Noun: wheeler
| Singular | wheeler |
| Plural | wheelers |
Sample Sentences
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How proud felt Pierre: In fancy’s eye, he saw the horse-ghosts a-tandem in the van; “These are but wheelers”—cried young Pierre—“the leaders are the generations.” [1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:]
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"Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once." [1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Greek Interpreter:]
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These wheelers are now made from the same class of rock as the rest of the pavement, […] [1894, Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society, page 109:]
Nouns inflected like wheeler
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English whelere, equivalent to wheel + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 4). Piecewise doublet of cycler. See: Middle English Nouns '
whelere'.