four-wheeler

English

four-wheeler (plural four-wheelers)

A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart [from 19th c.].
- 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 22, in Dracula:
  At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
- 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In Quest of a Solution”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 41:
  In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.
- 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter:
  "Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."
A four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle; a quad bike.
- 2023 November 29, “Former officer resigns after ATV crash in Greenwood leads to endangering the welfare of a minor charge”, in 5NEWS:
  Reid pressured the teen to ride with him on the four-wheeler, but the teen said no "several times" because he saw Reid drinking liquor beforehand, and the ATV had bad brakes, documents state.
Any vehicle with four wheels.

vehicle with four wheels