Velocipede: alternatives and connections

A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against…

An obscure road; a way turning from the main road.

A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver…

A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a…

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…

A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.

A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.

A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box…

A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a s…

A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir,…

A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by t…

Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vesse…

Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, t…

A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.

The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.

To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or…

To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the hor…