Date:  Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:20:42 -0500
From:  Ron Butters <RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Trouble Hunters on WHEELS

In disussing the archaism "trouble hunters," BP accidentally cites another:

> "While riding his wheel he was
bitten by a dog. ... "

I wonder how may people know that WHEEL once commonly meant 'bicycle'? My
Iowa great-grandmother (b. 1860) regularly used this slang (?) term, and I
think also her daughters and her daughters' husbands used it. Farmer&Henley
list this usage, but give no noun cites. Chapman does not list it, nor does
Beale/Partridge.