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Handwheel

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a set screw.

    "Front damper doors on each hopper and the back damper door of the centre hopper are opened and closed by screw gear worked from a handwheel on the fireman's side of the cab."

  2. 2
    control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated wordnet
  3. 3
    a wheel worked by hand wordnet

Etymology

From hand + wheel.

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