four-wheelers

Noun

four-wheeler (plural four-wheelers)

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.
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.

   Synonyms:

   quad, quad bike

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.