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dicycle|ˈdaɪsɪk(ə)l|
[f. di-2 + Gr. κύκλος wheel, cycle. (A more regularly formed word than the hybrid bicycle.)]
The name given to a form of velocipede in which the two wheels are parallel to each other, instead of being in the same line as in a bicycle.
[1870Belgravia Feb. 441 Bicycle should be either dicycle..or birota.] 1887Cycl. Tour. Club Gaz. Jan. 14/1 They will exhibit..a new tricycle, a new bicycle, and a dicycle on the lines of the ‘Otto.’ 1892Cycl. Tour. Club Handbk. 49 ‘Otto’ and other Dicycles, same rate as Tricycles.
Hence ˈdicyclist, one who rides a dicycle.
1887Bicycling News 11 June 145/1. |