wheelman
noun
Also wheelsman a helmsperson or steersperson.
wheelmen
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pluralof wheelman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It’s a murder of the English language in hopes of buying time for the wheelmen to start the getaway car.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2021
They chugged past dim, pine-spiked shores until the sky greyed into day and the wheelmen could pick out the flag-topped buoys that marked their submerged nets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sounds of the street floated up to him—the clatter of hoofs on the asphalt, disjointed conversations from wheelmen, juvenile calls and whistles.
From The Short Line War by Merwin-Webster
Equestrians and wheelmen were also out in full force, and the presence of so many people set Nan's blood tingling with excitement.
From The Governess by Charles R. Chickering
Our force was divided into three groups,—one man to each wagon to drive; four to act as wheelmen; father and the women, on foot or horseback, to drive the stock.
From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by F. N. (Frederick N.) Wilson
