three-wheeler

[ three-whee-ler, -wee- ]

noun

1. a vehicle equipped with three wheels, as a tricycle, a motorcycle with a sidecar, or some small, experimental, or early-model cars.

three-wheeler

noun

1. a light car that has three wheels

Word History and Origins

Origin of three-wheeler¹

1885–90; three wheel(s) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

I don't know, sir; he was, I believe he was on his three-wheeler.

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Were they three-wheeler officers too, do they drive three-wheelers?

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In 1887, he appeared in Paris with his three-wheeler, two rear drive and one front steering wheel.

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The honours of the occasion belong to the little Bollée three-wheeler, of a type long since obsolete.

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