Definition of Fire-wheel

1. Noun. Annual of central United States having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire-wheel

fire-eater
fire-eaters
fire-engine
fire-fanged
fire-new
fire-on-the-mountain
fire-proof
fire-raising
fire-resistant
fire-resisting
fire-resistive
fire-retardant
fire-sale
fire-stop
fire-swallower
fire-wheel (current term)
fire-worship
fire air
fire alarm
fire alarm horn
fire alarm horns
fire alarms
fire and brimstone
fire and forget
fire ant
fire ant stings
fire ants
fire at will
fire away
fire axe

Literary usage of Fire-wheel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam-engines, and of Their by Robert Stuart (1829)
"... be prevented from filling what may be designated the air-chambers. The fire-wheel, as described by its author, consists of two concentric ..."

2. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1865)
"Every lighted point moving in a circle, as soon as it has acquired a certain velocity, presents to the eye a form which may be called a fire-wheel, ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1856)
"But he gave the preference to the plan of rotating by means of a simple but peculiar sort of fire-wheel behind, producing a tangential force which increases ..."

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