biken.1
/bʌɪk/, U.S. /baɪk/ northern dialect.† 4. ? ‘A building, a habitation.’ Jamieson. Obsolete. (But the quotation may mean ‘populous centre,’ or ‘swarm of men.’)† 5. (See quot. 1771) Obsolete or local.
1. A nest of wasps, hornets, or wild bees, as distinct from the hive or skep of domestic bees. Also, the whole nestful of bees; a swarm.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > nest
wasp's nestc1386
bikea1400
vespiary1817
bink1824
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > swarm of bees > hived swarm
bikea1400
hivec1430
stall1505
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 76 Suetter..þan hony o bike.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxxi. 429 Wormes shall in you brede As bees dos in the byke.
a1500 MS. Cott. Calig. A. ij. 109 (Halliw.) A byke of waspes bredde in his nose.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xii. vii. f. 176v/2 Ane tod was ouirset with ane byke of fleis.
a1758 A. Ramsay Poems (1844) 89 Like bumbees frae their bykes.
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 194 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 563 As bees bizz out wi' angry fyke, When plundering herds assail their byke.
1883 W. Black Black Bothy v They had thoroughly dug out that wasps' byke.
2. figurative. A place likened to a bees' nest, e.g. a subterranean retreat or ‘hole,’ a well-filled storehouse.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > cave or underground dwelling
earth houseeOE
cavec1220
bikea1522
mattamore1695
subterranean1714
subterrane1759
yurt1780
weem1792
subterrene1793
ice cave1810
gibber-gunyah1847
dugout1855
fogou1864
abri1887
pit house1907
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. iv. 26 Ȝone fendlich hole..A hellis byke, quhar sonnys beme nevir schane.
1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 293 (Jam.) Nocht but a house-wife was wantin' To plenish his weel foggit byke.
3. figurative. Applied contemptuously to a swarm of people; a teeming crowd, a ‘crew’.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous
weredc725
herec855
heap971
trumec1380
multitudea1382
herda1400
swarm1423
confluence1447
puissance?a1475
army?1518
multitudine1547
bike1554
conflux1702
snarl1775
rallya1794
populace1823
hive1834
skreeda1838
skit1913
rort1941
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 5803 in Wks. (1931) I In that court sall cum mony one Off the blak byik of Babilone.
?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 206 The glowran byke.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 282 A bike o' the maist lawless unchristian limmers that ever disturbed a douce, quiet..neighbourhood.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 312 A bonny bike there's o' them!
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun]
houseeOE
homeOE
houseOE
roofa1382
housinga1400
bike1508
dwelling-house1530
firehouse1530
standing house?1532
mansion house1533
maisonc1540
beinga1616
smoke-housea1687
drum1846
khazi1846
casa1859
shack1910
kipsie1916
machine for living (in)1927
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii Mony burgh mony bour mony big bike Mony kynrik to his clame cumly to knaw.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick
moweOE
rickeOE
pease-ricka1325
stackc1330
tassc1330
rucka1382
hayrick14..
haystack14..
sedge reekc1440
hay-mow1483
hay-goaf1570
rack1574
hovel1591
scroo1604
mow-stack1611
sow1659
corn-rick1669
bean-rick1677
barley-mow1714
pea rick1766
rickle1768
bike1771
stacklet1796
bean-stack1828
1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. (1794) 202 The corn is thrashed out and preserved in the chaff in bykes, which are stacks in shape of bee-hives, thatched quite round.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
biken.2
/bʌɪk/, U.S. /baɪk/ colloquial.
1. A bicycle.Recorded earliest in bike literature n. at Compounds 1b.exercise, mountain, pedal, push-, racing, road bike, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > bicycle
bicycle1868
steed1877
bike1880
jigger1897
push-cycle1905
push bicycle1906
pushbike1910
grid1922
mangle1941
recumbent1968
MTB1988
1880 Cyclist & Bicycling & Tricycling Trades Rev. 29 Dec. 100/1 We can conscientiously recommend it as an excellent shillingsworth of ‘bike’ and ‘trike’ literature.
1881 Wheel World July 137 ‘Sociables’ also recommend themselves to newly married bicyclists..hesitating between the love of wife and love of bike.
1897 National Rev. Jan. 788 Those who have suffered [due to cycling] conceal the fact..from the doctor, for fear of being forbidden their ‘beloved bikes’.
