Meanings
- datednot comparableRiding a bicycle.
Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say)
2009 February 16, “Keeping it Reeled In”, in Bike Snob NYC, retrieved 26 Aug 20121 more example
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.
1944 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48 - datednot comparableTravelling 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.
1927 October 1, Johnson, “Talk of the Town”, in New Yorker - not comparablepoeticCircling; moving in the shape of a wheel.
Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.
1983, Poul Anderson, “The Sorrow of Odin the Goth”, in Time Patrolman (Sci-fi), Tom Doherty, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivetraveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g.
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂en-
- Proto-Germanic*an
- Proto-West Germanic*ana
- Old Englishon
- Middle Englishan
- Middle Englisha-
- Englisha-
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷekʷléh₂
- Proto-Germanic*hweulō
- Old Englishhwēol
- Middle Englishwhel
- Englishwheel
- Englishawheel
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with awheel
Cite this entry
awheel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awheel
“awheel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awheel. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “awheel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awheel.
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