idle wheel

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   a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it

   Synonymsidle pulleyidler pulley

   Broaderpulley

Questions about idle wheel

What does idle wheel mean?

idle wheel means "a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it".

What is another word for idle wheel?

Close synonyms include idle pulley, idler pulley. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is idle wheel a common word?

idle wheel 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.