Fellies

But the fellies depend on the spokes, though they wholly roll upon the earth. ❋ Mary Kate Hurley (2007)

As the spokes stick, one end in the felly, and the other in the nave, and the spoke is midward, equally near to both, though one end be fixed in the nave and the other in the felly; so are the middle class of men in the middle of the spokes, and the better nearer to the nave, and the most numerous class nearer to the fellies. ❋ Mary Kate Hurley (2007)

The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond of ornamenting cathedrals. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Barbarians found it impossible to resist; the Greek foot-soldiers alone had brazen armour, all the rest had cutlasses on the end of poles, scythes taken from the farms, or swords manufactured out of the fellies of wheels; the soft blades were twisted by a blow, and while they were engaged in straightening them under their heels, the Carthaginians massacred them right and left at their ease. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Some were the indescribable sort of caleche used here; and in the middle of these was a very gay pea-green and silver chariot, evidently built in Europe, very light, with silver ornaments, silver fellies to the wheels, silver where any kind of metal could be used, and beautiful embossed silver plates on the harness of the mules. ❋ Maria Graham (N/A)

Now cannebalism is a sin; it ud be a sin capital for these fellies to ate us; an ', av coorse, it follies that it ud be a sin in me to timpt um to do it. ❋ Various (N/A)

Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, 348 ❋ Unknown (1914)

Which its smooth fellies made, is now deserted: 105 ❋ Unknown (1909)

Stout bands of burnished bronze reinforced the hubs, otherwise very light; the spokes were sections of ivory tusks, set in with the natural curve outward to perfect the dishing, considered important then as now; bronze tires held the fellies, which were of shining ebony. ❋ Unknown (1901)

"Some of us fellies want to go down to Ten Mile -- the liquor's out," said the man, trying to get a fair sight of the strange engineman. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)

Wagon wheels, tireless, their fellies falling apart, lay on the ground, and other ruins of great wagons, dried and disjointed now. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

The work he had commenced, a chaos of naves, spokes, fellies, tires, and a variety of tools, lay in a heap beside him, but he was sleeping the sleep of the just. ❋ Max Simon Nordau (1886)

But aw fancy shoo'll ha 'to dee an owd maid, for its nooan her sooarts' at fellies wants. ❋ John Hartley (1877)

Th 'wimmin didn't know whether to be pleased wi' th 'new taps or mad abaat th' loss o'th 'pump, an' soa they sed nowt until ther fellies coom back. ❋ John Hartley (1877)

But the moment Clare saw how the bull's horns were mixed up with the spokes and fellies of the wheel, a glad suspicion flashed across him: that was old Nimrod's way! could it be Nimrod himself? ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

The outer end of the spokes is received into the deep mortise of the wooden fellies, and the structure appears to be complete. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

For a while naught could be seen for the white foam, until the sheriff his legs and body were borne up into the air by the wheel, his head being stuck fast between the fellies; and thus, fearful to behold, he went round and round upon the wheel. ❋ Wilhelm Meinhold (1824)