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bone-shaker

bone-shaker is the alternative spelling of boneshaker.

Meaning of boneshaker

Noun

boneshaker (plural boneshakers)

  1. A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).
    • The man named Honeysett had ridden off on an old boneshaker of his to fetch the engines.1905, E. Nesbit, “The arsenicators”, in Oswald Bastable and Others
  2. Something jolty.
    • a boneshaker of a journey

Forms of bone-shaker

pluralbone-shakers

Questions about bone-shaker

What is bone-shaker the alternative spelling of?
Bone-shaker is the alternative spelling of boneshaker.

Words near bone-shaker in the dictionary

  1. bone-ons
  2. bone-picker
  3. bone-pickers
  4. bone-seeker
  5. bone-seekers
  6. bone-shaker
  7. bone-shakers
  8. bone-shaking
  9. bone-shakingly
  10. bone-straight
  11. bone-tired

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