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Idle wheel   /ˈaɪdəl wil/   Listen
Idle wheel

noun
1.
A pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it.  Synonyms: idle pulley, idler pulley.






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"Idle wheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... the snow. I had often walked that way on Sundays, and knew that the solitary roof showing through bare branches near the bottom of the hill was that of Frome's saw-mill. It looked exanimate enough, with its idle wheel looming above the black stream dashed with yellow-white spume, and its cluster of sheds sagging under their white load. Frome did not even turn his head as we drove by, and still in silence we began to mount the next slope. About a mile farther, on a road I had never travelled, we came to an orchard ...
— Ethan Frome • Edith Wharton



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