boneshaker
Britishnoun
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an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
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slang any decrepit or rickety vehicle
Example Sentences
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This we learn when a census officer pops by his breeze-block house – a half-cute, half-clumsy device – just before he hops on his boneshaker for the night shift at the local auto factory.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2013
By the time the old boneshaker finally took to the road, the empty plastic bag and bottle were at his feet, and he was gnawing the last clam off the stick.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
She saw him vividly, a little boy, whizzing down King Street on a boneshaker, and his cap flying off.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
At last the boneshaker displayed less unwillingness to obey, and lo! in a moment Dick was riding down the Square, and the spectators held their breath as if he had been Blondin crossing Niagara.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
I began to be acutely anxious about the old boneshaker, the more as we seemed a long way short of the village I had proposed to spend the night in.
From Greenmantle by John Buchan
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