awheel

English

From a- +‎ wheel.

awheel (not comparable)

(dated) Riding a bicycle.
- 1944 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
  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.
- 2009 February 16, “Keeping it Reeled In”, in Bike Snob NYC‎^[1], retrieved 2012-08-26:
  Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say)
(dated) Travelling by a wheeled vehicle.
- 1927 October 1, Johnson, “Talk of the Town”, in New Yorker:
  […] 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.
(poetic) Circling; moving in the shape of a wheel.
- 1983, Poul Anderson, “The Sorrow of Odin the Goth”, in Time Patrolman (Sci-fi), Tom Doherty, →ISBN:
  Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.