coachwheel

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cartwheel, the wheel of a horse-drawn coach
  2. A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings. UK,historical,obsolete,slang
    — Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

词形变化

coachwheels plural

词源

Etymology tree
English coach
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
English coachwheel
From coach + wheel.
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