draisinen.
/dɪeɪˈziːn/ The earliest form of bicycle; = dandy-horse n.
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1818 Liverpool Mercury 24 Apr. Experiments with Draisiennes (a species of carriage moved by machinery without horses).
1879 Literary World (Boston) 30 Aug. 275/3 One of its [the velocipede's] rudimentary forms was ‘the draisine’, a cumbersome machine invented by Baron Von Drais, of Mannheim on the Rhine..The improved draisine soon reached America.
1884 Longman's Mag. Mar. 485 The dandy-horse, hobby or draisnene, was a two-wheeled vehicle.
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