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Definition of Draisine
1. an old bicycle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Draisine
Literary usage of Draisine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"The track-master who rode with him on the draisine replied: "Vasili ... The workmen
leaned upon the handles and the draisine flew farther. ..."
2. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"This machine, which was named "draisine," after the inventor, and was exhibited
and patented in Franco shortly afterward, is claimed to have been the ..."
3. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"The draisine was a signal improvement, and appears to have been the first of all
self-propelled machines on two wheels. Its invention is attributed to Baron ..."
4. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"In it Bettina makes a passing allusion to Herr von Drais and his experiments with
a draisine, " a kind of seat with wheels, which Herr von Drais moves along ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"1855, one M. Michaux, a carriage-repairer in Paris, brought out a machine not
unlike the draisine, but having cranks and pedals fitted to the front wheels. ..."
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