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Definition of Push-bike

1. Noun. A bicycle that must be pedaled.

Definition of Push-bike

1. Noun. (context: AU NZ UK) a pedal bicycle -- distinguished from a motor bicycle ¹

2. Verb. (context: AU NZ UK) to travel by pedal cycle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Push-bike

Literary usage of Push-bike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782-1901) by George Macaulay Trevelyan (1922)
"Before motor-cars in the new century swept the unfortunate ' push-bike' off the high road, it had been a principal means of popular enjoyment, ..."

2. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"To 1902 belong the first illustrations of the motor-bicycle and of "trailers " attached to the "push-bike." Breakdowns and the wearisomeness of motoring ..."

3. The Book of History: A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times to the by James Bryce Bryce, Holland Thompson, William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1920)
"Kadel and Herbert been set aside for the bicycle or "push- bike." And a new weapon was being produced with great rapidity—the "bombarda," a sort of ..."

4. The Man who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston (1921)
"... hay crops in an adjacent field, to the green corn beaten to the earth and to a collision between a motor cyclist and a push- bike on the Bath Road. ..."

5. The Man who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1921)
"... hay crops in an adjacent field, to the green corn beaten to the earth and to a collision between a motor cyclist and a push- bike on the Bath Road. ..."

6. Vestigia, Reminiscences of Peace and War by Charles à Court Repington (1919)
"I rode a push-bike with a 52-inch front wheel. We had, of course, some dreadful outsiders amongst us, as could scarcely be prevented in an open competition. ..."

7. West Africa the Elusive by Alan Bourchier Lethbridge (1921)
"... roads have been constructed on a scale which is simply unparalleled, and it is perfectly feasible to ride an ordinary "push-bike" for many miles around ..."

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