flat wheel

Example Sentences

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An occasional Madison Avenue car could be heard ringing along the cold rails, or rhythmically bounding down hill on a flat wheel.

From The Happiest Time of Their Lives by Miller, Alice Duer

And as "Lady" told of the beauty of the meadow where we had been delayed "almost two hours by an old flat wheel, or something like that—isn't that the term, Mr. Crosby?"

From The Professor's Mystery by Hastings, Wells

Jamie gazed about thoughtfully, then concluded: "They was a flat wheel on the rear truck."

From The Rosie World by Fillmore, Parker

The third-class car, joggling along on a flat wheel, was full of the smell of sweat and sour wine.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John

Moreover the gout in his bad foot troubled him more and more, and he ceased to get much satisfaction from rolling around on a "flat wheel" and scaring people with his tracks.

From Bears I Have Met—and Others by Kelly, Allen