wheeling

Verb

wheel (third-person singular simple present wheels, present participle wheeling, simple past and past participle wheeled)

1. (transitive) To roll along on wheels.
   • Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
2. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
   • The patient was wheeled out of the ER.
3. (dated, intransitive) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
4. (intransitive) To make a circular movement.
   • My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help.
5. (intransitive) To move smoothly and easily, as if on wheels.
   • I wheeled through the gathering, making all my appointed stops.
6. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
   • Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,
     I say again, hath made a gross revolt;
     Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes
     In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
     Of here and every where.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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