Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. A character of wheel-like
form, supposed to symbolize the sun: it has many varieties,
among others the wheel-cross, and exhibits four, five, or more
arms or spokes radiating from a circle, every arm terminating in
a crescent. - n. In cotton manufacturing, one of the gears or
wheels of the ‘differential’ or ‘equating’ or ‘jack-in-a-box’
motion of a roving-machine, about the orbit of which other gears
rotate. Also called a stud-wheel. “Around it the flames shone
through the embedded glass that made up the sun-wheel, an orange
light that pulsed over the hooded figures to the wall beyond,
illuminating the axe blades and the empty helmets in a
flickering orange glow.” “Inlaid on the table was a twelve-
spoked sun-wheel, continuing the symmetry of the room to a
carved symbol obscured in shadow at the very apex of the
design.” “Her nightstand was a rattan cabinet draped with a fall
of crimson silk, with a statue of Brigid holding the sun-wheel
placed at what he suspected was a p