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grinding wheels

grinding wheels is the plural of grinding wheel.

Meaning of grinding wheel

Noun

grinding wheel (plural grinding wheels)

  1. A wheel composed of an abrasive compound and used for various grinding and abrasive machining operations.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Something that wears down or harms by attrition.
    • A competing branch argues, in turn, that crime policy—policing policy in particular—has become more punitive given the heightened power of penal bureaucrats together with the diminished influence of the persons and populations most often subject to the grinding wheels of penal administration.2021, Trevor George Gardner, “By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law”, in Yale Law Journal Forum, page 800

Questions about grinding wheels

What is grinding wheels the plural of?
Grinding wheels is the plural of grinding wheel.

Words near grinding wheels in the dictionary

  1. grinding stone
  2. grinding stones
  3. grinding the corn
  4. grinding up
  5. grinding wheel
  6. grinding wheels
  7. grindingly
  8. grindings
  9. grindle
  10. grindle-stone
  11. grindle-stones

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