velocipede

Example Sentences

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He sped around town on an early bicycle called a velocipede.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Bike-adjacent inventions that roll atop train tracks have been known by many different names — handcar, draisine, kalamazoo and velocipede are just a few — since they first cropped up around the 1860s.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023

And between two wooden luggage carts from the late 1800s sits a railway velocipede, a three-wheeled handcar that was operated by pedals.

From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2020

Courtesy of the enormous front wheel, it was a racing machine - twice as fast as a velocipede.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2019

“Mr. Harley-Dickinson used the velocipede to run an errand, but there is a chance it may be stolen property, and now I fear he is being held by the authorities.”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood