wire-wheel

English

Noun

wire-wheel (plural wire-wheels)

1. Alternative spelling of wire wheel.

Verb

wire-wheel (third-person singular simple present wire-wheels, present participle wire-wheeling, simple past and past participle wire-wheeled)

2. (transitive) To clean (something, especially a rusty workpiece) with a wire wheel.

   They usually wire-wheel rusty stock when prepping it for fabrication.