motor-wheel

Definitions

noun A motorcycle.
noun A self-propelling truck, consisting of an axle and wheels carrying the driving-power, which can be fastened to the body of a carnage or wagon in place of the front axle and wheels, and used to propel the vehicle; a fore-carriage.

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As the "almighty dollar" is now the great motor-wheel of humanity, and that to which most husbands devote their entire lives to delve alone is uphill work.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
As the "almighty dollar" is now the great motor-wheel of humanity, and that to which most husbands devote their entire lives, to delve alone is uphill work.

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage B.G. Jefferis
Having been done up neat and tight in khaki, with a motor-wheel on his sleeve to show his branch of the service, he stood and looked at himself in the glass, experiencing a demoralizing and unworthy excitement.

Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
That had come out all right, but now, Larry, mounted on Joker, and led in chains at Tishy's motor-wheel, found that among his former allies of the hunt things were not as they once had been, and was not pleased.

Mount Music Martin Ross 1888
The vehicle's electric motor-wheel drive gives the designer the freedom to work on the form of the machine, giving it a unique front end with double noses for better aerodynamic performance.

Ecofriend Jolly 2010