The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Wheel-base – Wade

Wheel-base

The measure of the distance between the centres of the back and front wheels.

Wheel-track

or gauge. The measure of the distance between the paths of the front wheels.

Walton-on-Thames

till 1855; Richmond Park; Waverley; Peperharrow Park; Virginia Water.

SUSSEX.-Windmill Hill, Hurstmonceaux; formerly a large colony in Sowden's Wood, Brede; since removed half a mile north to Alder. Shaw; Parham Park; Eridge Park, Tunbridge Wells.

Warwickshire

- Warwick Castle; Coombe Abbey; Ragley Park, near Alcester.

Westmorland

- Dalham Tower; Rydal Lake; Ingmire Hall.

Wiltshire

Bowood, near Melksham; Longleat, near Bath; Longford Park, near Salisbury.

Wedging

Same as

Worry

The fight that ensues when hounds catch their otter. "SPRAINTS" and "COKE."

STAG.

L. C. R. CAMERON.

Antler. Originally the first branch of a deer's horns; now used for any of the branches or tines, and even for the whole growth of horn. [See BROW, BAY, and TRAY.]

Worms

iv. 336

Wounds

iv. 331 Veterinary Work (Horses), iv. 316-331 Broken Knees, iv. 317-319 Bronchitis, iv. 328 Capped hock," iv. 327

Wadan

See Sheep, Barbary

Wade

C. W., ii. 239, 240 i.

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