wheeledadj.
/wiːld/, U.S. /(h)wild/ 1.
a. Furnished with a wheel or wheels, or with any revolving disc; esp. of a vehicle, mounted or moving on wheels. Also in parasynthetic combinations, as two-wheeled, etc. Also frequently in wheeled chair, = wheelchair n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > [adjective] > having wheels
wheeleda1616
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [adjective]
rollinga1450
wheeling1596
wheeleda1616
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > wheelchair
wheelchaira1684
garden chair1729
Merlin chair1791
Bath-chair1823
wheeled chair1847
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [adjective] > furnished with
wheeled1855
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xv. 75 The wheel'd seate Of Fortunate Cæsar. View more context for this quotation
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. viii. 181 The Queenes expences is..but the use of her Shovels, Spades, Pickaxes and Whildebarrowes.
1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. viii. 196 The wheeled plough.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. x. 290 An inland country, destitute of navigable rivers, and not suited to wheeled carriages.
1836 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) I. 258 Ever shifting their wheeled houses.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxx. 300 Withers the page, released..from the propulsion of the wheeled-chair.
1855 J. Hewitt Anc. Armour I. p. xxii The knights appear to have rejected with particular obstinacy the innovation of the wheeled spur.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine ii. 134 Roads for wheeled vehicles are now unknown in any part of Palestine.
1875 Reynardson Down the Road 107 A tinker with one of those wheeled grinding-stones.
1911 F. H. Burnett Secret Garden xx. 213 The strongest footman in the house carried Colin down-stairs and put him in his wheeled chair.
1981 J. Mann Funeral Sites i. 11 I'm too fat for an operation, they say... It's endurance or a wheeled chair.
b. transferred. Effected on wheels or by wheeled vehicles.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [adjective] > by wheeled conveyance
wheeled1854
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [adjective] > effected by wheeled vehicles
wheeled1854
1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 348 Wheeled carriage is unknown:..no wheeled conveyances could be used.
1882 T. G. Bowles Flotsam & Jetsam 110 The almost entire absence of wheeled traffic.
1906 Blackwood's Mag. May 640/2 The country through which we passed in our wheeled pilgrimage to Land's End.
2. Of the form of a wheel. poetic. rare.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [adjective] > circular
trendledc1220
circle-likea1420
circular1430
compass?1523
compassed1551
circled1578
circuled1582
orbal1603
circulary1610
wheely1708
spherical1730
encircular1806
sphered1820
wheeled1820
moony1836
wheel-shaped1895
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 135 I see a chariot... Its wheels are solid clouds,..A guiding power directs the chariot's prow Over its wheeled clouds.
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