bull wheel

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Noun[edit]

bull wheel (plural bull wheels)

  1. A type of large windlass used in drilling.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 237:
      Outside a big wooden bull wheel was tilted against the wall.
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