velocipeden.
/vᵻˈlɒsᵻpiːd/, U.S. /vəˈlɑsəˌpid/ Now Historical.
1. † b. A kind of roller-skate. Obsolete.
a. = dandy-horse n., hobby n.1 4, hobby-horse n. 5. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > by feet pushing on ground
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1818 W. Sewall Diary 19 June (1930) 53/2 Then I went to the circus and rode on the velocipede, which is a new machine.
1819 Monthly Mag. Mar. 156 A machine called the Velocipede, or Swift Walker. Invented by Baron Drais and patented in England by Denis Johnson, coachmaker, of Long Acre, in 1818.
1819 J. Keats Lett. (1895) 300 The nothing of the day is a machine called the velocipede. It is a wheel carriage to ride cock-horse upon, sitting astride and pushing it along with the toes, a rudder-wheel in hand.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 209 He never proceeded with his machine at a greater rate than five miles an hour, and yet named it Velocipede.
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 242/1 The horse will take longer steps, and longer springs or leaps,..in the same way as a man upon a velocipede.
1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > roller-skating > [noun] > roller-skate
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roller skate1860
wheel-skate1870
skate1876
Rollerblade1985
1825 Mechanics' Mag. 5 79 A Velocipede intended to be fixed on one foot;..the velocipedestrian pushes himself away with the other.
2. A travelling-machine having wheels turned by the pressure of the feet upon pedals; esp. an early form of the bicycle or tricycle, a ‘bone-shaker’. Now rare. (Quot. 1852 may belong to sense 1.)
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1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iv. 497/2 Velocipede, a carriage which is capable of being propelled along a road by the muscular power of the rider acting upon treadles and levers which communicate with a cranked wheel axle.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 255/1 Velocipede, consisting of three wheels.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxxi. 396 He is riding a miserable rat of a badly-clipped, mouse-coloured pony, that looks like a velocipede under him.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 126 The unprecedented reaction is moving on with the swiftness of a velocipede.
1886 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. IV. 146 Bicycles, tricycles, and other velocipedes.
1886 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. IV. 149 Every cyclist using a velocipede.
3. transferred.
a. Applied to persons.
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1822 New Monthly Mag. 6 344/2 In the Ballet we have nothing new to report. M. Paul, a true velocipede, continues to electrify the astonished spectators.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. i. 16 He's a worthy little velocipede, as Fenellan calls him.
b. A swift-moving vehicle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > [noun] > swift vehicle
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1838 Blackwood's Mag. 43 340 Stage-coaches..were not the velocipedes that they now are.
1842 R. Ford in S. Smiles Publisher & Friends (1891) II. 491 I read Borrow with great delight all the way down per rail, and it shortened the rapid flight of that velocipede.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as velocipede carriage, velocipede-crank, velocipede traffic, velocipede velocity, velocipede-wise adv.
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1819 Gentleman's Mag. 89 i. 423 With our heavy population, Velocipede carriages may hereafter be substituted..worked by two or more men.
1839 Blackwood's Mag. 46 39 The rush of waiters hurrying with velocipede velocity in opposite directions.
1869 H. Bushnell Women's Suffrage viii. 178 He sings velocipede-wise, turning the crank himself.
1870 Belgravia Feb. 444 A paddle-wheel..furnished with velocipede-cranks.
Derivatives
velociˈpedean n. = velocipedist n.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > cyclist > on velocipede
velocipeder1819
velocipedist1820
velocipedean1842
velocipedian1869
1842 W. Howitt Visits to Remarkable Places 2nd Ser. 431 He was a very adroit Velocipedean.
1869 Daily News 9 Mar. As the bicycles gained the open country the velocipedeans began to work in earnest.
veˈlocipeder n. = velocipedist n.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > cyclist > on velocipede
velocipeder1819
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velocipedian1869
1819 Sporting Mag. 4 39 A Velocipeder presented himself at a turnpike, and demanded, ‘What's to pay?’
velocipeˈdestrian adj. and n. (a) adj. = velocipedic adj.; (b) n. one who uses a velocipede (see sense 1b above).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [adjective] > of or relating to cycles > of or relating to bicycle > relating to early type of
velocipedal1868
velocipedestrian1869
velocipedic1892
1869 Sci. Amer. 13 Feb. 101 The votaries of Velocipedestrian Science.
velocipeˈdestrianism n. the practice of using the velocipede.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > riding a velocipede
velocipedestrianism1869
velocipeding1869
1869 Sci. Amer. 9 Jan. 25 Velocipedestrianism, a word coined for the times, is easier to learn than skating.
1869 Echo 3 Dec. The invention of the crank-axled machine gave a great impulse to velocipedestrianism.
velociˈpedian n. = velocipedist n.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > cyclist > on velocipede
velocipeder1819
velocipedist1820
velocipedean1842
velocipedian1869
1869 Velocipede (N.Y.) Apr. 20 A velocipedian, after a fair amount of experience, finds himself..at home astride his two-wheeler.
velociˈpedic adj. of or pertaining to velocipedes.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [adjective] > of or relating to cycles > of or relating to bicycle > relating to early type of
velocipedal1868
velocipedestrian1869
velocipedic1892
1892 Times 21 Apr. 5/5 Dr. Mussy, spokesman of the Velocipedic Union, dwelt on the advantages of cycling to school-boys, tourists, and soldiers.
veˈlocipeding n. the action or practice of using a velocipede.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > riding a velocipede
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1869 Velocipede (N.Y.) Apr. 21 Velocipeding is a hopeful sign of progress.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 109 Just like that velocipeding and Danube-boating at Pesth!
veˈlocipedist n. [ < French vélocipédiste] one who rides a velocipede.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > cyclist > on velocipede
velocipeder1819
velocipedist1820
velocipedean1842
velocipedian1869
1820 J. F. L. Williams Hist. Acct. Inventions & Discov. II. 486 The rest afforded to the velocipedist between his steps which set the machine in motion, enables him to proceed much quicker.
1868 London Society Nov. 408 The velocipedists have stolen a march on the coming flying man.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Apr. 10/2 The ‘St. Petersburg Society of Amateur Velocipedists’.
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