1920 Boys' Life May 61/3 (advt.) How'd you like to own the finest bike in all cycledom..? Think of the fun of whizzing down the road on this dazzling new Black Beauty.
1984 I. Banks Wasp Factory 72 Mrs Clamp was..unloading the huge wicker hopper on the front of her ancient bike.
2005 Country Living Apr. (Enjoy Britain's Waterscape Advt. Suppl.) 10/1 If your old rattler isn't up to towpath cycling, you can hire bikes from..waterside cycling centres.
2. A motorcycle; = motorbike n.dirt, mini-, mo-, scrambler, trail bike, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun]
bus1881
motor bicycle1894
motorcycle1894
autocycle1895
motorbike1895
bike1903
mo-bike1925
noddy1964
scoot1968
chop1970
chopper1985
1903 Automobile Topics 23 May 348 Going over Niagara in a barrel would seem like child's play in comparison to taking the road on a bike ahead of that mob of tearing big machines [i.e. cars].
1924 T. E. Lawrence Let. 3 Mar. in J. Dunbar Mrs. G.B.S. (1963) xvii. 269 The bike was raw & new, a man-killer. I'm afraid to death of it.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xiii. 224 Dad's favourite manoeuvre..was to..gun the bike roaring down the front path.
1973 P. Dickinson Gift ix. 142 Ian got into his leathers, Davy put on two extra layers of clothing, the bike started first kick.
2008 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 3 Sept. 2 The bike went up in flames and two fire engines..attended.
3. slang (originally Australian). derogatory. A woman regarded as promiscuous; a slut.From the notion of ‘riding’: see the etymology. Often with modifying word, as office, village, etc. See also town bike n. at town n. Compounds 1b.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman
queanOE
whorec1175
malkinc1275
wenchelc1300
ribalda1350
strumpeta1350
wench1362
filtha1375
parnelc1390
sinner14..
callet1415
slut?c1425
tickle-tailc1430
harlot?a1475
mignote1489
kittock?a1500
mulea1513
trulla1516
trully?1515
danta1529
miswoman1528
stewed whore1532
Tib1533
unchaghe1534
flag1535
Katy1535
jillet1541
yaud1545
housewife1546
trinkletc1550
whippet1550
Canace1551
filthy1553
Jezebel1558
kittyc1560
loonc1560
laced mutton1563
nymph1563
limmer1566
tomboy1566
Marian1567
mort1567
cockatrice1568
franion1571
blowze1573
rannell1573
rig1575
Kita1577
poplet1577
light-skirts1578
pucelle1578
harlotry1584
light o' lovea1586
driggle-draggle1588
wagtail1592
tub-tail1595
flirt-gill1597
minx1598
hilding1599
short-heels1599
bona-roba1600
flirt1600
Hiren1600
light-heels1602
roba1602
baggage1603
cousin1604
fricatrice1607
rumbelow1611
amorosa1615
jaya1616
open-taila1618
succubus1622
snaphancea1625
flap1631
buttered bun1638
puffkin1639
vizard1652
fallen woman1659
tomrigg1662
cunt1663
quaedama1670
jilt1672
crack1677
grass-girl1691
sporting girl1694
sportswoman1705
mobbed hood1707
brim1736
trollop1742
trub1746
demi-rep1749
gillyflower1757
lady of easy virtue1766
mot1773
chicken1782
gammerstang1788
buer1807
scarlet woman1816
blowen1819
fie-fie1820
shickster?1834
streel1842
charver1846
trolly1854
bad girl1855
amateur1862
anonyma1862
demi-virgin1864
pickup1871
chippy1885
wish-wife1886
tart1887
tartleta1890
flossy1893
fly girl1893
demi-mondaine1894
floozy1899
slattern1899
scrub1900
demi-vierge1908
cake1909
coozie1912
muff1914
tarty1918
yes-girl1920
radge1923
bike1945
puta1948
messer1951
cooze1955
jamette1965
skeezer1986
slutbag1987
chickenhead1988
ho1988
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 123 A willing girl is sometimes described as an office bike, a town bike, etc.
1965 L. Haylen Big Red 186 The Socialist..whose wife now had openly become the ‘village bike’.
1971 B. Humphries Bazza pulls it Off What an ugly old bike. I wouldn't ride her for practice.
1993 T. Hawkins Pepper xi. 231 Now her skin's cleared, the condescending bike really reckons she's something.
2011 Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 25/5 Holli Dempsey is both funny and touching as the school bike, Karris.
