[f. FOUR + WHEEL sb. + -ER1.] A vehicle with four wheels; esp. a four-wheeled hackney carriage.
1846. J. Taylor, Upper Canada, 26. Farmers’ wives and daughters, of respectable appearance, frenquently enter the market with their neat four-wheeler and pair, loaded with vegetables, which they sometimes dispose of by giving friendly calls as they enter the city.
1860. All Year Round, II. 25 Feb., 415/1. A four-wheeler is let to a driver for about twelve shillings a-day, and he has to pay all expenses.
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, x. 155. He, having sent on all their luggage by a respectable old four-wheeler, got into the hansom beside her.
