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wheelers

wheelers is the plural of wheeler.

Meaning of wheeler

Noun

wheeler (plural wheelers)

  1. (obsolete) A wheelwright, a wheelmaker.
  2. Someone who operates a wheel.
  3. (archaic) A wheelhorse (horse near wheel of carriage).
    • How proud felt Pierre: In fancy’s eye, he saw the horse-ghosts a-tandem in the van; “These are but wheelers”—cried young Pierre—“the leaders are the generations.”1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
  4. (in-compounds) A vehicle having the specified number or type of wheels.
    • "Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Greek Interpreter
  5. (UK, historical, Liverpool) A sett in a stoneway.
    • These wheelers are now made from the same class of rock as the rest of the pavement, […]1894, Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society, page 109

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Proper noun capitalized: Wheelers

Wheelers

  1. (plural) plural of Wheeler

Phrases with wheelers

Questions about wheelers

What is wheelers the plural of?
Wheelers is the plural of wheeler.
What part of speech is wheelers?
Wheelers is a proper noun.

Words near wheelers in the dictionary

  1. wheelerdealer
  2. wheelerdealers
  3. Wheelerian
  4. wheeleries
  5. wheelerite
  6. wheelers
  7. wheelers and dealers
  8. Wheelers Hill
  9. Wheelerwood
  10. wheelery
  11. wheelest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheelers (page history and authors); Wheelers (page history and authors); wheeler (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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