fellow wheel (felohwel)

One of a pair of matched wheels working together. His invention comprised a portable steam-engine, mounted on a framework, mainly supported by a pair of broad fellow - wheels behind. Ure, Dict., IV. 3. IMG:content-1199.png:[blocks in formation] 2176 = felstone fell on = OSp. fell on It. fellone , a., wicked, wicked, such as constitutes a crime of the cla termed cruel, inhuman, ML. fello , felo ( n- ), a. traitorous, felonies. Indictments for capital offenses must treacherous, n. a traitor, rebel (in Eng. law state the act to have been done feloniously. any malefactor punishable with death: see And after that he overthrewe tweyne with the tronchon felo ); prop. a noun, fel = Pr. fel , wicked, so felenoyusly that the i wiste not whethir it was nyght or malignant, treacherous, fell, = It. fello , wicked, day. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 459. to be connected with E. fell4 (in AS. only in comp. -fel, -felo, -fæle ), both, it seems, ult. of Celtic origin: cf. Gael. feallan, a felon, traitor, Bret. fall on i, treachery; Gael. Bret. fall = Ir. feal, evil; W. and Corn. ffel, wily (cf. E. fell4 in sense of 'wily, shrewd'); the ult. verb being Gael. and Ir. feallaim, I betray, deceive, fail, ef. Bret. fall a at, impair, render base; orig. Skins; furs; hide. But [he] beggith and borwith of burgeis in tounes ffurris of ffoyne and other felle -ware, And not the better of a bene thoug they boru euere. Richard the Redele , iii. 150. felly1, felloel (fel'i, -ō), n.; pl. fellies , felloes (-iz, -ōz). [( a ) Felly , fely , vely , pl. felien , velion (for* velien ), later feliis . ( b ) Felloe (prop. spelled * follow , like bellow -s, gallow -s, sallow , willow , etc.), dial. also fellick , felk , also (early mod. E.) felloff (with various development of the orig. terminal guttural); felow , felowe , earlier felwe , pl. felwes , felues , once feleyghes ; felg (nom. rare, dat. felge ) , usually in pl. felga (rarely felgan ), tr. L. cantus (for canthus ), usually in pl. cant i , fellies; = D. velg = OHG. felga , MHG. velge , G. felge = Dan. fælge ( belly , bel- lows.] The circular rim of a wheel, into which the outer ends of the spokes are inserted; in the plural, the curved pieces of wood which, joined together by dowel-pins, form the circumference or circular rim of a cart or carriage-wheel, each receiving the end of at least one spoke. Wheel. a, felly; b, spoke; c, hub. IMG:content-1200.png:[blocks in formation] Spenser, Sonnets, lvi. t. A dialectal variant of fallow2. 1. An auger for felly3 (fel'i), v. t. felly-auger (fel'i-âger), n. boring the holes for the spokes in a felly.-2. A hollow auger used for forming the tenons of a wheel-spoke.