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Icy: uncle slipping about — hard to keep one's balance on this
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unicycle
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Word definitions for unicycle in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A unicycle is a vehicle that touches the ground with only one wheel . The most common variation has a frame with a saddle , and has a pedal-driven direct drive . Unicycling is practiced professionally in circuses , by street performers , and in festivals ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1869, American English, from Latin uni- "one" (see uni- ) + -cycle, from bicycle (from Greek kyklos "circle, wheel").
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a vehicle with a single wheel that is driven by pedals [syn: monocycle ]
Usage examples of unicycle.
There was no light shining from under the door, but there was a unicycle parked against the wall outside.
He was very talented on the unicycle, you could tell, but you could also tell that the unicycle was a dead end for him.
He pedaled listlessly in place on his unicycle, holding on to a parking meter for support.
He let the wheel roll too close to the curb and the unicycle pitched him hard into the fender of a parked car.
There were no photographs of speed-skating teams on the walls, there was no unicycle parked by the door to the W.
Her friends had provided a gyro-stabilized unicycle seating two, so she could ferry him rapidly about, anywhere where crowds would not find it too attention-fixing.
She carried him to their unicycle and set him in the seat and flung the safety harness around him while Stile clung to consciousness and to his leaking thigh.
The hazards of this chase would shake apart the unicycle before they stopped the three-wheeled pursuer.
Stile watched her helplessly, as Sheen guided the unicycle along the curtain, now one side of it, now the other, causing his view to shift about considerably.
He brought little treats for the girls, a new unicycle for George, and a series of beautifully bound books for Phillip.
When a man in a turban rode past on a unicycle, Parvati pulled Randy into a dark doorway.
Trying to feel deeply and think perfectly clearly at the same time was like simultaneously juggling six Indian clubs while riding a unicycle backward along a high wire.
They reached the front of the stage, and Miss Spink leapt nimbly off the unicycle, and the two old women bowed low.
Al hung upside down, still seated on the unicycle, six feet in the air over the head of the catcher, motionless, sailing forward in a long somersault.
It would be kind of like trying to ride a unicycle when you only know 242 how to ride a bike.