Meaning

3 senses
  1. A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart .

    The local doctor was often seen passing by in a four-wheeler on his way to a house call.

    a hackney carriage with four wheels

  2. A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.

    The ranchhands use four-wheelers to move about the ranch, ferrying supplies and patrolling distant fields and pastures.

  3. Any vehicle with four wheels.

    Many of the earliest locomotives in the 1830s were four-wheelers; larger models with more axles would come later.

Translations

2 languages

Forms

plural: four-wheelers
Singularfour-wheeler
Pluralfour-wheelers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

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