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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.
Generic synonyms: Gaillardia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Wheel
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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