Definition of boneshaker in English:

boneshaker

nounˈbəʊnʃeɪkə

British informal

1An old vehicle with poor suspension.
a boneshaker of a van
Example sentencesExamples
- A cleaned up adaptation of a Steinbeck novel, this centres on Sweetheart, a boneshaker of a bus rattling over the 'washboard roads' of Southern California.
- We fly to Iasi, a remote university town in the north-east of Romania, on a tiny bone-shaker of a plane with propellers.
- It is possible to blow huge amounts of money on car modifications, ruining your automobile and ending up with a fuel drinking stodgy bone shaker.
- The Rover still had solid rubber tyres and the smaller wheels meant that it was still a boneshaker which required springs.
- Nestled in green mountains, the tiny village of Jima is reached by a crowded, bone-shaker bus via an ochre-hued rollercoaster dirt road.
- An old boneshaker of a car was tearing along the Chicago-Cleveland highway at an incredible speed.
1. 1.1 An early type of bicycle without rubber tyres.
  Example sentencesExamples
  By 1863, attaching cranks and pedals to the front wheel of the hobby horse had produced the velocipede, commonly known as the boneshaker.
  There were also the lovely old bikes, penny farthings and boneshakers being pedalled around.
  Old Chinese boneshaker bicycles can be hired for a pittance, and the area is less hilly than much of Xishuangbanna.
  He takes us from the French pushbike of 1816 through boneshakers and penny-farthings to the English velocipedes and the Humbers of the 1880s.
  The boneshaker was further refined by James Starley in the 1870's.

单词	boneshaker
释义	Definition of boneshaker in English: boneshaker nounˈbəʊnʃeɪkə British informal 1An old vehicle with poor suspension. a boneshaker of a van Example sentencesExamples A cleaned up adaptation of a Steinbeck novel, this centres on Sweetheart, a boneshaker of a bus rattling over the 'washboard roads' of Southern California. We fly to Iasi, a remote university town in the north-east of Romania, on a tiny bone-shaker of a plane with propellers. It is possible to blow huge amounts of money on car modifications, ruining your automobile and ending up with a fuel drinking stodgy bone shaker. The Rover still had solid rubber tyres and the smaller wheels meant that it was still a boneshaker which required springs. Nestled in green mountains, the tiny village of Jima is reached by a crowded, bone-shaker bus via an ochre-hued rollercoaster dirt road. An old boneshaker of a car was tearing along the Chicago-Cleveland highway at an incredible speed. 1.1 An early type of bicycle without rubber tyres. Example sentencesExamples By 1863, attaching cranks and pedals to the front wheel of the hobby horse had produced the velocipede, commonly known as the boneshaker. There were also the lovely old bikes, penny farthings and boneshakers being pedalled around. Old Chinese boneshaker bicycles can be hired for a pittance, and the area is less hilly than much of Xishuangbanna. He takes us from the French pushbike of 1816 through boneshakers and penny-farthings to the English velocipedes and the Humbers of the 1880s. The boneshaker was further refined by James Starley in the 1870's.
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