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单词 dicycle
释义

dicyclen.

Brit. /ˈdʌɪsᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈdaɪsᵻk(ə)l/, /ˈdaɪˌsɪk(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: di- comb. form, bicycle n., tricycle n.
Etymology: < di- comb. form + -cycle (in bicycle n. or tricycle n.). Compare cycle n.2The following shows slightly earlier use of the same word form as a suggested alternative to bicycle n. (in order to avoid to the hybrid combination of elements of Latin and Greek origin in that word):1870 Belgravia Feb. 441 Bicycle should be either dicycle..or birota.
A pedal-powered vehicle with two large wheels placed parallel to one another, instead of being in line as in a bicycle; esp. a vehicle of the design devised by E. C. F. Otto (see Otto n.3).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > bicycle > early type of > with wheels side by side
Otto1879
dicycle1887
1887 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. Jan. 14/1 They will exhibit..a new tricycle, a new bicycle, and a dicycle on the lines of the ‘Otto’.
1892 Cycl. Tour. Club Handbk. 49 ‘Otto’ and other Dicycles, same rate as Tricycles.
1960 T. K. Derry & T. I. Williams Short Hist. Technol. (1961) ii. xiii. 391 The bicycle industry..spread to Coventry in 1869. Fifteen years later there were more than 200 varieties on the market, if we include tandems..as well as dicycles with two parallel wheels, tricycles, and even four-wheelers.
1970 J. Woodforde Story of Bicycle (1977) 66 The B.S.A. Company made about a thousand dicycles.
1990 U.S. Patent 4,973,071 1/2 When riding the dicycle, a turn can be accomplished easily by pulling a control rod and thereby raising a wheel from the ground.
2008 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (Nexis) 17 June b7 (caption) Second-graders watch Bob Swaim of Coopersburg demonstrate his ‘dicycle’, a bicycle with wheels on either side of the rider.

Derivatives

dicyclist n. Obsolete a person who rides a dicycle; cf. Ottoist n. at Otto n.3 Derivatives.
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1887 Viscount Bury & G. L. Hillier Cycling (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xiii. 373 It is probable that a strong body of dicyclists will be added to the classes into which wheelmen are now divided.
1887 Bicycling News 11 June 145/1 Mr. F. S. Hunwick, the well known Ottoist, has taken unto himself a wife. We wish the dicyclist every happiness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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