Meaning of awheel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Riding a bicycle.
   dated, not-comparable
2. Travelling by a wheeled vehicle.
   dated, not-comparable
3. Circling; moving in the shape of a wheel.
   not-comparable, poetic

Examples

“Before the war, I used often to put my "bike" on the 12.20 p.m. (Saturdays only) and cover quite a lot of ground a-wheel before returning by another "Saturdays only" train leaving Moniaive about 10 p.m.”

“Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say)”

“[…] 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.”

“Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.”

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