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driving wheel

a wheel that transmits motion, as one of the large wheels of a locomotive which receive power from the engine by means of the connecting rod

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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