wheel

[ hweel, weel ]
/ ʰwil, wil /

noun

verb (used with object)

verb (used without object)

Idioms for wheel

Origin of wheel

before 900; (noun) Middle English whel(e), Old English hwēol, hweohl; cognate with Dutch wiel, Old Norse hjōl; akin to Greek kýklos (see cycle); (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun

OTHER WORDS FROM wheel

wheel·less, adjective un·der·wheel, noun un·wheel, verb (used with object)

British Dictionary definitions for wheels within wheels

wheel
/ (wiːl) /

noun

verb

See also wheels

Derived forms of wheel

wheel-less, adjective

Word Origin for wheel

Old English hweol, hweowol; related to Old Norse hvēl, Greek kuklos, Middle Low German wēl, Dutch wiel

Idioms and Phrases with wheels within wheels (1 of 2)

wheels within wheels

Complex interacting processes, agents, or motives, as in It's difficult to find out just which government agency is responsible; there are wheels within wheels. This term, which now evokes the complex interaction of gears, may derive from a scene in the Bible (Ezekiel 1:16): “Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.” [c. 1600]

Idioms and Phrases with wheels within wheels (2 of 2)

wheel