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handwheels

handwheels is the plural 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

Questions about handwheels

What is handwheels the plural of?
Handwheels is the plural of handwheel.

Words near handwheels in the dictionary

  1. handwell
  2. handwells
  3. Handwerk
  4. Handwerks
  5. handwheel
  6. handwheels
  7. handwhile
  8. handwhiles
  9. handwipe
  10. handwipes
  11. handwork

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handwheels (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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