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WHEELER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle
Synonyms:
wheel horse; wheeler
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wheeler" is a kind of...):
draft horse; draught horse; dray horse (horse adapted for drawing heavy loads)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who rides a bicycle
Synonyms:
bicycler; bicyclist; biker; cyclist; wheeler
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wheeler" is a kind of...):
pedaler; pedaller (a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle))
Instance hyponyms:
Bernard Hinault; Hinault (French racing cyclist who won the Tour de France five times (born in 1954))
Eddy Merckx; Merckx (Belgian racing cyclist who won the Tour de France five times (born in 1945))
Derivation:
wheel (ride a bicycle)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("wheeler" is a kind of...):
marcher; parader (walks with regular or stately step)
Derivation:
wheel (change directions as if revolving on a pivot)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels
Synonyms:
wheeler; wheelwright
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("wheeler" is a kind of...):
wright (someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976)
Synonyms:
Sir Mortimer Wheeler; Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler; Wheeler
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
archaeologist; archeologist (an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture)
Context examples:
Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the street.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ere they returned to camp he knew enough to stop at “ho,” to go ahead at “mush,” to swing wide on the bends, and to keep clear of the wheeler when the loaded sled shot downhill at their heels.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
“Now, Mr. McFarlane, two of my constables are at the door, and there is a four-wheeler waiting.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A four-wheeler was brought, and we all three drove back in it.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our leader’s head came abreast of the off hind wheel, then of the off front one—then for a hundred yards we did not gain an inch, and then with a spurt the bay leader was neck to neck with the black wheeler, and our fore wheel within an inch of their hind one.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one there!
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dave was wheeler or sled dog, pulling in front of him was Buck, then came Sol-leks; the rest of the team was strung out ahead, single file, to the leader, which position was filled by Spitz.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I will order a four-wheeler.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As far as the church door he brought her, and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a four-wheeler and out at the other.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