Phrases
P1. Australian and New Zealand colloquial. to get off one's bike: (usually in negative contexts) to get annoyed or angry. Frequently as imperative, as don't get off your bike.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > be or become irritated [verb (intransitive)]
enchafec1380
fume and chafec1522
chafe1525
to fret and fume1551
rankle1582
to lose patience, one's temper1622
pique1664
to have no patience with1682
ruffle1719
to be out of the way (with)1740
echinate1792
nettle1810
to get one's dander up1831
to set up one's jay-feathers1880
hackle1935
to get off one's bike1939
1939 X. Herbert Capricornia (new ed.) xxxiv. 521 ‘I tell you I saw no-one.’ ‘Don't get off your bike, son. I know you're tellin' lies.’
1943 J. A. W. Bennett in Amer. Speech 18 90 ‘Don't get off your bike’ (from ‘don't get off your horse’, via a music-hall song?) means ‘don't get rattled, excited’.
1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now vii. iii. 341 Getting off his bike like that isn't going to do his pub any good though, I reckon.
2002 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 18 June 8 Don't get off your bike, little Johnnie; I'll pick up the pump!
P2. (get) on your bike and variants: get moving, take action; (hence) go away, ‘push off’, ‘get lost’.The phrase is often inaccurately attributed to the Employment Secretary, Norman Tebbit, as advice to unemployed people to travel in order to find work, following inner-city riots in 1981 which were linked to unemployment. His actual words were ‘My father didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.’
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupied or busy [phrase] > injunction to busy oneself
(get) on your bike1948
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [phrase]
here lies our way1609
go scrape!1611
off (with you)!1809
on your way1865
twenty-three skidoo1926
(get) on your bike1980
1948 Amarillo (Texas) Daily News 23 Oct. 4/3 Quick, get on your bike! Take this scandalous thing to the Court Supreme.
1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons ii. xi. 219 ‘On your bike then, son,’ one of the policemen told him… He couldn't take any pictures of that particular building.
1983 Economist 22 Oct. 25 He ‘got on his bike’ and looked for work. ‘On yer bike, Tebbit!’ became the slogan of right-to-work marchers.
1996 G. P. Daly Homeless vii. 137 A leading cabinet member..advised young people that the solution to their employment problems was simply to ‘get on your bike’.
2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 21 Mar. 3 The moment I found out I'd say, 'Right, that's it. On your bike mate!' And he would be straight out that door with all his things.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive and objective in senses 1 and (occasionally) 2, as bike race, bike repair, etc.
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1888 Wisconsin State Reg. 13 Oct. 1/9 (headline) A close 5-mile ‘bike’ race.
1923 Mirror (Perth, Austral.) 21 July 7/6 (advt.) For bike repairs, enamelling, tyres, tubes and accessories, electrical installations, etc.
1985 Off our Backs 15 26/1 Women's school will have a variety of classes this May from bike repair to activism to feminist journalism.
2004 C. Williamson Vehicle Maintenance for Women 76 Many accidents are caused by bad bike maintenance.
2011 Independent 18 Mar. (Viewspaper section) 11/1 Bike design and componentry are now objects of serious—in some cases obsessive—study.
b.
bike club n.
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1882 Wheel World Feb. 155 The Eastern suburban ‘bike’ and ‘trike’ clubs who amalgamated under the title of the Essex are going ahead with plenty of vitality.
1939 Boys' Life June 31/3 (advt.) Learn how to be an expert rider, run races, form bike clubs.
2003 J. P. Partland & J. Gibson Mountain Bike Madness 41/2 Get some expert advice before trying new trails. Visit a bike shop, find a nearby bike club, [etc.].
bike literature n.
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1880Bike literature [see sense 1].
2003 Contra Costa Times (Calif.) (Nexis) 14 May a3 As incentives, volunteers will hand out fruit, water, energy bars and bike literature at scores of ‘energizer stations’.
bike rack n.
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1898 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 18 Nov. 10/6 He saw the wheel returned to the bike rack at the restaurant.
1942 N.Y. Times 12 July ix. 4 xx/4 At Easton's Beach it has been necessary to enlarge the bike racks two or three times since the season opened.
2011 E. Scott Between Here & Forever (2012) xxxii. 168 There's a bike rack at the far end of the parking lot,..and I leave my bike there.
bike ride n.
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1891 News (Frederick, Maryland) 7 Aug. On Saturday he completed a pleasant bike ride of one hundred and seventy-five miles.
