flat wheel
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"Can't you run on a flat wheel?" asked Ralph anxiously.
From The Border Boys Across the Frontier by John Henry Goldfrap
The third-class car, joggling along on a flat wheel, was full of the smell of sweat and sour wine.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
Moreover the gout in his bad foot troubled him more and more, and he ceased to get much satisfaction from rolling around on a "flat wheel" and scaring people with his tracks.
From Bears I Have Met—and Others by Allen Kelly
An occasional Madison Avenue car could be heard ringing along the cold rails, or rhythmically bounding down hill on a flat wheel.
From The Happiest Time of Their Lives by Alice Duer Miller
If they are markedly short, the result will be a monotonous, choppy, jolting effect, like a flat wheel on a street-car.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer
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