Definition of Fire wheel

1. Noun. Annual of central United States having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Wheel

fire thorn
fire tongs
fire tower
fire tower stairway
fire tree
fire trench
fire truck
fire trucks
fire up
fire walker
fire walking
fire warden
fire watch
fire watcher
fire watching
fire wheel (current term)
fireable
firearm
firearmed
firearms
fireback
firebacks
fireball
fireballer
fireballers
fireballing
firebare
firebares
firebase

Literary usage of Fire wheel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam-engines, and of Their by Robert Stuart (1829)
"... be prevented from filling what may be designated the air-chambers. The fire-wheel, as described by its author, consists of two concentric ..."

2. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1865)
"Every lighted point moving in a circle, as soon as it has acquired a certain velocity, presents to the eye a form which may be called a fire-wheel, ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1856)
"But he gave the preference to the plan of rotating by means of a simple but peculiar sort of fire-wheel behind, producing a tangential force which increases ..."

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