awheel
Britishadverb
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Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post.
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She passed groups in the avenue, some, like herself, awheel.
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
Then, too, in spite of all care and pioneering, awheel of the waggon would sink into some hollow or be brought heavily against the side of a rock.
From The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains by Henri Théophile Hildibrand
Then someone invents the safety bicycle, and in a trice all America, man, woman and child, is awheel.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Arthur E. Bostwick
Who his trimmed enough carriages to set all New Hampshire awheel, and who still practises his trade in Exeter.
From The Real Diary of a Real Boy by Henry A. (Henry Augustus) Shute
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