| anywhere | (adverb) at or in or to any place | Synonyms: anyplace |
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| arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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| awheel | (adjective) traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g. | - |
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| awhile | (adverb) for a brief period | Synonyms: for a while |
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| bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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| bewhiskered | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, whiskered, whiskery |
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| blowhard | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| blowhole | (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: vent-hole, vent, venthole |
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| (noun) the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull | - |
| bobwhite | (noun) a popular North American game bird; named for its call | Synonyms: bobwhite quail, partridge |
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| bowhead | (noun) large-mouthed Arctic whale | Synonyms: Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, Greenland whale |
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| buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
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| (noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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| (noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| cartwheel | (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel | - |
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| (noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim | - |
| (noun) a dollar made of silver | Synonyms: silver dollar |
| (verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
| clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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| coachwhip | (noun) a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip | Synonyms: coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum |
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| (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, ocotillo, vine cactus |
| cogwheel | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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| cowhand | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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| cowherb | (noun) European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort | Synonyms: cow cockle, Saponaria vaccaria, Vaccaria hispanica, Vaccaria pyramidata |
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| cowherd | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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| cowhide | (noun) a heavy flexible whip braided from leather made from the hide of a cow | - |
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| (noun) leather made from the hide of a cow | Synonyms: cowskin |
| (noun) the hide of a cow | - |
| (verb) flog with a cowhide | - |
| cowhouse | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowshed |
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| eggwhisk | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggbeater |
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| elsewhere | (adverb) in or to another place | - |
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| erstwhile | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
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| (adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erst, formerly, once |
| everywhere | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everyplace |
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| flywheel | (noun) regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine | - |
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| freewheel | (noun) a clutch (as on the rear wheel of a bicycle) that allows wheels to turn freely (as in coasting) | - |
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| (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: drift |
| freewheeler | (noun) someone acting freely or even irresponsibly | Synonyms: free agent, free spirit |
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| freewheeling | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of restraints or rules | - |
| handwheel | (noun) control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated | - |
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| (noun) a wheel worked by hand | - |
| horsewhip | (noun) a whip for controlling horses | - |
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| (verb) whip with a whip intended for horses | - |
| horsewhipping | (noun) the act of whipping with a horsewhip | - |
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| kowhai | (noun) shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood | Synonyms: Sophora tetraptera |
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| lintwhite | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, linnet |
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| meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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| (adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meantime |
| (adverb) at the same time but in another place | - |
| millwheel | (noun) water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill | Synonyms: mill wheel |
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| narwhal | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhale |
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| narwhale | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhal |
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| nosewheel | (noun) a wheel located under the nose of an airplane that is part of the plane's landing gear | - |
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| nowhere | (noun) an insignificant place | - |
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| (adverb) not anywhere; in or at or to no place | - |
| overwhelm | (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: deluge, flood out |
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| (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overpower |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, submerge |
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overtake, sweep over, whelm |
| overwhelming | (adjective) very strong; urgently felt | Synonyms: consuming |
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| (adjective) so strong as to be irresistible | Synonyms: overpowering |
| overwhelmingly | (adverb) incapable of being resisted | Synonyms: irresistibly, overpoweringly |
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| paddlewheel | (noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | Synonyms: paddle wheel |
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| pennywhistle | (noun) an inexpensive fipple flute | Synonyms: tin whistle, whistle |
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| pinwheel | (noun) a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire | Synonyms: catherine wheel |
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| (noun) a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind | Synonyms: pinwheel wind collector |
| (noun) a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim | - |
| (noun) perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels | Synonyms: Aeonium haworthii |
| rawhide | (noun) untanned hide especially of cattle; cut in strips it is used for whips and ropes | - |
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| sawhorse | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawbuck |
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| somewhat | (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably |
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| (adverb) to a small degree or extent | Synonyms: more or less, slightly |
| somewhere | (noun) an indefinite or unknown location | - |
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| (adverb) in or at or to some place | Synonyms: someplace |
| sternwheeler | (noun) a paddle steamer having the paddle wheel in the stern | - |
