coachwheel
nounEtymology From coach + wheel.
1
A cartwheel, the wheel of a horse-drawn coach
2
UK, Historical, Obsolete, Slang A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
- Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: