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.
From Time Magazine Archive
When his car—he called it "the bus"—was agreeable, he went awheel in search of amusement.
From Gigolo by Edna Ferber
Which one of us, whether afoot, awheel, on horseback, or in comfortable carriage, has not whiled away the time by glancing about?
From The Farringdons by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
No one who has not travelled through America on foot, horseback, or awheel knows anything about the variety and charm of this great country.
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy
And I don't feel exactly comfortable seeing him tramping along when most people are awheel.
From Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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