Bicycle

Quick meaning: Bicycle is a noun meaning A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs.

Meaning

A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs.

More Meanings

1. The best possible hand in lowball.
2. (British, Australia, New Zealand) A motorbike.
3. (climbing) A stabilizing technique in which one foot is pushed down while the other is pulled up.
4. (poker slang) The wheel: either the lowest straight (A-2-3-4-5) or the best low hand in Lowball or High-low poker.
5. A vehicle that has two primary wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals.
6. (by extension, sometimes proscribed) Any similar vehicle powered by human pedaling or steered with a handlebar, regardless of the number of wheels.
7. (vulgar slang, usually in compounds specifying a context) A slut; a promiscuous woman.

Example Sentences

The small, three-wheeled bicycle-type vehicle is probably the lowest-cost set of wheels for routine, in-park patrol use.

“Bicycling” defeated the possibility of topicality, a prime production habit of the network-trained production executives staffing the new entity.

In turn, two-inch tapes of these could be “bicycled” from one place to another across the country, thereby altering and improving production economies.

The fumarate produced in the argininosuccinase reaction is also an intermediate of the citric acid cycle. Thus, the cycles are, in principle, interconnected — in a process dubbed the “Krebs bicycle”.

Word Forms

• bicycles
• bicycling
• bicycled

Synonyms for bicycle

Depending on context, synonyms include wheel, bike, celeripede, cycle, velocipede, pushbike.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bike, cycle, pedal, wheel, motorcycle, cyclist.

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