awheel
English
Etymology
a- + wheel
Adjective
awheel (not comparable)
- (dated) Riding a bicycle.
- 2009 February 16, “Keeping it Reeled In”, in Bike Snob NYC, retrieved 2012-08-26:
- Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say) …
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- travelling by a wheeled vehicle; mobile
- 1927 October 1, Johnson, “Talk of the Town”, in New Yorker:
- ... 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.
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- circling, moving in the shape of a wheel
- 1983, Poul Anderson, “The Sorrow of Odin the Goth”, in Time Patrolman (Sci-fi), Tom Doherty, →ISBN:
- Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.
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