FERRIS WHEEL


Meaning of FERRIS WHEEL in English

add. ·- an amusement device consisting of a giant power-driven steel wheel, revolvable on its stationary axle, and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars around its rim;

— so called after g. w. g. ferris, american engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the world's columbian exposition in chicago in 1893.

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