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Definition of Four-wheel drive

1. Noun. A motor vehicle with a four-wheel drive transmission system.

2. Noun. A transmission that provides power directly to all four wheels of a motor vehicle.

Definition of Four-wheel drive

1. Noun. A four-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four wheels to receive torque from the engine simultaneously. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Four-wheel Drive

four-seamer four-seamers four-sided four-spot four-square four-strand crossing over four-stroke engine four-stroke engines four-stroke internal-combustion engine four-stroking

four-tailed bandage four-vector four-vectors four-velocity four-wheel four-wheel drive (current term) four-wheeled four-wheeler four-wheelers four-wing flying fish

four L four by two four by twos four door house four fingers four flush four foot four hundred four o'clock

Literary usage of Four-wheel drive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Operation and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1917)
"... Direct Drive Axle—Differential Locks—Single Chain Drive—Four Wheel Drive and Steer System—Front Wheel Drive System—Utility of Motor Car Brakes—Forms of ..."

2. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"1—A couple-gear four wheel drive and four wheel steer Gas-Electric motive power truck. Especially designed (or suburban and other long distance work. ..."

3. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Operation and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1917)
"... Bevel Drive Gearing—Two Speed Direct Drive Axle—Differential Locks—Single Chain Drive—Four Wheel Drive and Steer System—Front Wheel Drive System—Utility ..."

4. Adventure Guide to the Virgin Islands by Lynne Sullivan (2000)
"Independent Four-Wheel Drive Tour The best way to explore St. John on your own is in an open-air four- wheel-drive vehicle that allows maximum visibility as ..."

5. Automobile Engineering: A General Reference Work by American Technical Society (1921)
"Advantages of Four-Wheel Drive. It is claimed for the four-wheel drive that its four-wheel ... The four-wheel drive type will turn in a 48-foot circle, and, ..."

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