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Definition of Boneshaker
1. Noun. Any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable. "That old bike without rubber tires was a real boneshaker"
Definition of Boneshaker
1. Noun. A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s). ¹
2. Noun. Something jolty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boneshaker
Literary usage of Boneshaker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1897)
"This was succeeded by the boneshaker, the invention of which was attributed to
Pierre Lallement, about the year 1864. This was the first s >rt of bicycle to ..."
2. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell (London) (1896)
"THE boneshaker OF 1869. It was a fearful thing when one thinks of it. In outward
shape it somewhat resembled the Safety of to-day, but in actual mechanism ..."
3. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"... did away with much of the terrible vibration which had earned for the first
bicycle its nickname of " boneshaker." Simultaneously the size of the front ..."
4. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1902)
"Notwithstanding this, however, it seems to have found favour with the public,
who very rightly christened it the " boneshaker. ..."
5. Hyde Park, Its History and Romance by Alec-Tweedie (Ethel), Ethel Brilliana Harley Tweedie (1908)
"Bicycles rapidly evolved from the old " boneshaker," with wooden wheels and ...
The " boneshaker " was itself an offspring of the earlier " hobby-horse" on ..."
6. The Marvels of Modern Mechanism and Their Relations to Social Betterment by Jerome Bruce Crabtree (1901)
"From "The boneshaker" to Pneumatic Tires. In 1855 Ernst Michaux, a French inventor,
... From 1866 until 1870 the "boneshaker," as it came to be called, ..."
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