wire wheel

[ wahyuhr hweel, weel wahyuhr hweel, weel ]

noun

1. a wheellike brush having stiff wire bristles and used especially for finishing or cleaning metal.
2. a wheel, as on a sports car, having wire spokes.

wire wheel

noun

1. a wheel in which the rim is held to the hub by wire spokes, esp one used on a sports car Compare disc wheel
2. a power-driven rotary wire brush for scaling or burnishing

Word History and Origins

Origin of wire wheel¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

As he was on his knees cleaning the spokes of a wire wheel, he noticed something shiny buried in the wet gravel.

From Washington Post

For that, his crew turns to an angle grinder fitted with a wire wheel, which the team uses as gently as possible.

From Washington Post

“Even after all these years I have no idea what you’re talking about half the time,” Saul tells him, after a long parable about a squirrel on a wire wheel with broken feet.

From New York Times

He is not to be seen just now; perhaps he is asleep for a while in his dark, little bedroom; but every one who catches sight of that wire wheel knows that it is a Squirrel who lives here.

From Project Gutenberg

Yes, it looks very pretty! when I used to watch my squirrel running round and round in his wire wheel in precisely the same way, and at last the wheel was turning so rapidly that I could not distinguish the bars, I thought it was capital fun.

From Project Gutenberg