wheel-bandn.
/ˈwiːlband/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wilˌbænd/ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > iron tyre
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tire1782
tyre1795
1392–3 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 202 Item pro j whele~band, j scho pro curru, et emendacione currus, v gr.
1557 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 93 In the hay housse..iiij. qwele bannes.
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades vii. 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. dialect.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > band or strap
wheel-banda1656
band1706
strap1790
rim band1831
mill band1858
a1656 in Roxburghe Ballads (1881) IV. 101 It is a well twined Wheelband.
1693 C. Mather Wonders Invis. World (1862) 159 One Susanna Sheldon..had her hands Unaccountably ty'd together with a Wheel-band.
1706 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2166 To prevent the Recipients being drawn from its place by the motion and tug of the Wheel-band.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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