1958 J. Betjeman Coll. Poems 133 As slow the weary clergyman subsides Tired with his bike-ride from the parish church.
2005 Disability Now May 32/2 Our local community..raised several thousand pounds..through sponsored walks, bike rides, climbs and so on.
bike rider n.
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1887 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 10 Jan. 3/5 I have taken some pains to inquire of ‘bike’ riders the proportion of horses that scared on the road.
1975 Financial Times 18 Apr. 36/8 Its [sc. the Wankel rotary engine's] lack of economy will be relatively less important to the bike rider.
2007 R. Gottlieb Reinventing Los Angeles v. 209 Bike riders, like pedestrians, are today seen as an anomaly in a car-centered environment.
bike riding n. and adj.
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1893 Indiana Democrat 10 Aug. Bike riding is a fad among the fair sex.
1980 Financial Times 3 Jan. 13 Trying to label bike-riding commuters as inconsiderate vandals is just not good enough!
2006 W. J. Mann Kate iii. 27 She went on to love bike riding, she insisted, pedaling all over Hartford.
C2. attributive. Designating clothing or footwear designed to be worn while riding a bicycle or (occasionally) motorcycle, as bike shoe, bike shorts, etc.
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1892 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 26 June 10 (advt.) For bicycle & tennis... New style bike suit.
1896 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 26 Apr. 5 (advt.) A full line of the famous ‘Ball Bearing’ Bike Shoes.
1911 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 179/2 Athletic Support. Sharp & Smith's Bike-Jock Strap, being made entirely of elastic.
1980 Boys' Life Dec. 12/1 Years ago, riders either wore bike caps or leather helmets.
1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Oct. b1 Staggering out of the waters of Kailua Bay, the Ironman triathletes switch to their bike shorts.
1996 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 26 May He roared up to a Singapore golf club with the..leather jacket and bike boots.
2004 T. Phelan Family Claims xiv. 108 After making sure her cleated bike shoes and helmet were in the car's back seat, she went upstairs to change.
C3.
a. attributive. Designating a component part or accessory of a bicycle or (occasionally) motorcycle, as bike frame, bike pedal, bike wheel, etc.
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1893 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 21 May 3/3 We had the pleasure of inspecting a ‘bike’ wheel out at the Overman Wheel company's office the other day.
1897 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 6 Feb. 6/6 This is a bike frame with the wheels removed.
1922 Boys' Life Sept. 14/1 One foot on his bike pedal, the other on the road.
1942 Pop. Mech. Mag. Oct. 71/2 (heading) Tricycle pushcart with small motor is steered by bike handlebars.
1951 Boys' Life May 43/2 Riding on a rain-soaked bike seat is no fun.
1999 B. A. Lambert Allegra Series 40 Evening sounds from the park..drifted up to her, the cries of children, the hiss of bike wheels and roller-blades.
2012 Times (Nexis) 23 July (Sport section) 58 His handlebars and saddle went yellow, then his bike frame was resprayed.
b.
bike bell n.
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1895 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 10 July 3/2 (advt.) Bike bells and lamps, at Prugh's.
1998 A. Hale My World is not your World (2008) 78 The top of the bike bell has fallen off and is rolling down the road.
bike light n.
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1895 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 30 Oct. 8/6 The five foolish maids had no oil in their bike lights.
1950 Boys' Life June 48/1 (advt.) The Delta sealed beam bicycle headlight... You've never seen such a brilliant bike light!
2004 J. L. Carey Double Life Zoe Flynn xx. 119 Obey all the bike laws. Don't ride at night without a bike light.
C4.
bike chain n. (a) a chain, now generally a roller chain, used to transmit driving power to the rear wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle; = bicycle chain n. at bicycle n. Compounds 4; (b) a chain used to secure and prevent the theft of a bicycle or motorcycle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > chain
roller1863
bicycle chain1889
bike chain1897
ring1974
1897 Bath (Maine) Independent 15 May (headline) Bike chain broke... The report that the accident was caused by coasting, is untrue.
1980 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. 19/3 Hey, mister. You forgot to close the lock on your bike chain.
1997 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 15 Feb. 130 A broken bike chain saw Smith out of the opening round of the series.
2010 K. Slaughter Broken (2011) 42 A bike chain attached the back wheel to an eyebolt screwed into the concrete drive.
bike clip n. = bicycle clip n. at bicycle n. Compounds 4.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > bicycle clip
cycle clip1886
bicycle clip1898
bike clip1940
1940 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 15 Nov. 11/4 The bike clip is there, too, but it's well disguised in ribbon.
