Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small, all-terrain motor vehicle seating one person and having four wheels with large tires.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A carriage with four wheels; especially, a four-wheeled cab.
Wiktionary
- n. A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart.
- n. Any vehicle with four wheels.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq., colloq., colloq. A vehicle having four wheels a hackney carriage with four weels.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a hackney carriage with four wheels
Examples
“Yes | No | Report from jlfreeborn wrote 1 year 1 week ago leg power, wishin i had a four-wheeler”
How do YOU get your deer out of the woods to the truck? I use a Cabelas game hauler.
“He led a cheer and then hitched a ride with the Phillie Fanatic, riding on the back of the furry green mascot's four-wheeler to get to the ballpark. ...”
The Huffington Post: Philadelpha Phillies Take Game 2, Even NLCS at 1-1
“The great thing about family triathlons is that it doesn't matter whether they swim one lap or two, use a two-wheeler or four-wheeler.”
USA Today: Family Fitness Challenge: Bring the outdoors into play
“The area is accessible only by floatplane, snowmobile or four-wheeler.”
“Exploring the Camargue, the south of France's rugged and surprisingly remote region of grassy marshland, pristine coastline and exotic wildlife, can be done on horseback or on foot, on mountain bike or four-wheeler, by barge, kayak or canoe.”
“I found that deer on my four-wheeler on the east side of the property where I hunt," said Reinke in his first statement to the media.”
“It was a four-wheeler that took out Hasil Adkins in Boone County, West Virginia.”
“Guess I'm going to have to go with a four-wheeler.”
“A state police investigation revealed the brothers were driving aboard a Can-Am Commander 1000 UTV, a high-end, four-wheeler with a powerful V-twin engine, when it struck a tree and flipped over on the road.”
USA Today: New York groom dies in ATV accident on wedding night
“On the show, Paisley says she'd rather hunt and ride a four-wheeler than do pageants.”
Lists
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Interesting words
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Just Carriages
A list of types or styles of horse-drawn carriages. Other Wordniks have made similar and more complete lists. Good for them. I prefer my own list, where you will find numerous terms not listed else...
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dailyword This type of carriage was used a lot in Holmes's time. Jul 5, 2012