four-wheel

English

Adjective

four-wheel (not comparable)

1. Having four wheels
   • 1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 650:

     Between them, and fitted with the necessary turntables, capstans, and other appliances for transferring the small four-wheel carriages and vans from one track to another, were 14 tracks which converged outside the station into double-track through the Maiden Lane Tunnel, 528 yd. in length.

2. Having a transmission that drives all four wheels.

Related terms

• four-wheeling
• three-wheel