ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Boneshaker

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Boneshaker is a noun meaning A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).

Meaning

A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).

More Meanings

  1. Something jolty.

Example Sentences

a boneshaker of a journey
The car was a real boneshaker.
The man named Honeysett had ridden off on an old boneshaker of his to fetch the engines.
As this was my third journey on these boneshakers I am beginning to think there must be some very serious fault in their design.

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Related dictionary entries include ordinary, pushbike, lamplighter, pedibus, pulsator, vibratone.

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