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a-wheel

a-wheel is the alternative form of awheel.

Meaning of awheel

Adverb

awheel (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Riding a bicycle.
    • Before the war, I used often to put my "bike" on the 12.20 p.m. (Saturdays only) and cover quite a lot of ground a-wheel before returning by another "Saturdays only" train leaving Moniaive about 10 p.m.1944 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48
  2. (dated) Travelling by a wheeled vehicle.
    • […] an observer at large who chanced to be at the corner of Fourteenth Street and Seventh Avenue late one night when the traffic signals brought to a halt the few taxis that were awheel then.1927 October 1, Johnson, “Talk of the Town”, in New Yorker
  3. (poetic) Circling; moving in the shape of a wheel.
    • Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.1983, Poul Anderson, “The Sorrow of Odin the Goth”, in Time Patrolman (Sci-fi), Tom Doherty, →ISBN

Questions about a-wheel

What is a-wheel the alternative form of?
A-wheel is the alternative form of awheel.

Words near a-wheel in the dictionary

  1. A-Town
  2. A-type conflict
  3. A-type conflicts
  4. A-V
  5. a-vie
  6. a-wheel
  7. a-women
  8. a-word
  9. a-words
  10. a.
  11. A. & M.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: a-wheel (page history and authors); awheel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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