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Definition of Driving wheel
1. Noun. A wheel that drives a motor vehicle (transforms torque into a tractive force).
Definition of Driving wheel
1. Noun. On a steam locomotive, a powered wheel driven by the locomotive's pistons or turbine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Driving Wheel
Literary usage of Driving wheel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1881)
"Piston follower, for Driving-wheel Brake. 13. Eccentric-lever, complete, for Driving-
... Piston Packing-leather, for Driving-wheel Brake. ing-wheel Brake. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1867)
"The proposed plan consists merely in adding a second flange to the driving- wheel.
The two flanges being closer together at the base than the middle of the ..."
3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1891)
"lbs., being interposed between the lugs and the hub, allowing a motion of fonr
feet on the circumference of the six-foot diameter rope-driving wheel, ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The secondary frame, it is said, is not left free to play up and down, but is
prolonged beyond the driving-wheel to a standard in the form of an arc, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The brothers Starley, by putting a second small wheel in front of the large
driving wheel and on the same side as the small hind wheel, gave stability to ..."
6. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by American Railway Association, Master Car Builders' Association, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads (1881)
"LIST OP NAMES OF тик PARTS OF WESTINGHOUSE DRIVING-WHEEL BRAKE DESIGNATED BY ...
Cross-head, for Driving- Piston Packing-expander, for Driving-wheel Brake. ..."
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