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Definition of wheeler
1 : one that wheels
2 : a draft animal (such as a horse) pulling in the position nearest the front wheels of a wagon
3 : something (such as a vehicle or ship) that has wheels —used especially in combination a side-wheeler 18-wheelers
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Shipping Corridors Driving down many interstate highways, particularly at night, comes with a familiar sight: a cavalcade of eighteen-wheelers pulling food and goods across the country.
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The poor purser stands his ground as the line of four-wheelers and humans tries to change course and move around him.
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The man who gave Einstein a ride on his two-wheeler was none other than Beachwood Mayor Merle Gorden.
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The country also has 200 million electric two-wheelers, 3 million to 4 million low-speed electric vehicles, and more than 300,000 electric buses, none of which were counted in the IEA’s official EV numbers.
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The famous photograph of Einstein atop his two-wheeler was taken that February.
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John Richard Simplot was a real wheeler-dealer, one of the last of the old-school American entrepreneurs.
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A St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputy on a four-wheeler found her decomposing body seven days later along Interstate 12 west of Louisiana 21.
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On the other side, trucks with multiple fishing rods lashed to their grills and S.U.V.s pulling fifth-wheelers rumbled through the sand.
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First Known Use of wheeler
1683
Wheeler
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Joseph 1836–1906 American general
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William Almon 1819–1887 American politician; vice president of the U.S. (1877–81)
WHEELER Defined for English Language Learners
wheeler
playDefinition of wheeler for English Language Learners
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: a vehicle that has a specified number of wheels
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