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ˈwalking-wheel
[walking vbl. n.1 and ppl. a.]
a. = pedometer.
†b. (See quot. 1744.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Perambulator, a walking-wheel, a rolling Wheel made of Wood or Iron, with a Movement, a Face divided like a Clock and Indexes, to shew how many Yards, Poles, Furlongs and Miles one goes in driving it before him. 1744Desaguliers Course Exper. Philos. II. 417 Then the Wheel being also a walking Wheel, the same Men get into it, in which case they have Power sufficient to raise the small Goods 5 or 6 times faster than the heaviest. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Walking-wheel, a pedometer. |