artillery wheel

English

Noun

artillery wheel (plural artillery wheels)

  1. (military) A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, having spokes fitted together in a keystone fashion in miter joints.
  2. a wheel of similar construction formerly used on automobiles, etc.

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