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FOUR-WHEELER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hackney carriage with four wheels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("four-wheeler" is a kind of...):
hackney; hackney carriage; hackney coach (a carriage for hire)
Context examples:
We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one there!
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I will order a four-wheeler.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As far as the church door he brought her, and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a four-wheeler and out at the other.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
