What is "tumblebug"

Usage examples of "tumblebug".

The first two hundred yards of Sacramento Sector passed without incident, then one of the skirmishers sighted a tumblebug parked by a rotor.

The first two hundred yards of the Sacramento Sector passed without incident, then one of the skirmishers sighted a tumblebug parked by a rotor.

Now, why should the bucket of a hydraulic tumblebug be covered with canvas?

He was somersaulting again, like a giant tumblebug, this time in the middle of the street.

Sacramento Sector passed without incident, then one of the skirmishers sighted a tumblebug parked by a rotor.

A tumblebug does not give a man dignity, since it is about the size and shape of a kitchen stool, gyro-stabilized on a single wheel.

Each squad is to form a skirmish line across down inside, mounted on tumblebugs, and will proceed north at fifteen miles per hour.

Gaines and Harvey mounted tumblebugs, and kept abreast of the cadet captain, some twenty-five yards behind the leading wave.

When the arrangements for the new marching order were completed, he signed the cadet captain to go ahead, and the first and second waves started off together at the top speed of which the tumblebugs were capablenot quite eighteen miles per hour.

It would have been the same if I had demanded tumblebugs or crocodiles.

Gaines and Harvey mounted tumblebugs, and kept abreast of the Cadet Captain, some twenty-five yards behind the leading wave.

Harvey mounted tumblebugs, and kept abreast of the Cadet Captain, some twenty-five yards behind the leading wave.

Cadet Captain to go ahead, and the first and second waves started off together at the top speed of which the tumblebugs were capable - not quite eighteen miles per hour.

The Three Kea tons, the Tumblebug Family, with a family photograph, a smiling very voun g Buster in the middle.