awheel en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /əˈwiːl/
- /əˈʍiːl/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Middle English an Middle English a- English a- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel English awheel From a- + wheel.
Meanings
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(dated, not-comparable) Riding 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 2012: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:
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(dated, not-comparable) 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:
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(not-comparable, 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: