The Collaborative International Dictionary
Four-wheeler \Four"-wheel`er\, n. A vehicle having four wheels; specifically, a hackney carriage with four weels. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart. 2 Any vehicle with four wheels.
WordNet
n. a hackney carriage with four wheels
Usage examples of "four-wheeler".
The Hydropathic omnibuses began to roll up and discharge new guests, and they were followed by several taxi-cabs and one ancient four-wheeler.
The bill was settled at last, and the little party standing on the steps waited for the return of Miss Chiffers, who had been dispatched for a four-wheeler.
Two-wheelers, four-wheelers, pulled by horses, by sneering ptera-birds, by steam-wheezing constructs on caterpillar treads.
It swooped crabwise across the concrete, missed a dawdling phaeton by a hairbreadth, flashed between two other gyrocars, wiped the fender off a dancing four-wheeler and slammed into the side.
The only difference was that present-day Yupik hunted from skiffs with outboard engines instead of kayaks, and four-wheelers and snow machines instead of dog sleds, and much of the time they did it commercially, for sale and not for subsistence.
Of a sudden the decent quiet of King Street, thus far accentuated rather than disturbed by the routine grind of hansoms and four-wheelers, was enlivened by spirited hoofs whose clatter stilled abruptly in front of the auction room.
Trikes and four-wheelers were parked in droves, and mixed among them were a few jeeps and trucks.
When the light was green, the trikes and four-wheelers would resume their travel.
The trikes and four-wheelers scooted to the sides of the highway, some to the left and some to the right, opening an aisle for the Technic police and the SEAL.
Instead of staring at the SEAL, as any ordinary, curious person would do, the occupants of the trikes and four-wheelers averted their faces, deliberately turning away from the transport.
And the trikes and four-wheelers would be as fleas assaulting a grizzly if they endeavored to impede the SEAL.
He saw dozens of trikes and four-wheelers crash as they wildly endeavored to avoid the melee.
In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.
In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.
It was a big twenty-four-foot four-wheeler built in Cape Town from good English oak, but it still showed all the marks of punishment from its long trek up from the south.