Definition of "steering wheel" []

• A wheel that controls steering, as on a boat or in an automotive vehicle. (noun)

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• "Darryl Miller of Sunnyvale claims that a young woman in extremely low-cut jeans ripped the directional lever off the steering wheel of his BMW."
• "I took my left hand from the steering wheel to point out a flock of egrets flying just outside the driver's-side window and the Cadillac veered off the road."
• "A year and a half later, on February 28, 2005, Banna conducted a suicide bombing in Hilla, Iraq, that killed 132 people; his fingerprints were found on the severed hand chained to the steering wheel of his bomb-filled truck."