At Woodhull Hospital, the Bed-Stuy ambulance crew kept doing all they could as they wheeled Ramos into the emergency room.
Mubarak was present, wheeled in on a hospital trolley and wearing his trademark sunglasses.
When the machine was wheeled in, I pulled the window shades closed and applied the ultrasound probe to his chest.
The sandal is pictured in cartoon-form against the New York skyline on a wheeled plank, held up by wires emerging from the ground.
I was working the evening shift in my last year of medical school when they wheeled Dylan into the pediatric emergency room.
And he wheeled one of the easy chairs to the spot where that lady was standing.
He wheeled his horse across the walk to bar her way, and quickly dismounted.
When he reached the deck and wheeled around to look at me you just ought to have seen his face.
Dick heard a light step in the passage and he wheeled quickly.
He wheeled it up to the side door, an' put a plank over the steps, an' wheeled it right in.
"to turn like a wheel," early 13c., from wheel (n.); transitive sense attested from late 14c. Related: Wheeled; wheeling.
Old English hweol, hweogol, from Proto-Germanic *khwekhwlan, *khwegwlan (cf. Old Norse hvel, Old Swedish hiughl, Old Frisian hwel, Middle Dutch weel), from PIE *k(w)e-k(w)lo- "wheel, circle" (cf. Old Church Slavonic kolo "wheel"), a reduplicated form from root *k(w)el- "to go round" (see cycle (n.)).
The root wegh-, "to convey, especially by wheeled vehicle," is found in virtually every branch of Indo-European, including now Anatolian. The root, as well as other widely represented roots such as aks- and nobh-, attests to the presence of the wheel -- and vehicles using it -- at the time Proto-Indo-European was spoken. [Watkins, p. 96]Figurative sense is early 14c. Slang wheels "a car" is recorded from 1959. Wheeler-dealer is from 1954, a rhyming elaboration of dealer; wheelie is from 1966.
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