driving wheel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: driving wheel	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for driving wheel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
driving wheel n a wheel that drives a motor vehicle (transforms torque into a tractive force)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Driving \Driv"ing\, a. 1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm. 2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft. {Driving axle}, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. {Driving box} (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving axle. See Illust. of {Locomotive}. {Driving note} (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through. {Driving spring}, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. [Eng.] --Weale. {Driving wheel} (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called also, simply, driver. See Illust. of {Locomotive}.