awheel

adverb (or adjective)

ə +

: riding (as on a bicycle or in an automobile)

a concourse of citizens awheel and afoot

—Winston Churchill

the lure of a spring holiday awheel

—Bert Pierce

Word History

Etymology

a- entry 1 (as in afoot) + wheel

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