Definition of "wheeler"

wheeler

noun
plural wheelers
1. (obsolete) A wheelwright, a wheelmaker.
2. Someone who operates a wheel.
3. (archaic) A wheelhorse (horse near wheel of carriage).
4. (in combination) A vehicle having the specified number of wheels.
  Quotations
  "Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."
  1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Greek Interpreter
5. (UK, historical, Liverpool) A sett in a stoneway.
  Quotations
  These wheelers are now made from the same class of rock as the rest of the pavement, […]
  1894, Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society, page 109