spur wheel

1. 1.

   gear wheels that mesh in the same plane

   Synonymsspur gear

   Broadergear

Questions about spur wheel

What does spur wheel mean?

spur wheel means "gear wheels that mesh in the same plane".

What is another word for spur wheel?

Close synonyms include spur gear. 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 spur wheel a common word?

spur 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.