wire-wheel

English

Noun

wire-wheel (plural wire-wheels)

  1. Alternative spelling of wire wheel.

Verb

wire-wheel (third-person singular simple present wire-wheels, present participle wire-wheeling, simple past and past participle wire-wheeled)

  2. (transitive) To clean (something, especially a rusty workpiece) with a wire wheel.
    They usually wire-wheel rusty stock when prepping it for fabrication.
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