training wheel
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English
Etymology
A training wheel (sense 3, foreground) on a bicycle.
From training (“relating to the moving of a firearm laterally so that it points in a different direction; relating to imparting and acquiring skills”) + wheel.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹeɪnɪŋ wiːl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtreɪnɪŋ ˌ(h)wil/
- Hyphenation: train‧ing wheel
Noun
training wheel (plural training wheels)
- (military, historical) A wheel forming part of the machinery of a cannon or a similar firearm which is turned to train or aim the weapon at a target.
- (rail transport, archaic) Synonym of trailing wheel (“on a steam locomotive, an unpowered wheel or axle located behind the driving wheels”)
- (chiefly Canada, US and in the plural, cycling) One of a pair of small wheels, each attached to one side of a bicycle's rear wheel to provide support for new riders.
- Synonyms: stabiliser, stabilizer
Derived terms
- training wheels (“anything designed to make something easier for a novice”)
Translations
wheel forming part of the machinery of a cannon or a similar firearm which is turned to train or aim the weapon at a target
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synonym of trailing wheel — see trailing wheel
one of a pair of small wheels, each attached to one side of a bicycle’s rear wheel to provide support for new riders — see also stabilizer
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References
- ^ “training wheel, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “training wheel, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “training wheels, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
training wheels on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
