handwheel

1. 1.

   a wheel worked by hand

   Broaderwheel

   Part ofstanding pressvalvelathe
2. 2.

   control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated

   Broadercontrol

   Narrowersteering wheel

   Part ofvalvelathe

Other forms of handwheel

plural

handwheels·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about handwheel

What does handwheel mean?

handwheel means "a wheel worked by hand". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in handwheel?

handwheel has 2 syllables: hand-wheel. The stress falls on "hand".

Is handwheel a common word?

handwheel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.