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boneshakers

boneshakers is the plural 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

Questions about boneshakers

What is boneshakers the plural of?
Boneshakers is the plural of boneshaker.

Words near boneshakers in the dictionary

  1. bonesets
  2. bonesetter
  3. bonesetters
  4. bonesetting
  5. boneshaker
  6. boneshakers
  7. boneshaking
  8. Bonesman
  9. bonesmashing
  10. Bonesmen
  11. bonespo

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