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"To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair, wheelbarrow or trolley."
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"(transitive) To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair, wheelbarrow or trolley."
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"ref": "1908, O. Henry, “Squaring the Circle”, in The Voice of the City, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, published 1914, pages 130–131",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8",
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"To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl around."
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"(intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl around."
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"text": "1834, “Burnes’s Travels into Bokhara” in The Quarterly Review, London: John Murray, Volume 52, August and November, 1834, p. 387,\nThe 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."
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"ref": "1887, Leo Tolstoy, “The Invaders”, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., The Invaders and Other Stories, New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co., published 1853, pages 29–30",
"text": "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.",
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"To cause to change direction quickly, turn."
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"(transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn."
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"text": "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,\nWhen 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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"(intransitive) 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."
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"ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8",
"text": "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.",
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},
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"ref": "1887, Leo Tolstoy, “The Invaders”, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., The Invaders and Other Stories, New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co., published 1853, pages 29–30",
"text": "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.",
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"To cause to change direction quickly, turn."
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"(transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn."
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"text": "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,\nWhen 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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