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▪ I. ˈfour-wheel, n.
A four-wheeled carriage.
1848Clough Bothie i. 45 In the four wheel they drove to the place of the clansmen's meeting. 1859Hughes Scouring W. Horse vi. 119, I would go behind in the four-wheel.
▪ II. ˈfour-wheel, a.
1. Of a horse-drawn or motor vehicle: = four-wheeled a.
1740W. Ellis Mod. Husb. i. 131 Four-wheel Carriages..go easier, when the Weight..is laid on the hinder Wheels. 1777P. Thicknesse Year's Journey I. iii. 16, I have sold my four-wheel post-chaise. 1820J. S. Fry Ess. Constr. Wheel-Carriages vi. 75 A four-wheel Coach, as at present constructed. 1902P. N. Hasluck Automobile xviii. 441 The Decauville voiturette is the first of the four-wheel voiturettes to be described.
2. Of the braking or driving system of a motor vehicle: operating on all the four wheels.
1924Nation 29 Oct. 461 Vast multitudes are entirely content, entirely occupied with their four-wheel brakes and their radios. 1926Encycl. Brit. I. 229 Another vehicle, of a different type, is the ‘4-wheel drive’ lorry, in which the wheels are driven independently. 1956‘N. Shute’ Beyond Black Stump ii. 60 A big four-wheel-drive truck. 1969Times 12 May 16/2 A four-wheel drive forward control tractor. |