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noun

wheel ( def 9 ).

a wheel-like gambling device that is rotated or spun to determine the winner of certain prizes.

Origin:
1755–65

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wheel of fortune

—n
	Often shortened to: wheel (in mythology and literature) a revolving device spun by a deity of fate selecting random changes in the affairs of man

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"Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably."

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