awheel
adv/əˈwiːl/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Middle English an Middle English a- English a- Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel English awheel From a- + wheel.
- derived from *h₂en-der✻
Definitions
Riding a bicycle.
- Before the war, I used often to put my "bike" on the 12.20 p.m. (Saturdays only) and cover quite a lot of ground a-wheel before returning by another "Saturdays only" train leaving Moniaive about 10 p.m.
- Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say)
Travelling by a wheeled vehicle.
- […] an observer at large who chanced to be at the corner of Fourteenth Street and Seventh Avenue late one night when the traffic signals brought to a halt the few taxis that were awheel then.
Circling
Circling; moving in the shape of a wheel.
- Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for awheel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA