wheel about

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wheel about

verb wheels about · wheeling about · wheeled about

  1. intransitive To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl about. Thus hath the course of justice wheel’d about, And left thee but a very prey to time; Having no more but thought of what thou wert, To torture thee the more, being what thou art.

    Similar: wheel around

  2. transitive To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair, wheelbarrow or trolley. Then she called up all the careless nurserymaids, and stuck pins into them all over, and wheeled them about in perambulators with tight straps across their stomachs and their heads and arms hanging over the side, till they were quite sick and stupid […]

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@misc{wheel_about_2026,
  title = {wheel about},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wheel%20about},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}