Search for crossword answers and clues
One may have a basket and a bell (... + first 3)
Answer for the clue "One may have a basket and a bell (... + first 3) ", 7 letters:
bicycle
Alternative clues for the word bicycle
Word definitions for bicycle in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a car/lorry/bicycle etc tyre ▪ They sell and fit car tyres. bicycle frame ▪ a bicycle frame bicycle shorts COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE new ▪ Hire purchase was also available for new commodities such as bicycles ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A vehicle that has two 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. 2 A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs. 3 The best possible hand ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1868, coined from bi- "two" + Greek kyklos "circle, wheel" (see cycle (n.)), on the pattern of tricycle ; both the word and the vehicle superseding earlier velocipede . The English word probably is not from French, though often said to be (many French sources ...
Usage examples of bicycle.
The man was too awkward aiming, but he went instantly graceful when Rambo shot him, smoothly clutching his right shoulder, spinning easily, toppling perfectly over the bicycle next to the tool shed, and then he was awkward again as the bicycle gave way under him and the two jumbled to the ground in a tinny jangle of chain and spokes.
The man with all the pots and pans on his bicycle, the nun eating the baguette as she trundles along, the old woman shooing the geese, the businessman in his car eating a cake and attempting to look important.
It was a very confused bicycle and was shared by a man called Barbery with his wife and if you ever laid your eye on big Mrs.
The bicyclette had the pedals fixed to drive the back wheel by the ingenious use of a chain and sprocket wheel, and so was not, strictly speaking, a bicycle at all.
Stuart Buffin and his crony Miles, wild with joy at having carried the day, dashed for their bicycles.
Traffic streamed into town, cars and buses, but the most common vehicles were bicycles and matatus, the clapped-out minibuses discarded by the safari companies and now carrying as many as twenty-five passengers in spaces designed for eight.
Moon said when the cabbie parked in a lot occupied by scores of bicycles and a couple of dozen cars and trucks.
Pei then rode 25 miles on a bicycle to the Cenozoic Research Laboratory, where he presented the skull to Black.
Nyonya Cycler and her native clerk bumped the bicycle down the wooden steps between them.
Prosper Donge, on his bike, peacefully crossed the Bois de Boulogne, went over the Pont de Saint-Cloud, and got off his bicycle to walk up the steep road to his house.
We left Takai on Wednesday, I in my old friend the doolie, Boggley on his bicycle.
And the two of them sang the Bicycling Song, as Ern called it, at the tops of their voices, pedalling in strict time to the rhythm of the lines!
The bicycle ran truly and faultlessly beneath me, every part of her functioning with precision, her gentle saddle-springs giving unexceptionable consideration to my weight on the undulations of the road.
Since the total outlay was 135 percent, Calvin remedied the situation by letting the Mercedes be repossessed and buying a secondhand gearless Schwinn bicycle which he rode back and forth to work.
They were also the only two fish out of water since both were in civilian clothes and Gleed missed his uniform, Harrison felt naked without his bicycle.