| 释义 |
ˈfour-wheeled, a.
[f. four a. + wheel n. + -ed2.]
Having or running upon four wheels.
1622in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) II. 327 One [proclamation] against four-wheeled carts or waggons, that with their weight mar and tear the highways. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 286 Scarce twenty four-wheel'd cars, compact and strong, The massy load could bear. 1865Trollope Belton Est. i. 14 The four-wheeled carriage..came to the door.
transf.1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 230 She might pull up some distance short of the castle, and leave the ass at a cottage before joining her four-wheeled friends. |