four-wheeler
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -iːlə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]four-wheeler (plural four-wheelers)
- A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart [from 19th c.].
- 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 22, in Dracula:
- At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
- 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In Quest of a Solution”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 41:
- In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.
- 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter:
- "Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."
- A four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle; a quad bike.
- 2023 November 29, “Former officer resigns after ATV crash in Greenwood leads to endangering the welfare of a minor charge”, in 5NEWS:
- Reid pressured the teen to ride with him on the four-wheeler, but the teen said no "several times" because he saw Reid drinking liquor beforehand, and the ATV had bad brakes, documents state.
- Any vehicle with four wheels.
Translations
[edit]vehicle with four wheels
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