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† ˈmonotroch Obs.
Also -troche.
[ad. Gr. µονότροχ-ος one-wheeled (car), f. µόνο-ς mono- + τροχός wheel.]
A vehicle with only one wheel.
1807Sporting Mag. XXIX 66 A most curious sort of gig called a Monotroche from its having only one wheel was exhibited in Bond Street, the 24th inst. 1825Moore Sheridan I. 22 Ixion..instead of being fixed to a torturing wheel, was to have been fixed to a vagrant monotroche, as knife-grinder. 1828Scott Aunt Marg. Mirror (Init.), These monotrochs [jocularly = wheelbarrows]. |