Four-wheeler

Quick meaning: Four-wheeler is a noun meaning A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart .

Meaning

A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart .

More Meanings

1. A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
2. Any vehicle with four wheels.

Example Sentences

The local doctor was often seen passing by in a four-wheeler on his way to a house call.

"Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."

Many of the earliest locomotives in the 1830s were four-wheelers; larger models with more axles would come later.

The ranchhands use four-wheelers to move about the ranch, ferrying supplies and patrolling distant fields and pastures.

Word Forms

• four-wheelers

Synonyms for four-wheeler

Depending on context, synonyms include quad.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hack, herdic, hansom, wheel-horse, haycart, wheelhorse.

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