"wheelcraft" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: wheel + -craft Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|wheel|craft}} wheel + -craft Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} wheelcraft (uncountable)
  1. The art or skill of making and repairing wheels, or of riding on wheels. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-wheelcraft-en-noun-dCLtDQE9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -craft

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          "ref": "1876, William W. Fowler, Women on the American Frontier, page 155",
          "text": "The vehicles which they provided on such occasions for land carriage were curiosities of wheelcraft—I speak of the Jersey wagons. The old-fashioned Jersey wagon has, years ago, given place to more showy and flexible vehicles […]",
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          "ref": "1900, Frank R. Stockton, A Bicycle of Cathay",
          "text": "\"How did you happen to fall?\" I asked — not that I needed to inquire, for my own knowledge of wheelcraft assured me that she had tumbled simply because she did not know how to ride.",
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          "ref": "1935, Municipal Journal (volume 44, part 4, page 2036)",
          "text": "Perhaps the Darlaston company's spoked disc wheel is the one item which invites particular attention first, for it certainly represents good wheelcraft where strength without clumsiness is desired."
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          "ref": "1986, Arvind N. Das, The Longue Duree, page 24",
          "text": "[…] some households acquired bullock-carts which required a better breed of bullocks than were locally available, better wheelcraft than the village blacksmith-cum-carpenter could provide, iron rims for the wheels, and so on […]",
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