ˈwheel-band
[f. wheel n. + band n.2]
† 1. The tire of a wheel. Obs.
| 1392–3 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 202 Item pro j whele⁓band, j scho pro curru, et emendacione currus, v gr. 1557 Richmond Wills (Surtees) 93 In the hay housse..iiij. qwele bannes. 1598 Chapman Iliad vii. R 3 b, [xi. 466] The chariote tree was dround in bloode, and th' arches by the seat Disperpled from the horses houes, and from the wheelbandes beate. |
2. A band or strap that goes round a wheel, as the driving band of a spinning-wheel. dial.
| a 1656 Roxb. Ball. (1881) IV. 101 It is a well twined Wheelband. 1693 C. Mather Wond. Invis. World (1862) 159 One Susanna Sheldon..had her hands Unaccountably ty'd together with a Wheel-band. 1705 Phil. Trans. XXV. 2166 To prevent the Recipients being drawn from its place by the motion and tug of the Wheel-band. |