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boneshaker

[ UK /bˈə‍ʊnʃe‍ɪkɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable
    that old bike without rubber tires was a real boneshaker

How To Use boneshaker In A Sentence

  • It has lavish 1920s costumes and boneshaker cars. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's something of a boneshaker on the road but comes into its own on dirt tracks. Times, Sunday Times
  • that old bike without rubber tires was a real boneshaker
  • 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 Rover still had solid rubber tyres and the smaller wheels meant that it was still a boneshaker which required springs.
  • It's something of a boneshaker on the road but comes into its own on dirt tracks. Times, Sunday Times
  • He takes us from the French pushbike or draisine of 1816 through boneshakers and penny-farthings to the English velocipedes and the Humbers of the 1880s.
  • He takes us from the French pushbike or draisine of 1816 through boneshakers and penny-farthings to the English velocipedes of the 1880s.
  • The boneshaker was further refined by James Starley in the 1870's.
  • There were also the lovely old bikes, penny farthings and boneshakers being pedalled around.
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