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Wheeling

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Wheel·ing  (hwlng, w-)
A city of northwest West Virginia in the Panhandle on the Ohio River southwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Settled in 1769, it was an important trading post on the Cumberland Road until the 1850s. Wheeling was the state capital from 1863 to 1870 and from 1875 to 1885. Population: 30,300.
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Noun1.Wheeling - a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river
Mountain State, West Virginia, WV - a state in east central United States
2.Wheelingwheeling - propelling something on wheels      
rolling
actuation, propulsion - the act of propelling
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wheeling [ˈwiːlɪŋ] n wheeling and dealing (col) → chanchullos mpl
wheeling [ˈwiːlɪŋ] n wheeling and dealing (pej) → manigances fpl, magouilles fpl
wheeling [ˈwiːlɪŋ] wheel n wheeling and dealing (pej) → Geschäftemacherei f
wheeling [ˈwiːlɪŋ] n wheeling and dealing → maneggi mpl


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A CANDIDATE canvassing his district met a Nurse wheeling a Baby in a carriage, and, stooping, imprinted a kiss upon the Baby's clammy muzzle.
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The baby's nurse had been wheeling him in the sunshine on the walk before the house when a closed taxicab drew up at the corner of the street.
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The four railways from Philadelphia and Washington, Harrisburg and Wheeling, which converge at Baltimore, whirled away the heterogeneous population to the four corners of the United States, and the city subsided into comparative tranquility.
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