Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as motor-cycle.

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Examples

  • The engine was in working order, and differed only very simply and obviously from that of a contemporary motor-bicycle.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • Bert met it one early-closing afternoon as he refreshed himself in an inn near Nutfield, whither his motor-bicycle had brought him.

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  • Bert sighed deeply, and turned to his motor-bicycle again.

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  • He was musing deeply by the mixed ironwork and ashes of his vanished motor-bicycle, a melancholy figure.

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  • Edna wore a brown straw hat with poppies, that suited her admirably, and sat in the trailer like a queen, and the eight-year-old motor-bicycle ran like a thing of yesterday.

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  • Bert sat on the low wall against which his motor-bicycle was leaning.

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  • For a time the possibilities of the motor-bicycle so occupied

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  • He had a motor-bicycle, and I sent him off next morning for the daily paper, which usually arrived with the post in the late afternoon.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

  • "In that circumstantial eventuality there can be no question of a motor-bicycle," he said.

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  • "In that circumstantial eventuality there can be no question of a motor-bicycle," he said.

    Omnium 2005

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