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Device used at the end of the main stanzas in alliterative verse such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The 'bob' is a short, one-stress line followed by the 'wheel' - which is a quatrain rhyming a-b-a-b   e.g.

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[n] a cycle that has two wheels; moved by foot pedals
[n] a handwheel that is used for steering
[n] an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
[n] game equipment consisting of a rotating wheel with slots that is used for gambling; players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
[n] a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
[n] a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel
[v] move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"
[v] ride a bicycle
[v] change directions as of revolving on a pivot; "They wheeled their horses around and left"
[v] wheel somebody or something

See bob and wheel.

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bicycle, bicycle, bike, bike, cycle, pedal, rack, roll, roulette wheel, steering wheel, wheel around

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all-terrain bike, backpedal, balance wheel, bicycle seat, bicycle wheel, bicycle-built-for-two, bowl, buffing wheel, car wheel, cartwheel, cartwheel, chain, coaster brake, cogwheel, cycle, daisy print wheel, daisy wheel, driving wheel, emery wheel, felloe, felly, foot lever, foot pedal, game equipment, gear, gear wheel, go, go around, grinding wheel, handlebar, handwheel, helm, instrument of torture, locomote, machine, mountain bike, move, mudguard, nosewheel, off-roader, ordinary, ordinary bicycle, paddle wheel, paddlewheel, pedal, potter's wheel, push-bike, ratchet wheel, revolve, ride, rim, roller, rotate, roulette, rowel, saddle, safety bicycle, safety bike, simple machine, splashguard, sprocket, sprocket wheel, steering mechanism, steering system, tandem, tandem bicycle, toothed wheel, transport, travel, treadle, troll, trundle, velocipede, wagon wheel, water wheel, waterwheel, wheeled vehicle

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