Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having wheels or a wheel. Often used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with a wheel or wheels, or with any rotating disk, rosette, or the like, as a spur of the modern type.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wheel . - adjective Having
wheels . - adjective in combination Having the specified number or type of wheels.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having wheels; often used in combination
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Examples
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Just then, they broke in to show Ledger's body being wheeled from the apartment building.
January 2008 2008
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Just then, they broke in to show Ledger's body being wheeled from the apartment building.
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The most obvious advantage of magnetic levitation is the absence of friction that would normally be present in wheeled vehicles.
A ride on the Shanghai maglev train « Skulls in the Stars 2007
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The Wizards celebrated the selection of Arenas and Jamison by halting practice as owner Abe Pollin wheeled a huge cake onto the court.
USATODAY.com - All-Star backups picked; some names left off 2005
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When the leaves were done, many barrowloads of chips were wheeled from the wood to the shed, and another dollar earned.
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The horseman gave a cry of astonishment and pleasure, and without a word wheeled his horse and galloped past back at headlong speed toward the castle.
The Boy Knight 1867
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Rufinus passed along the ranks, and disguised, with studied courtesy, his innate haughtiness, the wings insensibly wheeled from the right and left, and enclosed the devoted victim within the circle of their arms.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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One lordly stag wheeled with antlers high, gazed at our flight, and vanished, leaving us in that dreadful stillness, and a cold eerie wind whined and sighed over us.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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The sword wheeled and fell, and lo! the shield of the Saracen was severed in two.
The Brethren Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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But often, we mistakenly insist on calling the wheeled vehicle itself the only real piece of "technology" in that system.
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