boneshaker

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English

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noun

A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).

noun

"The man named Honeysett had ridden off on an old boneshaker of his to fetch the engines."
"a boneshaker of a journey"
"The car was a real boneshaker."
"As this was my third journey on these boneshakers I am beginning to think there must be some very serious fault in their design."

From bone + shaker, from the uncomfortableness of the ride.

boneshakers (plural)

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