wheeled

1. 1
   adjective

   Equipped with one or more wheels, or set on wheels for moving.

   The wheeled platform let the crew shift heavy gear without lifting it.

   Ancient armies depended on wheeled vehicles to haul supplies over long distances.

   Similarmobile, rolling

2. 2
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of wheel.

   He wheeled his bicycle through the crowded station.

   The orderly wheeled the patient toward the recovery ward.

   Note

   One spelling covers two quite different motions. With an object, it usually means pushed or rolled along on wheels (wheeled the patient in). Without one, it means turned sharply, pivoted or circled (the gulls wheeled overhead). Older writing may also use it for riding a bicycle. In a wheeled cart, the word is the adjective "on wheels", not a passive verb.

   The horseman wheeled and rode back toward the gate.

   Gulls wheeled above the harbor all afternoon.

3. 3
   adjectivein compounds

   Equipped with a specified number or type of wheels.

   The museum displayed a restored three-wheeled carriage from the last century.

   Off-road racers favor sturdy four-wheeled machines built for rough ground.

   Note

   This adjective almost always forms the second half of a compound, and the first half supplies a count or a material: three-wheeled, four-wheeled, iron-wheeled. Before a noun, the compound takes a hyphen (a three-wheeled car). On its own, without a modifier, the word belongs to the plain "having wheels" sense. The pattern is open, so new combinations such as six-wheeled or rubber-wheeled read naturally.

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