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awheel
/əˈwiːl/
adv 3
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4ADJ.
british
VERB + AWHEEL
bikes
PREP.
on
ADV.
then
Definitions
adv
1
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.
Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say)
2
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.
3
Circling; moving in the shape of a wheel.
Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.
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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.
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Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say)
Wiktionary03
[…] 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.
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