four-wheeler
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.76 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart .
noun
A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
Example Sentences
- "The local doctor was often seen passing by in a four-wheeler on his way to a house call."
- "At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away."
- "In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women."
- ""Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once.""
- "The ranchhands use four-wheelers to move about the ranch, ferrying supplies and patrolling distant fields and pastures."
- "Reid pressured the teen to ride with him on the four-wheeler, but the teen said no "several times" because he saw Reid drinking liquor beforehand, and the ATV had bad brakes, documents state."