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velocipede
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals [syn: tricycle , trike ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1819, "wheeled vehicle propelled by alternate thrusts of each foot on the ground," 1819, from French vélocipède (19c.), from Latin velox (genitive velocis ) "swift, speedy" (see velocity ) + pedem , accusative of pes "foot" (see foot (n.)). The mechanical ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Velocipede \Ve*loc"i*pede\, n. [L. velox, -ocis, swift + pes, pedis, a foot. See Velocity , and Foot .] A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Velocipede (; Latin for "fast foot") is a human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels. The most common type of velocipede today is the bicycle . The term was probably coined by Karl von Drais for the French translation of his advertising leaflet ...
Usage examples of velocipede.
The velocipede itself was not such a novelty to the spectators as the skates had been.
The velocipede came in, all right, and with Cecil pedaling it, but with no Daphne on his shoulders.
Finding and buying another velocipede had been no problem, and Shadid Sarkioglu had volunteered to be the one to learn to ride it.
He rode in and out of shop doorways and, wherever a building was fronted with streetside low stairs, he bounced the velocipede up and down them.
Shadid stood, toweling off the sweat after his long and active velocipede ride.
Maurice and Sunday on the traps, Monday on the rope, Daphne and Yount on their high velocipede, even little Cricket inside her rolling globe.
Daphne was on her Plimpton skates and the Quakemaker on the velocipede, both of them wheeling in and out of the line of march, among the watchers who crowded the sidewalks, in and out of shop doors.
So he rode his velocipede to the center of town, stopped in at the first pub he saw, and had lunch.
His next conscious thought was of picking himself and his velocipede up from the side of the road where he had evidently fallen.
Coop, who had seen to the brakes of each scooter but now peeled off from behind Lovett, who rode smartly into the ivy and fell, damning his demon velocipede and Coop Gunther with equal enthusiasm.
Jean-Claude thundering around the island at top speed in this multiton velocipede, a brontosaurus on wheels.
I do not believe in the penny-farthing or the scooter, the velocipede or the tandem-tourer.
The hind man came back and reported it, and being off duty, I caught up a pocket instrument and some wire, and jumping on a velocipede, was soon at the wreck.
Just then the track walker came into Truxton, and reported that he had come from the river on a velocipede, and that while the track was soft it was not unsafe and the bridge appeared to be all right.
Gustave was off like an arrow and although Max worked the pedals of his new velocipede as fast as he could, he was not able to win the race.