Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Worn by the action of moving wheels.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Worn by the action of wheels.

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Examples

  • Across it, the lane was no more than a grassy track, two wheel-worn ruts, winding away to where the trees grew thick again.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • Across it, the lane was no more than a grassy track, two wheel-worn ruts, winding away to where the trees grew thick again.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • Across it, the lane was no more than a grassy track, two wheel-worn ruts, winding away to where the trees grew thick again.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • That scarce shall ye see the houses, and no whit the wheel-worn way

    Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Various

  • The road is macadamized with white granite, and after one of those tremendous downpourings that occur every hour or so the wheel-worn depressions on either side become narrow streams, divided by the white central ridge.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • It had the help of three others in its generous effort, and the levee itself made a gallant pretence of being crowded with freight, and succeeded in displaying several saturated piles of barrels and agricultural implements on the irregular pavement whose wheel-worn stones, in long stretches, were sunken out of sight in their parent mud.

    Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

  • It had the help of three others in its generous effort, and the levee itself made a gallant pretence of being crowded with freight, and succeeded in displaying several saturated piles of barrels and agricultural implements on the irregular pavement whose wheel-worn stones, in long stretches, were sunken out of sight in their parent mud.

    Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

  • That scarce shall ye see the houses, and no whit the wheel-worn way

    The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

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