awheel
adv/əˈwiːl/ · /əˈʍiːl/
Etymology From a- + wheel.
1
Dated 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.1944 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
- 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 2012:
2
Dated 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.1927 October 1, Johnson, “Talk of the Town”, in New Yorker:
3
Poetic Circling; 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: