving Wheel revolves once, the upright Wheel, or that which hath 8 Pinions, will revolve 5.625 Times; […]1752, Sam[uel] Bamfield, quotee, “Answers to the Mathematical Questions in 1751”, in The Gentleman’s Diary, or The Mathematical Repository; […], volume XII, London: […] Company of Stationers, →OCLC...
    • The driving wheel on this machine is admitted to be the simplest, easiest running and most convenient of any.1888 December 8, Weekly Times Publishing Co., “The Best Bargain Ever Offered in Sewing Machines. […]”, in The Davenport Weekly Times, volume 2, number 29, Davenport, Ia.: Weekly Times Publishing Co....

driving wheel meaning in Tamil

driving wheel in Tamil

செலுத்துஞ்சில்லு, ஓட்டும் சக்கரம்

Examples of driving wheel in a sentence

  • So, despite some MPs’ concerns about safety statistics, leading insurers believe that older hands on the driving wheel are likely to be wiser and safer hands.2012 April 7, “Motor insurer helps ‘baby vroomers’ stay on the road”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 48,788, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page...
  • “You should have both hands on the driving wheel, so you can drive defensively and you’re prepared for anything that may happen,” [Michael] Reaves said.2016 September 10, Sydney Smith, “Bill would ban drivers’ hand-held phones”, in Times Herald, Port Huron, Mich.: Times Herald Co., →OCLC...
  • Every first- and third-party controller, every fight stick, every driving wheel, every media remote, and every already formatted storage device will be compatible with the new consoles.2020 November 5, Arthur Gies, “Choosing the Right Xbox: Series X or Series S”, in Wirecutter, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company...
  • The dog is made to rotate a central shaft carrying a large gear wheel which meshes with a small bevel gear carried on the sewing machine driving wheel.1910 July 25, “Curiosities of Invention”, in The Montreal Daily Star, volume XLII, number 175, Montreal, Que., →OCLC, page 14, column 6:

Synonyms of driving wheel

Forms of driving wheel

pluraldriving wheels
alternative form (dated)driving-wheel

Questions about driving wheel

What does driving wheel mean?
Driving wheel means on a steam locomotive, a powered wheel driven by the locomotive's pistons or turbine.
What is driving wheel in Tamil?
Driving wheel in Tamil is செலுத்துஞ்சில்லு, ஓட்டும் சக்கரம். See Driving wheel meaning in Tamil.
How do you use driving wheel in a sentence?
So, despite some MPs’ concerns about safety statistics, leading insurers believe that older hands on the driving wheel are likely to be wiser and safer hands.
What part of speech is driving wheel?
Driving wheel is a noun.
What is the plural of driving wheel?
The plural of driving wheel is driving wheels.

Words near driving wheel in the dictionary

  1. driving truck
  2. driving under the influence
  3. driving up
  4. driving van trailer
  5. driving van trailers
  6. driving wheel
  7. driving wheels
  8. driving while black
  9. driving while Mexican
  10. driving wind
  11. driving winds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: driving wheel (page history and authors); driving wheel (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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