WHEELER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wheeler mean? 

• WHEELER (noun)
  The noun WHEELER has 5 senses:

1. Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976)

2. someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels

3. the man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling

4. a person who rides a bicycle

5. a draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle

  Familiarity information: WHEELER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHEELER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Sir Mortimer Wheeler; Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler; Wheeler

Instance hypernyms:

archaeologist; archeologist (an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

wheeler; wheelwright

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

wright (someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

marcher; parader (walks with regular or stately step)

Derivation:

wheel (change directions as if revolving on a pivot)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A person who rides a bicycle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bicycler; bicyclist; biker; cyclist; wheeler

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

pedaler; pedaller (a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle))

Instance hyponyms:

Bernard Hinault; Hinault (French racing cyclist who won the Tour de France five times (born in 1954))

Eddy Merckx; Merckx (Belgian racing cyclist who won the Tour de France five times (born in 1945))

Derivation:

wheel (ride a bicycle)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

wheel horse; wheeler

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

draft horse; draught horse; dray horse (horse adapted for drawing heavy loads)

 Context examples 

Charlie rode the leader and I the wheeler.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)

François was stern, demanding instant obedience, and by virtue of his whip receiving instant obedience; while Dave, who was an experienced wheeler, nipped Buck’s hind quarters whenever he was in error.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

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)

I’ve seen a driver warm up the off-side passenger on the roof behind him every time he tried to cut his off-side wheeler.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)