单词 | high-wheeled |
释义 | > as lemmashigh-wheeled high-wheeled adj. ΚΠ 1720 A. Hill Gideon ii. 88 They carry their Wives and Children along with them in huge high-wheel'd cover'd Carts. 1841 E. Rigby Resid. Shores Baltic II. xv. 33 Our neighbours..are now seen driving about..in their high-wheeled carriages. 1877 A. Sewell Black Beauty iii. xxxvii. 185 At ten o'clock we started, in a light high-wheeled gig, which ran so easily, that after the four-wheeled cab, it seemed like nothing. 1967 Amer. Scholar 37 132/2 I sometimes sat beside Herbert Alexander on the driver's seat of his high-wheeled wagon, looking out over the backs and heads of the horses. 2012 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 6 Oct. 4 One struggles to imagine a male lawmaker being chided to behave in a gentlemanly fashion... The complaint belongs to the era of handlebar moustaches and high-wheeled bikes. < as lemmas |
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