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wheelman

[weel-muhn, hweel-] / ˈwil mən, ˈʰwil- /
NOUN
navigator
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The former wheelman retired 18 years ago to run a luxury car service in New Orleans.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

“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

Statham’s first tryout as a standalone action star cast him as Frank Martin, a besuited wheelman with an immaculate black BMW and a very particular set of rules.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2019

"Make the course north north-east, Morris," he shouted to the wheelman.

From Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing by Oliver Optic

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

Old-fashioned folks, for whom the horseless vehicle came too late, can but envy wheelmen and wheelwomen as they skim through vista after vista, outstripping one's horse and carriage as a greyhound outstrips a decrepit poodle.

From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Matilda Betham-Edwards

If, at the last spurt of a bicycle race, we should call to the wheelmen, "Breathe through the nose!" we could not wonder if our advice remains unheeded.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann

Before bicycling will ever become a success a meeting must be called for the purpose of allowing the wheelmen and the pedestrian to arrive at some understanding.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke


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