wheelwright (hwelrit)

[ A wifman of so much my3th, So wonder a whelwry 3th , Sey I nevere with syzth. a man MS . Laud . 108, fol. 237 (Rel. Antiq., II. 8). The basket-maker peeling his willow wands in the sunshine; the wheelwright putting the last touch to a blue cart with red wheels. George Eliot , Felix Holt, Int. Wheelwrights' machine, an adjustable machine for doing some of the various operations by which a wagon wheel is made, as boring the hubs and fellies and tenoning the spokes.