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coachwheels

coachwheels is the plural of coachwheel.

Meaning of coachwheel

Noun

coachwheel (plural coachwheels)

  1. A cartwheel, the wheel of a horse-drawn coach
  2. (UK, historical, obsolete, slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
    • Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words

Questions about coachwheels

What is coachwheels the plural of?
Coachwheels is the plural of coachwheel.

Words near coachwheels in the dictionary

  1. coachstands
  2. coachway
  3. coachways
  4. coachweed
  5. coachwheel
  6. coachwheels
  7. coachwhip
  8. coachwhipping
  9. coachwhips
  10. coachwise
  11. coachwoman

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