wheeler Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976)
    Sir Mortimer Wheeler; Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler.
  2. noun someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels
    wheelwright.
  3. noun the man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling
  4. noun a person who rides a bicycle
    cyclist; bicycler; bicyclist.
  5. noun a draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle
    wheel horse.

WordNet

Wheel"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who wheels, or turns.
  2. A maker of wheels; a wheelwright. Obs.
  3. A wheel horse. See under Wheel.
  4. (Naut.) A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.
  5. A worker on sewed muslin. Eng.
  6. (Zoöl.) The European goatsucker. Prov. Eng.

Webster 1913