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boneshaker

noun

Etymology

From bone + shaker, from the uncomfortableness of the ride.

  1. compounded as boneshaker — “bone + shaker”

Definitions

  1. A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).

    • The man named Honeysett had ridden off on an old boneshaker of his to fetch the engines.

  2. Something jolty.

    • a boneshaker of a journey
    • The car was a real boneshaker.
    • As this was my third journey on these boneshakers I am beginning to think there must be some very serious fault in their design.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA