boneshaker
See also: bone-shaker
English
Noun
boneshaker (plural boneshakers)
- A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).
- Something jolty.
- The car was a real boneshaker.
- a boneshaker of a journey
- 1959 December, “Letters to the Editor: The riding of S.R. multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 628:
- As this was my third journey on these boneshakers I am beginning to think there must be some very serious fault in their design.
References
- “boneshaker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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