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- noun Plural form of
bone-shaker .
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Examples
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Old bone-shakers, they were; wooden wheels and a solid wrought iron backbone.
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Hugh stood before an old coloured print representing the hobby-horse school -- the days of the "bone-shakers" -- and studied it.
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On certain weekends in the summer it is clogged with crocodiles of puttering bone-shakers from this or that owners 'club, driven by men in goggles and women in headscarves.
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