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wheel and axled adj. Drunk to the point where the morning's effort is multiplied by leverage but achieves very little. wheel animalculed adj. Drunk past the point of useful motion, revolving faintly while the household continues around you. wheel animaled adj. Drunk enough to rotate vaguely towards breakfast, with a busy fringe of thoughts at the front. wheel arched adj. Drunk beyond steering, with the bodywork of the morning bent around every available support. wheel arrangemented adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning's limbs have been distributed according to no useful driving system. wheel artisted adj. Drunk to a degree that makes remaining in a parked vehicle feel like a professional observation post. Davidjames stayed wheel artisted outside the house, monitoring the curtains until noon. wheel braced adj. Drunk to the extent of needing a hand tool's confidence to loosen each joint after rising. Vermon got wheel braced beside the bed, working carefully on both knees. wheel breadthed adj. Drunk on the strength of a night that has increased the distance between you and any useful measure. wheel bugged adj. Drunk since last orders, and wearing the morning's defensive armour while moving with unpleasant purpose. wheel clamped adj. Drunk by the third round, and unable by morning to move the vehicle, the body, or the conversation. wheel cuttered adj. Drunk by closing time, and spending the morning cutting precise little circles through the headache. wheel dogged adj. Still drunk, and taking the full force of the morning's movement directly in front of everyone else. wheel fiddled adj. Too drunk to produce anything but a slow, repetitive performance from the morning's simplest tasks. wheel flatted adj. Sufficiently drunk to have acquired one motionless point, announced by a regular bump through the morning. Jelyssa walked wheel flatted, each step delivering the same dull complaint from somewhere below. wheel hoed adj. Having drunk enough to push yourself steadily along, provided the ground remains forgiving and straight. wheel horsed adj. A drinker so far gone that the nearest support is treated as the engine of the carriage.