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half-wheeled

half-wheeled is the simple past and past participle of half-wheel.

Meaning of half-wheel

Verb

half-wheel (third-person singular simple present half-wheels, present participle half-wheeling, simple past and past participle half-wheeled)

  1. To maintain a distance of half a wheel in front of another rider, regarded as poor etiquette.
    • Nobody half-wheels Bob and gets away with it. Bob kept forcing the pace by trying to ride next to him, and the pace escalated for almost an hour until Jock finally had to drop back.1992, Davis Phinney, Training for Cycling: The Ultimate Guide to Improved Performance

Questions about half-wheeled

What is half-wheeled the simple past and past participle of?
Half-wheeled is the simple past and past participle of half-wheel.

Words near half-wheeled in the dictionary

  1. half-volleys
  2. half-waking
  3. half-waxen
  4. half-way
  5. half-wheel
  6. half-wheeled
  7. half-wheeling
  8. half-wheels
  9. half-width
  10. half-widths
  11. half-wild

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Adapted from Wiktionary: half-wheeled (page history and authors); half-wheel (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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