different between wheedler vs wheeler

English

wheedle +? -er

wheedler (plural wheedlers)

From Middle English whelere, equivalent to wheel +? -er.

wheeler (plural wheelers)

(obsolete) A wheelwright, a wheelmaker.
Someone who operates a wheel.
(archaic) A wheelhorse (horse near wheel of carriage).
(used in combination with a preceding whole number) A vehicle having the specified number of wheels.
(Britain, historical, Liverpudlian) A sett in a stoneway.
- 1894, Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society (page 109)
  These wheelers are now made from the same class of rock as the rest of the pavement, […]

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