wheelband

English

Etymology

wheel +‎ band

Noun

wheelband (plural wheelbands)

(dated) The tyre of a wheel.
- 1773, Thomas Wilson, The Pitman's Pay (poem):
  Yor high-flown cheps oft fyel and brick,
  But we hev a'ways yet been yable
  Te keep the wheelband i' the nick
  Though oft wi' but a bareish tyeble.

References

“wheelband”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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