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Wheeler   /wˈilər/  /hwˈilər/   Listen
noun
Wheeler  n.  
1.
One who wheels, or turns.
2.
A maker of wheels; a wheelwright. (Obs.)
3.
A wheel horse. See under Wheel.
4.
(Naut.) A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.
5.
A worker on sewed muslin. (Eng.)
6.
(Zool.) The European goatsucker. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Wheeler" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the working of the vast and wonderful Post Office Department? The officials of this department have, as in the case of all other Departments covered in this series, extended their courtesy to Dr. Rolt-Wheeler to enable him to tell us about one of the most interesting forms of Uncle Sam's ...
— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
... and the colour of the horse in the one which Mr. Joshua chose, and the driver's face, and Mr. Joshua leaning out of the window and shouting directions. She remembered also the mist on the glass window of the four-wheeler, and the foggy houses, detached and semi-detached, looming behind their roadway walls and naked fences of privet; the clapping sound of the horse, trotting with one loose shoe; Aunt Hannah's clutch at ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Captain Wheeler, U.S. Engineers, estimated the heat extracted annually from the Comstock by means of the water pumped out and cold air forced in, as equal to that generated by the combustion of 55,560 tons of anthracite coal or 97,700 cords of wood. Observations were then given upon temperature at ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 • Various
... went off with the barrel in a four-wheeler, very trembling like,' replied Bill. 'I don't believe he's a gentleman ...
— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... ballots, the Convention finally nominated Gov. R.B. Hayes, of Ohio, as a compromise candidate. This result was brought about through a union of the combined opposition to Mr. Blaine. Hon. Wm. A. Wheeler, of New York, was nominated for Vice-President and the work ...
— The Facts of Reconstruction • John R. Lynch


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