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wheeler|ˈhwiːlə(r)|
Also 4 whelere, 5–6 wheler.
[f. wheel n. and v. + -er1.]
I. Senses derived from the n.
†1. wheeler dog, ? orig. a turnspit dog; transf. a roasting-jack or similar instrument. Obs. rare.
1379Will of Carter (Comm. Crt. London), Vnum instrumentum vocatum a whelere dogge.
2. A wheelwright or wheel-maker.
1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 109 Whelers and Smythes toles. 1549MSS. Dk. Rutland (Hist. MSS. Comm.) IV. 570 A wheler to make wheles. 1666Bedloe's Narr. Popish Plot 6 A Paper with a Ball of Wild-fire,..was found in the Nave of a Wheel, in a Wheelers-yard. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 19 The Stones that..ever will be the Cause of a greater Charge of Smith's and Wheeler's Bills. 1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. 84 The wheeler's shop, always picturesque, with its tools, and its work. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 468/1 Wheelers,..the mechanics of a battery engaged in setting up the wheels of the gun-carriages. 1901Daily Chron. 8 May 11/2 Wheel⁓wrights.—Wanted 2 good wheelers.
3. A wheel-horse (see wheel n. 19) or other draught-animal in the same position; often opp. to leader (leader1 6 b).
1813P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 82 My leader took fright..but luckily I kept my wheeler in. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes xiv, Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers; and now it was rearing up in the air. 1885New Bk. Sports 171 Few things are more distressing than to see..one wheeler hanging away from the pole, and the other hugging it.
4. One who attends to the wheel in a spinning-machine.
1876Smiles Sc. Natur. iii. 47 Each spinner had three boys under him—the wheeler, the pointer, and the stripper.
5. Needlework. One who makes ‘wheels’: see wheel n. 9 a (a).
6. = wheel-bird: see wheel n. 19.
1862Johns Brit. Birds 625 Wheel-bird, or Wheeler, the Nightjar.
7. Something, as a vehicle, a boat, etc. furnished with a wheel or wheels: chiefly in compounds, as four-wheeler, sternwheeler, etc.
1886A. Watt Electro-Depos. 314 The whole bicycle fraternity, who had been accustomed to plain steel or painted wheelers.
8. ? A nail used in fixing the parts of a wheel.
1873Iron 1 Feb. 75/1 Nails..Wrought..Best Derby Countersunk Dub deep Wheelers, 3 [lbs.], 2/9.
II. Senses derived from the verb.
9. One who wheels a vehicle, or conveys something in a wheeled vehicle (esp. a wheelbarrow).
1683J. Reid Scots Gard'ner (1907) 55 With wheel-barrows; three barrows for two wheelers and one filler sometimes doth well. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 261/1 Wheeler, is him that carryeth the Clay from the Pit, to the Moulding Board foot. 1862Smiles Engineers III. iii. 24 The younger boys worked as wheelers or pickers on the bank-tops. 1884C. T. Davis Bricks, Tiles etc. (1889) 131 The wheeler gathers the stones and hard lumps of clay that have been thrown out..and wheels them to some out of the way place.
†10. One of a series of projecting stones in a battlement: see quot. Obs. rare.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 470/2 A Tower with a plain Battlement; that is, the Battlement is not made with Wheelers and Kneelers, but is streight, and even in the Walk of the Wall. Ibid. 472/1 (Terms of the Fractable on a Gable end) A Wheeler, are wrought stones that ly levell and streight, yet make outward Angles when other stones are ioyned to them.
11. Mil. The man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling.
1798Sir W. Young Instr. Armed Yeom. 13 The man on the other Flank, or Wheeler, will move round square, to Dress by the Pivot Man.
12. One who turns so as to face another way; fig. one who changes his opinion or attitude, a turncoat, a ‘weathercock’.
1836Tait's Mag. III. 40 He..is one of the most notorious wheelers in Parliament.
13. One who rides a bicycle or tricycle, a cyclist. colloq.
1886H. Baumann Londinismen 232/1 Wheeler, velocipedist. 1897Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang. 1929Newport & Market Drayton Advertiser 28 June 3/4 Shropshire wheelers. Sunday's run to Bala. 1979Guardian 8 Aug. 7/4 A posh camping shop..no shop for humble wheelers. |