sun wheel

noun

1. Machinery. sun gear.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sun wheel¹

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

So they replaced it with a Germanic “sun wheel” or a Sig rune.

From Salon

Last weekend, for instance, the account published a video that culminates in an image of soldiers marching in lockstep toward the Florida governor, whose head turns into a rotating Sonnenrad, or sun wheel.

From Slate

A third fascist group is led by Andrew Fountaine, a wealthy landowner who envisages a northern Europe community from which Jews and Negroes would be excluded; the group uses as its symbol the sun wheel emblem of Arminius, leader of the Germanic tribes that were said to have preserved Aryan "purity" by defeating the Romans in A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

But although this method did make the machinery revolve, it was not smoothly, for when the planet wheel was at either top or bottom of the sun wheel, the power of the engine was less effective than it was half way in the opposite positions.

From Project Gutenberg

They solemnized the return of the fiery sun wheel; they traced in those solstice days the operations on earth of Odin and Berchta.

From Project Gutenberg