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awheel

British  
/ əˈwiːl /

adverb

  1. on wheels

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

When his car—he called it "the bus"—was agreeable, he went awheel in search of amusement.

From Gigolo by Ferber, Edna

The pity is that these thorough-going admirers of days as dead as those of the Pharaohs were so largely “mute, inglorious Miltons,” and have left so small a record of their stirring times awheel.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

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 Bostwick, Arthur E.

And now I am again in the streets of the city, rattling with the racing flotilla of things awheel.

From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.