wheel draft (hweldraft)

In steam- eng in., a continuous draft or current of smoke and hot air pa ing around in one direction, as distinguished from a direct, a reverting, or a split draft. wheeled (hweld), a. [ The wheel'd seat Of fortunate Cæsar. Shak ., A. and C., iv. 14. 75. The knights appear to have rejected with particular obstinacy the innovation of the wheeled spur. Hewitt, Ancient Armour, I. p. xxii. wheel-engraving (hwēl'en-grā"ving), n. In gla - manuf ., same as gla - engraving . wheeler (hwe'lėr), n. [ wheeler , and one boy called an off-bearer. C. T. Davis , Bricks and Tiles, p. 108. 2. A maker of wheels; a wheelwright.-3. A wheel-horse, or other animal driven in the place of one. We saw the vehicle turn over altogether, one of the wheelers down with its rider, and the leaders kicking. Thackeray, Philip, xlii. 6891 4. A worker of wheelwork on sewed muslin. Imp. Dict.-5. That which is provided with a wheel or wheels: used in composition: as, a stern- wheeler; a side - wheeler. The fast eight- wheelers have the Westing house automatic brake on drivers and tender. The Engineer, LXIX. 269. 6. Same as wheel - bird. [Prov. Eng.]-Near (or nigh) wheeler, the horse (or mule) on the left-hand side, ridden.- Off wheeler, the horse (or mule) on right-hand side; that one which the driver never rides.