wheelband

From wheel +‎ band.

wheelband (plural wheelbands)

1. (dated) The tyre of a wheel.
   • 1773, Thomas Wilson, The Pitman's Pay (poem):

     Yor high-flown cheps oft fyel and brick,
     But we hev a'ways yet been yable
     Te keep the wheelband i' the nick
     Though oft wi' but a bareish tyeble.

• “wheelband”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.