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hand wheel

hand wheel is the alternative form of handwheel.

Meaning of handwheel

Noun

handwheel (plural handwheels)

  1. Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a set screw.
    • Front damper doors on each hopper and the back damper door of the centre hopper are opened and closed by screw gear worked from a handwheel on the fireman's side of the cab.1954 July, “British Railways Prototype Class "8" Express Passenger Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 491

Forms of hand wheel

pluralhand wheels

Questions about hand wheel

What is hand wheel the alternative form of?
Hand wheel is the alternative form of handwheel.

Words near hand wheel in the dictionary

  1. hand waving
  2. hand wavings
  3. hand wavy
  4. hand wedge
  5. hand wedges
  6. hand wheel
  7. hand wheels
  8. hand windmill
  9. hand windmills
  10. hand wringing
  11. hand wringings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hand wheel (page history and authors); handwheel (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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