Word: wheel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel From Middle English whel, from Old English hwēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hwehwl, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, *hweulō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos, *kʷékʷléh₂, reduplication of *kʷel- (“to turn”) and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns"). See also West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hjul; also Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀 (caxra), Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá); and Latin colō (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl- (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō, “to come into existence, become”), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (caraⁱti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit चरति (cárati, “it moves, wanders”). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, and kike. Pronunciation: /ˈwiːl/, [ˈwɪi̯l], /ˈʍiːl/, [ˈʍɪi̯l] ~ /ˈw̥iːl/, [ˈw̥ɪi̯l] 1. To roll along on wheels. Labels: transitive Example: Wheel that trolley over here, would you? Example: I had to wheel my bicycle up a steep hill. 2. To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair. Labels: transitive Example: The patient was wheeled out of the ER. Example: She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow Along a stretch of road; But she always ran away and left Her not-nice load, 3. To ride a bicycle or tricycle. Labels: dated, intransitive 4. To make a circular movement. Labels: intransitive Example: My arms wheeled frantically in the air as I tried to signal for help. 5. To move smoothly and easily, as if on wheels. Labels: intransitive Example: I wheeled through the gathering, making all my appointed stops. 6. To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around. Labels: intransitive Example: 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. Example: The dog screamed, and, wheeling in terror, galloped headlong in a new direction. 7. To cause to change direction quickly, turn. Labels: transitive Example: […] he did as Menelaus had said, and set off running as soon as he had given his armour to a comrade, Laodocus, who was wheeling his horses round, close beside him. Example: Then wheeling his black steed suddenly, he raced away before the dazed soldiers could get their wits together to send a shower of arrows after him. 8. To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air. Labels: intransitive Example: The vulture wheeled above us. Example: […] Each aloft Upon his narrowed eminence bore globes Of wheeling suns, or stars, or semblances Of either, showering circular abyss Of radiance. 9. To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle. Labels: transitive Example: Now Heav’n in all her Glorie shon, and rowld Her motions, as the great first-Movers hand First wheeld thir course; Example: Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: 10. To reload a track; to play a wheel-up. Labels: intransitive Example: The crowd wanted to track to be played again, so they shouted out "Wheel it". 11. To execute (a person) using the breaking wheel. Labels: transitive