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| towhead | (noun) a person with light blond hair | - |
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| towheaded | (adjective) of hair color; whitish | Synonyms: ash-blonde, platinum-blonde |
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| towhee | (noun) any of numerous long-tailed American finches | - |
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| treadwheel | (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadmill |
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| unwholesome | (adjective) detrimental to physical or moral well-being | - |
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| unwholesomeness | (noun) the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you | Synonyms: morbidity, morbidness |
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| waterwheel | (noun) a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine | Synonyms: water wheel |
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| (noun) a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond | Synonyms: water wheel |
| whack | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whang |
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| (noun) the sound made by a sharp swift blow | - |
| (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, wham, whop |
| whacked | (adjective) (British informal) exhausted or worn out | - |
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| whacker | (noun) something especially big or impressive of its kind | Synonyms: whopper |
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| whacking | (adjective) (British informal) enormous | - |
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| (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing |
| (adverb) to an abnormal extent | - |
| whacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, wacko |
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| whacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, wacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky |
| whale | (noun) any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head | - |
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| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, heavyweight, hulk |
| (verb) hunt for whales | - |
| whaleboat | (noun) a long narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas | - |
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| whalebone | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: baleen |
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| whaler | (noun) a ship engaged in whale fishing | Synonyms: whaling ship |
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| (noun) a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales | - |
| whalesucker | (noun) large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins | Synonyms: Remilegia australis, whale sucker |
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| wham | (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, whack, whop |
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| whammy | (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: curse, hex, jinx |
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| (noun) a serious or devastating setback | - |
| whang | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whack |
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| (verb) attack forcefully | - |
| (verb) propel or hit with force | - |
| (verb) beat with force | - |
| whap | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, sock, whop |
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| wharf | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharfage |
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| (verb) moor at a wharf | - |
| (verb) discharge at a wharf | - |
| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, moor |
| (verb) store on a wharf | - |
| (verb) provide with a wharf | - |
| wharfage | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharf |
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| (noun) a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay | Synonyms: quayage |
| whatchamacallit | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| whatchamacallum | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatsis, widget |
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| whatever | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: any, whatsoever |
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| whatnot | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, nicknack |
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| whatsis | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, widget |
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| whatsoever | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: any, whatever |
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| wheal | (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, weal, welt |
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| wheat | (noun) a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white | Synonyms: pale yellow, straw |
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| (noun) grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour | Synonyms: wheat berry |
| (noun) annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains | - |
| wheatear | (noun) small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump | - |
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| wheaten | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from wheat | Synonyms: whole-wheat, wholemeal |
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| wheatfield | (noun) a field planted with wheat | Synonyms: wheat field |
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| wheatflake | (noun) crisp flake made from wheat | - |
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| wheatgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Agropyron | Synonyms: wheat-grass |
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| wheatworm | (noun) small roundworm parasitic on wheat | Synonyms: Tylenchus tritici, wheat eel, wheat eelworm |
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| wheedle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk |
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| wheedler | (noun) someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing | Synonyms: coaxer |
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| wheedling | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: blandishment |
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| wheel | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines) | - |
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| (noun) a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel | - |
| (noun) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims | Synonyms: rack |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in | Synonyms: roulette wheel |
| (noun) a handwheel that is used for steering | Synonyms: steering wheel |
| (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle |
| (noun) forces that provide energy and direction | - |
| (verb) change directions as if revolving on a pivot | Synonyms: wheel around |
| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: roll |
| (verb) wheel somebody or something | Synonyms: wheel around |
| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle, pedal |
| wheelbarrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: barrow, garden cart, lawn cart |
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| (verb) transport in a wheelbarrow | - |
| wheelbase | (noun) the distance from the center of a car's front wheel to the rear axle | - |
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| wheelchair | (noun) a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant | - |
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| wheeled | (adjective) having wheels; often used in combination | - |
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| wheeler | (noun) a draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle | Synonyms: wheel horse |
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| (noun) someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels | Synonyms: wheelwright |
| (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, biker, cyclist |
| (noun) the man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling | - |