wheel

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wheel/wiːl/

▶noun

• 1 a circular object that revolves on an axle, fixed below a vehicle to enable it to move over the ground or forming part of a machine.

• 2 something resembling a wheel or having a wheel as its essential part.

  ■ a steering wheel.

  ■ a device with a revolving disc or drum used in various games of chance.

  ■ a cheese made in the form of a shallow disc.

• 3 (wheels) informal a car.

• 4 an instance of wheeling; a turn or rotation.

• 5 a set of short lines concluding the stanza of a poem.

▶verb

• 1 push or pull (a vehicle with wheels).

  ■ carry in or on a vehicle with wheels.

  ■ (wheel something in/on/out) informal produce something that is unimpressive because it has been frequently seen or heard before.

• 2 fly or turn in a wide circle or curve.

  ■ turn round quickly to face another way.

– phrases
on wheels

• 1 travelling by car or cycle.

• 2 Brit. informal smoothly.

wheel and deal engage in commercial or political scheming, especially unscrupulously.
the wheel of Fortune the wheel which the deity Fortune is fabled to turn as a symbol of random luck or change.
wheels within wheels secret or indirect influences affecting a complex situation.

– derivatives
wheeled adjective,
wheelless adjective.

– origin OE hwēol (n.), of Gmc origin.