FOUR-WHEELER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does four-wheeler mean? 

• FOUR-WHEELER (noun)
  The noun FOUR-WHEELER has 1 sense:

1. a hackney carriage with four wheels

  Familiarity information: FOUR-WHEELER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOUR-WHEELER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hackney carriage with four wheels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("four-wheeler" is a kind of...):

hackney; hackney carriage; hackney coach (a carriage for hire)

 Context examples 

If you will call a four-wheeler, Hopkins, we shall be ready to start for Forest Row in a quarter of an hour.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My client is outside in a four-wheeler.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He struck his stick sharply upon the ground, on which a cabman, his whip in his hand, sauntered over from a four-wheeler which stood on the far side of the street.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A four-wheeler was at the door at eleven, and in it we drove to a spot at the other side of Hammersmith Bridge.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Now, Mr. McFarlane, two of my constables are at the door, and there is a four-wheeler waiting.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A four-wheeler was brought, and we all three drove back in it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)