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Definition of Backpedalling
1. backpedal [v] - See also: backpedal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backpedalling
Literary usage of Backpedalling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bicycles & Tricycles: An Elementary Treatise on Their Design and by Archibald Sharp (1896)
"... rigidly fixed to the frame ; the header being caused either by the application
of the brake to the front wheel, or by backpedalling in a Front-driver. ..."
2. Bicycles & tricycles: an elementary treatise on their design and by Archibald Sharp (1896)
"... rigidly fixed to the frame; the header being caused either by the application
of the brake to the front wheel, or by backpedalling in a Front-driver. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"A locking-ring R with a left-hand thread, screwed tight against tW chain-wheel,
prevents the latter from being unscrewed by backpedalling. ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1899)
"ROSE (exploding). Dad isn't dashing— not much. You should see him backpedalling
down our hills. I always have to wait for him at the bottom. MR. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"... the Linley expanding chain wheel (or Protean gear) is very clever and effective,
but involves the necessity of a brake, as backpedalling is impossible. ..."
6. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1896)
"After going about three miles, backpedalling hard all the time (we dare not use
the brakes except in emergency, as the rubber was completely worn out), ..."
7. An Introduction to Logic by Horace William Brindley Joseph (1906)
"... the bearings of the head, the pedal-bearings, the clutch, the backpedalling
break, and the saddle-springs. All that the rider has to do is to ascertain ..."
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