wheelman
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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
But unlike Newman, who took up racing late in life as preparation for the lead in the 1969 classic Winning and willed himself into a first-rate wheelman, Haywood was a natural.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2019
He's hell of a wheelman, that old man still gets after it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2011
He could see the chin and jaws of the wheelman and the beard of old Captain Newton.
From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
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
All routes of this nature must, of course, be divided by wheelmen reading this Department into sections of a length which is most suitable for their own special purposes.
From Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 by Various
"East-north-east, sir!" replied the quartermaster, who was conning the wheel—that is, he was watching the compass, and seeing that the two wheelmen kept the ship on her course.
From Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat by Optic, Oliver
If they do, the interscholastic associations will no doubt follow suit, and then the wheelmen will find themselves, to a certain extent, out of it, if they have not already prepared for separate contests.
From Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895 by Various
