wheelern.
/ˈwiːlə/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wilər/ I. Senses derived from the noun.† 1. wheeler dog n. Obsolete rare. ? originally a turnspit dog; transferred a roasting-jack or similar instrument.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > roasting-jack
wheeler dog1379
Jack1391
spit-turner?a1500
turnspit1606
hanging jack1660
turnspit-jack1674
smoke-jack1676
roasting-jack1698
water-jack1807
bottle jack1810
spit-jack1967
1379 Will of Richard Carter (Guildhall Libr. MS 9171/1) f. 68 Vnum instrumentum vocatum a whelere dogge.
2. A wheelwright or wheel-maker.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of wheels or wheeled vehicles
wheelwright1281
cartwright14..
wheeler1497
cart-maker1579
coach-wright1587
coach-maker1599
coach-wheeler1686
coach-builder1794
coach-joiner1800
wainwright1855
wagon-wright1858
wheel-assembler1897
auto worker1901
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > making wheels or wheeled vehicles > one who
wheelwright1281
wheeler1497
coach-wheeler1686
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 109 Whelers and Smythes toles.
1549 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 570 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 A wheler to make wheles.
1666 Bedloe's Narr. Popish Plot 6 A Paper with a Ball of Wild-fire,..was found in the Nave of a Wheel, in a Wheelers-yard.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 19 The Stones that..ever will be the Cause of a greater Charge of Smith's and Wheeler's Bills.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 84 The wheeler's shop, always picturesque, with its tools, and its work.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 468/1 Wheelers,..the mechanics of a battery engaged in setting up the wheels of the gun-carriages.
1901 Daily Chron. 8 May 11/2 Wheel~wrights.—Wanted 2 good wheelers.
3. A wheel-horse (see wheel n. Compounds 2) or other draught-animal in the same position; often opposed to leader (leader n.1 6b).
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > work animals > draught animal
field beasta1382
plough-beast1454
ploughware1465
plough1505
worker1617
wheeler1813
poler1860
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > team of > horse(s) attached to or between shafts
thill-horsec1325
limoneer1524
thiller1552
body horse1558
fill-horse1600
limber1632
filler1695
pole horse1725
shaft-horse1769
wheel-pair1794
wheeler1813
shafter1840
1813 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 82 My leader took fright..but luckily I kept my wheeler in.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. vi. 162 Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers; and now it was rearing up in the air.
1885 New Bk. Sports 171 Few things are more distressing than to see..one wheeler hanging away from the pole, and the other hugging it.
4. One who attends to the wheel in a spinning-machine.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > one who tends to
piecener1831
creeler1864
wheeler1876
1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist iii. 47 Each spinner had three boys under him—the wheeler, the pointer, and the stripper.
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5. Needlework. One who makes ‘wheels’: see wheel n. 9a(a).
6. = wheel-bird n. at wheel n. Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, etc.) > [noun] > family Caprimulgidae > member of genus Caprimulgus > caprimulgus europaeus (nightjar)
goat-milker1611
goatsucker1611
nighthawk1611
nightjar1630
dor-hawk1668
churn-owl1674
fern-owl1678
goat owl1766
eve-jara1793
puckeridgea1793
moth-hunter1816
wheel-bird1817
jar-owl1832
nightchurr1837
night-swallow1840
eve-churr1861
wheeler1862
scissors-grinder1875
puck1878
spinner1885
1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 625 Wheel-bird, or Wheeler, the Nightjar.
7. Something, as a vehicle, a boat, etc. furnished with a wheel or wheels: chiefly in compounds, as four-wheeler n., sternwheeler n. at stern-wheel n. Derivatives, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun]
carriagea1450
wheel-carriage1733
wheeler1886
1886 A. Watt Electro-deposition 314 The whole bicycle fraternity, who had been accustomed to plain steel or painted wheelers.
8. ? A nail used in fixing the parts of a wheel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > nails for other specific uses
stay-nail1296
wough-nailc1300
strake-nail1334
wall-nail1344
traverse nail1348
doornail1350
gad-nail1375
lath-nail1388
clout-nail1463
lattice-nail1480
lath-brod1536
sheathing-nail1611
bellows-nail1731
weight nail1850
panel pin1867
wheeler1873
fencing-nail1874
brattice-nail1880
toggle1934
1873 Iron 1 Feb. 75/1 Nails..Wrought..Best Derby Countersunk Dub deep Wheelers, 3 [lbs.], 2/9.
II. Senses derived from the verb.† 10. One of a series of projecting stones in a battlement: see quot. Obsolete. rare.
9. One who wheels a vehicle, or conveys something in a wheeled vehicle (esp. a wheelbarrow).
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle > one who
wheeler1683
hurler1802
trundler1879
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with wheelbarrows
wheeler1683
wheelbarrower1893
1683 J. Reid Scots Gard'ner (1907) 55 With wheel-barrows; three barrows for two wheelers and one filler sometimes doth well.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 261/1 Wheeler, is him that carryeth the Clay from the Pit, to the Moulding Board foot.
1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. iii. 24 The younger boys worked as wheelers or pickers on the bank-tops.
1884 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks (1889) 131 The wheeler gathers the stones and hard lumps of clay that have been thrown out..and wheels them to some out of the way place.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > battlements > projecting stone
wheeler1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 470/2 A Tower with a plain Battlement; that is, the Battlement is not made with Wheelers and Kneelers, but is streight, and even in the Walk of the Wall.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 472/1 (Terms of the Fractable on a Gable end) A Wheeler, are wrought stones that ly levell and streight, yet make outward Angles when other stones are ioyned to them.
11. Military. The man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier who practises drill or evolution > [noun] > one who practises wheeling
pivot1782
pivotman1782
pivot leader1788
wheeler1798
1798 W. Young Instr. Armed Yeoman 13 The man on the other Flank, or Wheeler, will move round square, to Dress by the Pivot Man.
12. One who turns so as to face another way; figurative one who changes his or her opinion or attitude, a turncoat, a ‘weathercock’.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] > one who changes opinion
wheeler1836
poacher turned gamekeeper1891
mind-changer1931
gamekeeper turned poacher1978
1836 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 3 40 He..is one of the most notorious wheelers in Parliament.
13. One who rides a bicycle or tricycle, a cyclist. colloquial.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > cyclist
bicycler1869
bicyclist1869
cycler1876
cyclist1877
pedaller1881
wheelman1881
biker1883
wheeler1886
pedal pusher1912
push-cyclist1912
1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 232/1 Wheeler, velocipedist.
1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang
1929 Newport & Market Drayton Advertiser 28 June 3/4 Shropshire wheelers. Sunday's run to Bala.
1979 Guardian 8 Aug. 7/4 A posh camping shop..no shop for humble wheelers.
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1745 H. Baker Let. in Employm. for Microscope (1753) ii. vi. 269 I give it also for Distinction sake the Name of Wheeler, Wheel Insect or Animal; from its being furnished with a pair of Instruments, which in Figure and Motion appear much to resemble Wheels.
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