match wheel

A cog-wheel adapted to mesh into or work with another. *mătch (1), v. t. [MATCH (1), 8.) To purify, as ve els, by burning a match in them. mătch (2), *mache, v. t. & i. [MATCH (2), 8.] A. Transitive : 1. To be a match for or to be equal to; to equal; to be able to compete with. "A wretch whose sorrows matched my own." Scott: Rokeby, iv. 23. 2. To compare as equal; to put forward as a match or equal. 3. To oppose as equal; to set against or put forward as an equal in contest. "Eternal might To match with their inventions they presumed So easy." Milton: P. L. , vi. 631. 4. To oppose as a match or equal; to contend against as a match. 5. To suit; to make to harmonize or accord. "So well was matched the tartan screen With heath bell dark and brackens green." Scott: Lady of the Lake, iii. 31. 6. To suit, to accommodate, to proportion. "Let poets mat oh their subject to their strength." Roscommon: On Poetry. C. As subst.: The act of providing with a match; suiting or accommodating.