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wheelwork

[ hweel-wurk, weel- ]

noun

  1. a train of gears, as in a timepiece.


wheelwork

/ ˈɾːˌɜː /

noun

  1. an arrangement of wheels in a machine, esp a train of gears
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of wheelwork1

First recorded in 1660–70; wheel + work
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The feminine forms which, towering majestically above the thrones of wheelwork, look down upon the dwarfed passenger or equestrian, are to-day perceived to have been presented on no exaggerated scale in the pages of Punch.

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He is part of the rush in our social wheelwork, and yet he makes it move more slowly.

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But are we prepared to grant this first position—to assert that man is but an automaton, whose wheelwork is entirely without—the mere buffet and plaything of accident and circumstances?

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Beside the paternal face, before which, with most children, the whole wheelwork of a free behavior grates and sticks, a third cause made him disconcerted and witty,–namely, that he was after something.

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The awkward footsteps of this rough man have crushed to pieces the artificial wheelwork.

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