a. Also 7 wheeld, whilde. [f. WHEEL sb. + -ED2. (In OE. in parasynthetic comb. fýrhweohlod four-wheeled, héhhwíolad high-wheeled.)]
1. Furnished with a wheel or wheels, or with any revolving disk; esp. of a vehicle, mounted or moving on wheels. Also in parasynthetic comb., as two-wheeled, etc.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., IV. xiv. 75. The wheel’d seate Of Fortunate Cæsar.
1633. T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., III. viii. (1821), 322. Pickaxes and Whildebarrowes.
1765. A. Dickson, Treat. Agric. (ed. 2), 219. The wheeled plough.
1815. Elphinstone, Acc. Caubul (1842), I. 378. An inland country, destitute of navigable rivers, and not suited to wheeled carriages.
1836. Prichard, Phys. Hist. Man. (ed. 3), I. 258. Ever shifting their wheeled houses.
1855. J. Hewitt, Anc. Armour, I. p. xxii. The knights appear to have rejected with particular obstinacy the innovation of the wheeled spur.
1856. Stanley, Sinai & Pal., ii. 134. Roads for wheeled vehicles are now unknown in any part of Palestine.
1875. Reynardson, Down the Road, 107. A tinker with one of those wheeled grinding-stones.
b. transf. Effected on wheels or by wheeled vehicles.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 348. Wheeled carriage is unknown:… no wheeled conveyances could be used.
1882. T. G. Bowles, Flotsam & Jetsam, 110. The almost entire absence of wheeled traffic.
1906. Blackw. Mag., May, 640/2. The country through which we passed in our wheeled pilgrimage to Land’s End.
2. Of the form of a wheel. poet. rare.
1820. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., IV. 233. I see a chariot…. Its wheels are solid clouds,… A guiding power directs the chariot’s prow Over its wheelèd clouds.
