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artillery wheel

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artillery wheel (plural artillery wheels)

  1. (military) A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes
  2. a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for artillery wheel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)