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WHEELED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having wheels; often used in combination
Classified under:
Antonym:
wheelless (having no wheels or having no wheeled vehicles)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb wheel
Context examples:
I placed his arm-chair by the chimney-corner: I wheeled the table near it: I let down the curtain, and had the candles brought in ready for lighting.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I should get up, sir, to acknowledge such an honour as this visit, said he, only my limbs are rather out of sorts, and I am wheeled about.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then, in the gloom, we saw the two side-lamps of a trap light up in the stable-yard of the inn, and shortly afterwards heard the rattle of hoofs, as it wheeled out into the road and tore off at a furious pace in the direction of Chesterfield.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With a soldierly salute, he wheeled round his horse, and, galloping down the lists, disappeared amid the dense crowd of footmen and of horsemen who were streaming away from the scene of the tournament.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The servants were called in, the dining-room tables wheeled away, the lights otherwise disposed, the chairs placed in a semicircle opposite the arch. While Mr. Rochester and the other gentlemen directed these alterations, the ladies were running up and down stairs ringing for their maids.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He took that off, too, when it was done with; cleared the table; piled everything on the dumb-waiter; gave us our wine-glasses; and, of his own accord, wheeled the dumb-waiter into the pantry.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And spreading out her dress, she chasseed across the room till, having reached Mr. Rochester, she wheeled lightly round before him on tip-toe, then dropped on one knee at his feet, exclaiming—"Monsieur, je vous remercie mille fois de votre bonte;" then rising, she added, "C'est comme cela que maman faisait, n'est-ce pas, monsieur?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The coach was clear of passengers by that time, the luggage was very soon cleared out, the horses had been taken out before the luggage, and now the coach itself was wheeled and backed off by some hostlers, out of the way.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Dear me! said Mr. Omer, when a man is drawing on to a time of life, where the two ends of life meet; when he finds himself, however hearty he is, being wheeled about for the second time, in a speeches of go-cart; he should be over-rejoiced to do a kindness if he can.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
