WHEELING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wheeling mean? 

• WHEELING (noun)
  The noun WHEELING has 2 senses:

1. a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river

2. propelling something on wheels

  Familiarity information: WHEELING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHEELING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Wheeling" is a part of...):

Mountain State; W.V.; West Virginia; WV (a state in east central United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Propelling something on wheels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

rolling; wheeling

Hypernyms ("wheeling" is a kind of...):

actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)

Derivation:

wheel (move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle)

 Context examples 

“There they are! Stole away! Stole away!” he cried, wheeling the mares round into a side road which struck to the right out of that which we had travelled.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The plunge of our anchor sent up clouds of birds wheeling and crying over the woods, but in less than a minute they were down again and all was once more silent.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Did I not, I would soon have learned, for the wheeling figures of mist and snow came closer, but keeping ever without the Holy circle.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Shall we turn?” said Uriah, by and by wheeling me face about towards the town, on which the early moon was now shining, silvering the distant windows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Nearer and nearer came the two birds, all absorbed in their own contest, the stork wheeling upwards, the hawk still fluttering above it, until they were not a hundred paces from the camp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The HISPANIOLA herself, a few yards in whose wake I was still being whirled along, seemed to stagger in her course, and I saw her spars toss a little against the blackness of the night; nay, as I looked longer, I made sure she also was wheeling to the southward.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I kept my eyes fixed on the window, but the wolf drew his head back, and a whole myriad of little specks seemed to come blowing in through the broken window, and wheeling and circling round like the pillar of dust that travellers describe when there is a simoon in the desert.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)