Meaning of wheel around | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair, wheelbarrow or trolley.
   transitive
2. To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl around.
   intransitive
3. To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
   transitive
4. In dancing, when a couple, holding hands, turns around 180 degrees, with the left hand dancer moving backward and the right hand dancer moving forward.
   intransitive

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Examples

“[…] meals consisted of sandwiches and Victory Coffee wheeled round on trolleys by attendants from the canteen.”

“The pony made a moment’s pause; but, as if it occurred to him that to stop⟳ when he was required might be to establish⟳ an inconvenient and dangerous precedent, he immediately started off again, rattled at a fast trot to the street corner, wheeled round, came back, and then stopped of his own⟳ accord.”

“At the next corner a shrill whistle sounded in Sam’s ear. He wheeled around and saw⟳ a black-browed villain scowling at him over peanuts heaped on a steaming machine.”

“The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell⟳ of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.”

“1834, “Burnes’s Travels into Bokhara” in The Quarterly Review⟳, London: John Murray, Volume 52, August and November, 1834, p. 387, The river of Cabool was crossed on a raft supported on inflated skins […] Its rapidity, formed into eddies, wheeled them round, and they had the agreeable satisfaction of being told that, if carried some way down, there was a whirlpool round which, if once enclosed in its circle, they might revolve, in hunger and giddiness, for a whole day.”

“As soon as the crossing was effected, the general’s face⟳ suddenly took on an expression of deliberation and seriousness; he wheeled his horse around, and at full gallop rode across the wide forest-surrounded field which spread⟳ before us.”

“1950, Lee Owens and Viola Ruth, Advanced Square Dance⟳ Figures of the West and Southwest, Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, “The Do-Si-Do Shuffle,” p. 108, When in Opposites’ positions, the two Head Couples dance⟳ a Right and Left Through to their home place⟳ where they wheel around to face⟳ the center.”

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