Meaning of four-wheeler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart .
2. A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
3. Any vehicle with four wheels.

Equivalents

Examples

“The local doctor was often seen passing by in a four-wheeler on his way to a house call⟳.”

“At length we saw⟳ a four-wheeler drive⟳ up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.”

“In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.”

“"Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send⟳ the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."”

“The ranchhands use⟳ four-wheelers to move⟳ about the ranch, ferrying supplies and patrolling distant fields and pastures.”

“Reid pressured the teen to ride⟳ with him on the four-wheeler, but the teen said no "several times" because he saw⟳ Reid drinking liquor beforehand, and the ATV had bad brakes, documents state.”

“Many of the earliest locomotives in the 1830s were four-wheelers; larger models with more axles would come⟳ later.”

“The cars, of which there were five, were four-wheelers seating 32, and had wrought-iron railings round the end⟳ platforms.”

CEFR level