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wire-wheeling

wire-wheeling is the present participle and gerund of wire-wheel.

Meaning of wire-wheel

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To clean (something, especially a rusty workpiece) with a wire wheel.
    • They usually wire-wheel rusty stock when prepping it for fabrication.

Questions about wire-wheeling

What is wire-wheeling the present participle and gerund of?
Wire-wheeling is the present participle and gerund of wire-wheel.

Words near wire-wheeling in the dictionary

  1. wire-tapping
  2. wire-taps
  3. wire-to-wire
  4. wire-wheel
  5. wire-wheeled
  6. wire-wheeling
  7. wire-wheels
  8. wire-wove
  9. wireable
  10. wireback
  11. wirebacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wire-wheeling (page history and authors); wire-wheel (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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