four-wheel

or four-wheeled

[ fawr-hweel, -weel, fohr- ]

adjective

1. having four wheels.
2. functioning on or driven by four wheels.

Word History and Origins

Origin of four-wheel¹

First recorded in 1730–40

Example Sentences

He rode around in a new four-wheel-drive pickup truck, flying a white flag.

From The Daily Beast

A guy with a van that had four-wheel drive would take us into the city for $150.

From The Daily Beast

Woolley hitched the horse to the back of his four-wheel-drive and traveled 1,500 miles to Churchill Downs.

From The Daily Beast

They drive four-wheel-drive cars and live in really good houses.

From The Daily Beast

It was thirty feet in length, four-wheel trucks being attached at the ends, very much after the present fashion.

From Project Gutenberg

They were upholstered in plush, lighted by oil lamps, heated with box stoves, and mounted on four-wheel trucks with iron wheels.

From Project Gutenberg

This consists of a scoop of about one cubic yard capacity, suspended from a four-wheel wagon gear.

From Project Gutenberg

The squire's high "four-wheel" drew up before the door of the Swan Hotel at Wells about twelve o'clock that day.

From Project Gutenberg

The four-wheel horse cabs seem very slow to us now, but they carried more luggage than the taxi-cabs can.

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