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dandy-horses

dandy-horses is the plural of dandy-horse.

Meaning of dandy-horse

Noun

dandy-horse (plural dandy-horses)

  1. (UK, historical) A two-wheeled foot-propelled vehicle with no pedals or brakes; a draisienne.
    • In 1817 and in 1818, France and Germany both claimed they had come up with the first mechanism for a bike. It was a piece of wood with a wheel at one end and a wheel at the other, and you walked it along. In England, they called it a dandy horse.1998 November 29, Eric Epstein, “A Passion for Old Bicycles Spun Into a Museum”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 May 2014

Questions about dandy-horses

What is dandy-horses the plural of?
Dandy-horses is the plural of dandy-horse.

Words near dandy-horses in the dictionary

  1. dandy stick
  2. dandy sticks
  3. dandy up
  4. dandy's stick
  5. dandy-horse
  6. dandy-horses
  7. dandy-roll
  8. dandy-roller
  9. dandy-rollers
  10. dandy-rolls
  11. Dandy-Walker malformation

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