Crossword clues for boneshaker
Wiktionary
n. 1 A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s). 2 Something jolty.
WordNet
n. any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable; "that old bike without rubber tires was a real boneshaker"
Wikipedia
Boneshaker can refer to:
- Boneshaker (bicycle)
- Boneshaker (novel), by Cherie Priest
Boneshaker is a science fiction novel by Cherie Priest which combines the steampunk genre with zombies in an alternate history version of Seattle, Washington. It was nominated for the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel. It won the 2010 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Boneshaker was a Mondial Supernova located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. It was removed in 2003 because it was unreliable and the park needed space to build their new roller coaster for 2005, Rita: Queen of Speed. It first opened in the park being a really thrilling ride but was tamed over the years.
Usage examples of "boneshaker".
Nallis and I got together and played a joke on them, dumped a load of phosphors on the head boneshaker, he was getting uppity anyway, you should have seen it, how they turned on him and .
Then there was a boneshaker impact, a damp thud, and they were disorientatingly, motionless.
One or two pleasant pieces of china and a vast amount of worthless material, an ancient boneshaker and a miscellaneous collection of swords and early sporting guns were heaped upon one another with the profusion of a second-hand shop.
There was an ice cream store that was open on Sundays fourteen blocks away from where we lived, and about ten days before the Klarri lifeboats came showering in from the sky, this kid and I had gone to that ice cream store, with me on my Sears, Roebuck three-speed and him on that boneshaker of his.