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Definition of Ferris wheel
1. Noun. A vertical rotating mechanism consisting of a large wheel with suspended seats that remain upright as the wheel rotates; provides a ride at an amusement park.
Definition of Ferris wheel
1. Noun. A ride, at a fair, consisting of a large upright rotating wheel having suspended seats that remain in a horizontal position as the wheel revolves. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferris Wheel
Literary usage of Ferris wheel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book on Roofs and Bridges by Mansfield Merriman, Henry Sylvester Jacoby (1896)
"A Ferris wheel WITH TENSILE SPOKES. Let Fig. 86 represent a small Ferris wheel
of six segments supported at the hub and carrying six equal loads at the six ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1897)
"PEOPLE of the Slate of Illinois, ex rd. Ferris wheel COMPANY. ' (182 TIL 531.)
1. The provision requiring an ordinance to be first referred to a committee ..."
3. Travel and Talk, 1885-93-95: My Hundred Thousand Miles of Travel Through by Hugh Reginald Haweis (1897)
"But the colossal Ferris wheel now rises in front of me, dividing the Plaisance.
It has a diameter of 300 feet. You sit in a car on the revolving ..."
4. Paris of To-day by Richard Whiteing (1900)
"THE Ferris wheel IN PARIS —A QUEER LANDSCAPE created, if only by the judicious
treatment of original wild and marsh. It is a keepsake fairyland in which ..."
5. The Indiana School Journal by Indiana State Teachers Association (1893)
"THE TEACHER'S Ferris wheel. The sermon described above suggests an important
pedagogical principle, namely, that the teacher ..."
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