Dictionary entry

Wheeler

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wheel″er (?), n.

1. One who wheels, or turns.

2. A maker of wheels; a wheelwright.

3. A wheel horse. See under Wheel.

4. (Naut.) A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; — used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.

5. A worker on sewed muslin.

6. (Zoöl.) The European goatsucker.