Wagon Tire (Noun)
Meaning
A metal hoop forming the tread of a wheel.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The wagon tire on the wooden cart creaked loudly as it hit a bump in the road.
- Inspectors were surprised to find a large crack in the metal wagon tire of the horse-drawn carriage.
- It took great effort for the blacksmith to bend and shape the red-hot iron into a wagon tire.
- At the pioneer museum, an exhibit showed the original wooden wheels and iron wagon tires of an old covered wagon.
- Craftsmen would rivet a sturdy metal wagon tire onto a hub of a horse-drawn cart wheel.