单词 | water-cycle |
释义 | water-cyclen.1 Any of various pedal-powered vehicles designed to travel on water.Formerly used esp. of a vehicle consisting of a bicycle frame mounted on pontoons, with paddles driven by the pedals. ΚΠ 1885 Boy's Own Paper 28 Feb. 350/3 The new form of water-cycle is thus not so difficult of construction as it may at first sight appear. 1901 Referee 14 Apr. 1 The..water-cycle trio made a record. 1920 Mercury (Hobart) 18 Oct. 5/3 Harold Rigby cycled from Calais to Dover..on a water-cycle of his own design. 1965 U.S. Patent 3,257,987 (heading) Portable, foldable and collapsible water cycle. 2011 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. 1 The American-made watercycle..is a leap ahead in technology from the traditional ‘pedalo’ or pedal-boat found on lakes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). water-cyclev. rare. intransitive. To travel by means of a water-cycle. ΚΠ 1930 Daily Express 6 Nov. 2/2 Reni Savard..left Calais..yesterday to water-cycle across the Channel. 2011 National (Abu Dhabi) (Nexis) 4 July Zetta Hills..hit the headlines in the 1920s when she tried to ‘watercycle’ across the English Channel. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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