Wheelband

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The tyre of a wheel. dated

    "Yor high-flown cheps oft fyel and brick, But we hev a'ways yet been yable Te keep the wheelband i' the nick Though oft wi' but a bareish tyeble."

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"Yor high-flown cheps oft fyel and brick, But we hev a'ways yet been yable Te keep the wheelband i' the nick Though oft wi' but a bareish tyeble."

Etymology

From wheel + band.

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