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ˈwheel-band [f. wheel n. + band n.2] †1. The tire of a wheel. Obs.
1392–3Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 202 Item pro j whele⁓band, j scho pro curru, et emendacione currus, v gr. 1557Richmond Wills (Surtees) 93 In the hay housse..iiij. qwele bannes. 1598Chapman Iliad vii. R 3 b, [xi. 466] The chariote tree was dround in bloode, and th' arches by the seat Disperpled from the horses houes, and from the wheelbandes beate. 2. A band or strap that goes round a wheel, as the driving band of a spinning-wheel. dial.
a1656Roxb. Ball. (1881) IV. 101 It is a well twined Wheelband. 1693C. Mather Wond. Invis. World (1862) 159 One Susanna Sheldon..had her hands Unaccountably ty'd together with a Wheel-band. 1705Phil. Trans. XXV. 2166 To prevent the Recipients being drawn from its place by the motion and tug of the Wheel-band. |