wheelers

3 definitions • 5 examples

a person who is riding a bicycle, or using a wheelchair or other device with wheels:

Weary wheelers: four exhausted cyclists are just two days away from their target after pedalling more than 600 miles in a charity ride.

Power-assisted wheelchairs enabled wheelers to travel further than their usual distances.

in the past, an animal, usually a horse, that pulls a cart, carriage, etc. and is nearest to the front wheels of the vehicle:

One of their wheelers - a horse of great value - lay at the point of death.

A lion attacked one of the wheelers or shaft oxen, which had been fastened to the pole of the wagon.

used with numbers to form a noun that describes a vehicle with the stated number of wheels:

He drives a three-wheeler (= a car with three wheels).