whele

From Old English hwēol, from Proto-Germanic *hweulō, plural of *hwehwlą, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos.

• wheel, qweel, qwel, qwele, whel, wheyle, wele, whelle, qwell, wheylle, qweyll, hwel, wheol, wheele, ȝweol

• IPA^(key): /ʍeːl/, /ʍɛːl/

whele (plural wheles)

1. A wheel (circular object designed to aid movement by attachment to a rod as allow it to turn)
2. A device or machine that utilises the motion of a wheel to operate or the wheel in such a device (e.g. a waterwheel; a potter's wheel)
3. A wheel utilised to induce torment; a wheel as a device for inflicting torture and pain.
4. The wheel typically emblematic of change and changeableness.
5. Any circular or spherical object or path; especially in astronomy.
6. (rare) A revolving axis that a barrier depends on to move.
7. (rare) The wheel representing repetition and constancy.

• whelebarow
• whelen
• wheler
• whelwryght

• English: wheel
• Scots: quhel, quhele, quheil, quheile, wheel

• “whēl(e (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-06.

From Old English *hwele; related to Old English hwelian.

• whelle

• IPA^(key): /ˈʍɛːl(ə)/

whele (plural whelys)

1. A boil or wheal; a malignant lump or wound.
2. A tumour or ulcer.

• whelyn

• English: wheal

• “whēle (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-06.

From whele (noun).

whele

1. Alternative form of whelen (“to rotate”)