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wheelman

[weel-muhn, hweel-] / ˈwil mən, ˈʰwil- /
NOUN
navigator
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The former wheelman retired 18 years ago to run a luxury car service in New Orleans.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

“I never thought I was taking a risk. I know how good he is, I’m just fortunate we were able to get him, and man, what a wheelman he is,” said Hendrick.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2021

This is the legacy bequeathed to him by his father, Anthony “Ant” Montage, another ace wheelman who skipped town when Beauregard was 13.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020

After him, some 13 years later, came Willy T Ribbs, a rightly cocky wheelman who wound up exploiting his talents in road racing.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2020

This is the road that is, on the whole, wiser for the wheelman to take.

From Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various

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

NE evening Brownies, peeping down From bluffs that overlooked the town, Saw wheelmen passing to and fro Upon the boulevard below.

From The Brownies: Their Book by Palmer Cox

Steadily the wheelmen five “Nor’ by East keep her.”

From How the Flag Became Old Glory by A. C. Valentine

Before bicycling will ever become a success a meeting must be called for the purpose of allowing the wheelmen and the pedestrian to arrive at some understanding.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke




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