a. [f. FOUR a. + WHEEL sb. + -ED2.] Having or running upon four wheels.

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1622.  in Crt. & Times Jas. I. (1849), II. 327. One [proclamation] against four-wheeled carts or waggons, that with their weight mar and tear the highways.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., IX. 286.

        Scarce twenty four-wheel’d cars, compact and strong,
The massy load cou’d bear, or roll along.

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1865.  Trollope, Belton Est., i. 14. The four-wheeled carriage, with the demure stable-boy, came to the door.

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  transf.  1876.  T. Hardy, Ethelberta (1890), 230. Considering that she might pull up some distance short of the castle, and leave the ass at a cottage before joining her four-wheeled friends, she struck the bargain and rode on her way.

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