There are at present in store some sixty thousand of these felloes and an equal number of naves, with their due complement of spokes.
Strakes are sections of wagon tire, equal in number to the felloes of the wheel.
Footnote 13: Strakes are sections of wagon tire, equal in number to the felloes of a wheel.
Each truck on the passenger cars is provided with two large wheels, exactly like those on freight cars, and these wheels have wooden felloes and spokes.
The same crude bullock carts carry produce to Delhi, with wheels that have felloes a foot thick and only four spokes.
Of these the felloes would tend to wear soonest, and a double set would be applied to the spokes, as was the case until recently in the ox-carts of the Pampas, or barcos de tierra, as they were called by the natives.
In this way," he says, "the scythes had a firm hold, and could inflict more damage than if they had been applied to the wheels or felloes and revolved with them.
Instead of five, six, or seven felloes to each wheel, there are only two, of oak or hickory wood, bent to the shape by steam.
It fulfills every requisite for axles; is made into felloes for heavy wagons; and is considered the best obtainable wood for the tongues of heavy logging wheels and stone wagons.
It is made into singletrees and ax and hammer handles in Michigan, wagon felloes in Texas and other parts of the Southwest; levers and other parts of agricultural implements in various localities.
The readiness with which the wood splits calls for extraordinary care in boring it, and manyfelloes are spoiled in finishing them to receive the tenoned ends of spokes.
For that reason, Osage wagon felloes will not stand rocky roads.
Some wagon makers insist that mesquite is in the same class with Osage orange for wagon felloes in hot, dry regions; but it does not appear that much of it is so used.
The felloes were made six inches thick, and were strongly doweled together with seasoned hardwood pins; the linch pin was of hickory or ash; the thills were wood; in fact all of it was wood.
He shoved his arm slowly forward so that it lay extended along the ground the barrel of the pistol resting on the felloes of the wheel.
Calumet chuckled grimly as, with his head slightly above the edge of the gully and concealed behind the felloes of the wagon wheel, he made an examination of the rocks beyond the wagon.
I did it because they should take noe advantage against me, being lardg tonged felloes as they are.
Elizabeth, went ashore, not reproving those felloesfor it.
These felloes abovsaid in generall demanded in mutenose sort the fift parte of the merchandiz taken in the friggot, as also for other matters taken before, aledging Capt.
Then fit a waggon wheel on the top of it, lash an upright pin to one of the felloes (do not spoil a good wheel by boring holes in it).
It is impossible to measure the relative circumference of the felloes and the inner side of the band without an instrument similar to the perambulator; i.
We had at length been able to turn westward, keeping the river trees in view when, the rain continuing, we began to experience the effects of moisture on the felloes of the wheels.
On my return to the camp I examined the drays, and found that the hot weather had had a tremendous effect on the wheels; the felloes had shrunk greatly, and the tyres of all were loose.
The spokes had shrunk to such a degree that they did not hold in the felloes and axles by more than two or three 10ths of an inch.
Wheels are also made by a plank with rounded ends, and two felloes fitted on to complete the circle.
The wheels had each eight brazen spokes, the felloes were of gold secured with brazen tyres all round, admirable to the sight.
Instead of five, six, or seven felloes to each wheel, there are only two, of oak or of hickory wood, bent to the shape by steam.
The wheels have wooden rims, but over the joints of the felloes are small plates of iron about 10 in.
The six inner felloes do not meet as in modern wheels, but are spliced one over the other, with an overlap of 3 in.
The naves were of elm, the spokes of oak, and the rims or felloes of ash or beech.
These irons may be bolted to the felloes of the wheels or not, or to the felloes of one wheel only.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "felloes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
