单词 | bicycle wheel |
释义 | > as lemmasbicycle wheel a. attributive. Designating a component part or accessory of a bicycle, as bicycle handlebar, bicycle saddle, bicycle seat, bicycle wheel, etc. ΚΠ 1869 Liverpool Mercury 25 Mar. 2/6 (advt.) Two bicycle wheels for Sale, well made, painted and varnished. 1875 Sporting Gaz. 24 July 730/3 (advt.) Bicycle Saddles, 5s. 6d. Every requisite for Bicycles at Boden's Depôt. 1892 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Press 27 July 3/2 He is the patentee and manufacturer of the well known Garford bicycle seat. 1920 E. Ferber Half Portions ix. 289 He rigged up a shelf-like device on his bicycle handlebars. 1947 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 28 Oct. 4/1 A Minnesota motorist..conceived the idea of covering bicycle frames with..a material used on reflectorized highway signs. 1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) xxv. 304 Among much else we owe the Scots are whisky, raincoats, rubber wellies, the bicycle pedal, the telephone, tarmac, penicillin [etc.]. 2007 New Yorker 26 Nov. 60/2 Why don't you get him that handcrafted Brooks bicycle seat he's desperate for? < as lemmas |
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