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Definition of Ordinary bicycle
1. Noun. An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordinary Bicycle
Literary usage of Ordinary bicycle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"J. Osmond, whose feats upon the ordinary bicycle over all distances made him
worthy to be compared with Cortis at his best, especially in his wonderful ..."
2. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1917)
"plied to the ordinary bicycle, tricycle, or other similar machine in use at the
time of the passing of that Act. ihe justices were of opinion that the ..."
3. Cycling by William Coutts Keppel Albemarle (1901)
"The ordinary bicycle is dying out, though it is not altogether dead, because some
few ... The rider of the ordinary bicycle in pre-Safety days considered it ..."
4. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1903)
"The qat stion is whether an ordinary bicycle is chargeable with a toll of (id.
... Ii an ordinary bicycle a thing of the same nature as a sledge or drag ? ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"300 yds. in one For the next 20 years little was done, and then began the evolution
of the high " ordinary " bicycle with a large driving wheel in front and ..."
6. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1890)
"Ball Bearings. being given to almost any bicycle which differed in shape and
construction from the high or " ordinary " bicycle. The French still call the ..."
7. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1887)
"(1) The ordinary bicycle. (2) The rear-driving safety bicycle. ... The ordinary
bicycle will not find any great amount of favour in this connection. ..."
8. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell & Co, Cassell (London) (1896)
"Having traced tlie ordinary bicycle up to ite present position it is desirable
... The greatest difficulty in connection with ordinary bicycle riding is tho ..."
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