wheelman

“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,” Hendrick said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2021

“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

You see, Bug used to be an expert wheelman, the best getaway driver East of the Mississippi ever since his father left.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2020

The wheelman, who was an old river pilot, was thoroughly acquainted with what he called the “Yukon flats,” and managed to elude 166 the sandbars and sunken islands with considerable dexterity.

From The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Mencl, Rudolf

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

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 Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)

Steady the wheelmen five "Nor' by east keep her," "Steady," but two alive: How the shells sweep her!

From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence