velocipede

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The illustrations and descriptions we give this week, entitled "How to Break a Cord," "Prestidigitation," "Circle Divider," "Sulphurous Acid," "Production of Gas," "Aquatic Velocipede," "Several Toys," "Scientific Amusements," are from our excellent contemporary La Nature.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 by Various

That's young Velocipede, and that's Chiffney a-ridin' him.

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry

"Where is the headquarters of the Augsburg Velocipede Club?"

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas

Velocipede, vē-los′i-pēd, n. a light vehicle originally moved by striking the toes on the road, now with a treadle—its developments are the bicycle and tricycle.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

He's never balky, he eats no hay, He's ready to either go or stay, And never was known to run away— This good horse Velocipede.

From A Jolly Jingle-Book by Chandler, Laura