different between wheeler vs wheels

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?l?(?)

Noun

wheeler (plural wheelers)

1. (obsolete) A wheelwright, a wheelmaker.
2. Someone who operates a wheel.
3. (archaic) A wheelhorse (horse near wheel of carriage).
4. (used in combination with a preceding whole number) A vehicle having the specified number of wheels.
5. (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, […]

Derived terms

• one-wheeler
• two-wheeler
• three-wheeler
• four-wheeler
• eighteen-wheeler
• wheeler-dealer

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?lz, IPA^(key): /wi?lz/
• Homophones: wheals, weals (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wheels

1. plural of wheel

Noun

wheels pl (plural only)

1. (by meronymy) An automobile or other vehicle; a set of wheels

   • Like my new wheels?
   • rolling 18 wheels

2. (bodybuilding, slang) Well-developed thigh muscles.
   • 1999 March 22, “OB205”, "Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?", misc.fitness.weights, Usenet

     Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.

     OB205: I totally agree with this, even to this day no one can beat those WHEELS!

   • 2004 December 28, Mark Jenkins and Jeff O’Connell, The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body, page 76, HarperCollins

     But Mary J. goes all-out during big leg day, and look at her wheels—toned but very feminine.

   • 2006 April 30, Jim Stoppani, Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength, page 131, Human Kinetics Publishers

     ...try this big wheels program to pack on muscle to your quads and hams.

See also

• guns

Verb

wheels

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wheel

Anagrams

• Lehews, WelshE, shewel