wheeler
Substantivhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigte Staaten
Someone who operates a wheel.
Substantiv
- 1
veraltetA wheelwright, a wheelmaker.
- 2
Someone who operates a wheel.
- 3
altertümlichA wheelhorse (horse near wheel of carriage).
How proud felt Pierre: In fancy’s eye, he saw the horse-ghosts a-tandem in the van; “These are but wheelers”—cried young Pierre—“the leaders are the generations.”
- 4
A vehicle having the specified number or type of wheels.
"Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."
- 5
historischA sett in a stoneway.
These wheelers are now made from the same class of rock as the rest of the pavement, […]
Herkunft
From Middle English whelere, equivalent to wheel + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 4). Piecewise doublet of cycler.
Formen
- Plural
- wheelers