Awheel

//əˈwiːl// adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g. wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Riding a bicycle. dated, not-comparable

    "Before the war, I used often to put my "bike" on the 12.20 p.m. (Saturdays only) and cover quite a lot of ground a-wheel before returning by another "Saturdays only" train leaving Moniaive about 10 p.m."

  2. 2
    Travelling by a wheeled vehicle. dated, not-comparable

    "[…] an observer at large who chanced to be at the corner of Fourteenth Street and Seventh Avenue late one night when the traffic signals brought to a halt the few taxis that were awheel then."

  3. 3
    Circling; moving in the shape of a wheel. not-comparable, poetic

    "Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead."

Synonyms

All synonyms
moving

Example

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"Before the war, I used often to put my "bike" on the 12.20 p.m. (Saturdays only) and cover quite a lot of ground a-wheel before returning by another "Saturdays only" train leaving Moniaive about 10 p.m."

Etymology

From a- + wheel.

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