[f. WHEEL sb. + BAND sb.2]
† 1. The tire of a wheel. Obs.
1392–3. Earl Derby’s Exp. (Camden), 202. Item pro j wheleband, j scho pro curru, et emendacione currus, v gr.
1557. Richmond Wills (Surtees), 93. In the hay housse … iiij. qwele bannes.
1598. Chapman, Iliad, VII. R 3 b [XI. 466]. The chariote tree was dround in bloode, and th’ arches by the seat Disperpled from the horses houes, and from the wheelbandes beate.
2. A band or strap that goes round a wheel, as the driving band of a spinning-wheel. dial.
a. 1656. Roxb. Ball. (1881), IV. 101. It is a well twined Wheelband.
1693. C. Mather, Wond. Invis. World (1862), 159. One Susanna Sheldon … had her hands Unaccountably ty’d together with a Wheel-band.
1705. Phil. Trans., XXV. 2166. To prevent the Recipients being drawn from its place by the motion and tug or the Wheel-band.
