wheeled
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wheel/wiːl/
▶noun
- 1 a circular object that revolves on an axle, fixed below a vehicle to enable it to move over the ground or forming part of a machine.
- 2 something resembling a wheel or having a wheel as its essential part.
■ a steering wheel.
■ a device with a revolving disc or drum used in various games of chance.
■ a cheese made in the form of a shallow disc.
- 3 (wheels) informal a car.
- 4 an instance of wheeling; a turn or rotation.
- 5 a set of short lines concluding the stanza of a poem.
- 1 push or pull (a vehicle with wheels).
■ carry in or on a vehicle with wheels.
■ (wheel something in/on/out) informal produce something that is unimpressive because it has been frequently seen or heard before.
- 2 fly or turn in a wide circle or curve.
■ turn round quickly to face another way.
– phrases
on wheels
the wheel of Fortune the wheel which the deity Fortune is fabled to turn as a symbol of random luck or change.
wheels within wheels secret or indirect influences affecting a complex situation.
on wheels
- 1 travelling by car or cycle.
- 2 Brit. informal smoothly.
the wheel of Fortune the wheel which the deity Fortune is fabled to turn as a symbol of random luck or change.
wheels within wheels secret or indirect influences affecting a complex situation.
– derivatives
wheeled adjective,
wheelless adjective.
wheeled adjective,
wheelless adjective.
– origin OE hwēol (n.), of Gmc origin.
'wheeled' also found in these Oxford entries:
baby walker
- barouche
- barrow
- bathing machine
- breaking cart
- cabriolet
- caleche
- caltrop
- career
- cargo
- carriage
- carry
- cart
- charge
- chariot
- chassis
- clarence
- coupé
- curricle
- dog cart
- dray
- droshky
- fiacre
- fifth wheel
- gig
- grader
- growler
- gun carriage
- gurney
- hansom
- high gear
- jaunting car
- jinker
- landau
- land yacht
- low gear
- microscooter
- motorcycle
- odometer
- phaeton
- pram
- rickshaw
- roll
- sand yacht
- scooter
- shopper
- skate
- sulky
- surrey
- tarantass