1990 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 19 Jan. Dunstan used to amaze us all at the Melbourne Sun by donning bike clips and a beret and riding in through peak hour traffic to the office.
2012 A. Cassidy Dead Time x. 114 Rose looked down to see the bike clips on his trousers.
bike courier n. a courier who uses a bicycle or (occasionally) motorcycle to transport and deliver communications, packages, etc.
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1941 Pop. Mech. July 64/1 (heading) Bike couriers hurry meals to remote defense crews.
1984 Daily Herald (Chicago) 2 Mar. (Arlington Heights ed.) vii. 6/1 Galvin, 31, former bike courier who is a dispatcher for Sparky's messenger service.
2011 B. Carroll Less than Perfect 79 This morning there are some bike couriers lounging on the grass, waiting to be radioed to their next job.
bike helmet n. a motorcycle helmet (cf. crash-helmet n.); (also) a bicycle helmet.
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1973 Off our Backs 3 14/3 The woman, nude except for a bike helmet, is pale blue, her vizor-goggles a deep blue grey.
1975 Boys' Life Sept. 16/1 Do you need a bicycle helmet?.. What does a bike helmet really do?
2000 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 6 July 26 They snatched her bike helmets which means she now can't use her other mode of transport—a motorbike.
2011 K. O'Brien Disturbed 371 A thin, fortyish woman with her frizzy brown-gray hair half hidden by a bike helmet pedaled by on a bicycle.
bike lane n. chiefly North American = bicycle lane n. at bicycle n. Compounds 4, cycle lane n. at cycle n.2 Compounds 4.
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1938 Clovis (New Mexico) News-Jrnl. 23 Oct. 5/2 This corner's congratulations to whomever is responsible for having the bike lanes painted on Pile Street.
1970 N.Y. Times 17 Sept. 1/6 Sid Davidoff, an assistant to the Mayor, said that a special bike lane on an avenue—not necessarily Fifth Avenue—was likely by next summer.
2011 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 20 May d1/3 Bloomington has 13 miles of bike lanes.
bike messenger n. originally U.S. = bicycle messenger n. at bicycle n. Compounds 4.
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1906 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 11 Oct. 6/1 (heading) Girl bike messenger.
1936 Washington Post 31 Jan. 18/3 He saw his first Harvard-Yale football battle as a 14-year-old bike messenger.
2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 42/4 A group of bike messengers, all rigged out in expanding fabrics.
bike path n. originally North American = bicycle path n. at bicycle n. Compounds 4, cycle path n. at cycle n.2 Compounds 4.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > for bicycles
bicycle path1875
cycleway1884
bike path1895
bikeway1895
cycle path1896
1895 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. 20 Apr. 5/2 The bike path to Marion will be made more complete than was at first proposed.
1896 Washington Post 20 Nov. 7/4 (heading) Bike path of 40 miles... Project to connect Baltimore and Washington.
1963 A. J. Kahn Planning Community Services for Children in Trouble b. vi. 208 People have a right to feel..that their children will not be molested in the playgrounds and on the bike paths.
2010 Independent 16 Jan. (Mag.) 49/4 Part of the pleasure of that crisp morning ride is to see an almost empty bike path unfurl itself before you through the park.
bike pump n. = bicycle pump n. at bicycle n. Compounds 4.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > accessories
bicycle pump1892
bike pump1896
saddlebag1920
pannier bag1939
1896 Worth County (Iowa) Index 11 June Prizes to victors in the bicycle contest will be awarded as follows:..5th, $2 Heath bike pump.
1946 Boys' Life Nov. 28/2 (advt.) Ask your Pharis dealer to show you the new plastic bike pump with grips to match.
2005 R. Douglas Night Song Last Tram 152 Robert..produced a leather football and bladder from his bag—complete with bike pump to inflate them.
bike share n. = bike sharing n.
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1995 Corvallis (Oregon) Gaz.-Times 26 Apr. a2/2 Approximately 200 bicycles that were either working or repairable were pulled out to be given to..a community bike-share program.
2018 M. Bopp et al. Bicycling for Transportation vi. 125 Businesses perceived a positive impact of bike share on both their sales and the neighborhood, and most were open to having a bike share station located in front of their business.
bike sharing n. the practice of making bicycles available for shared use, esp. through a self-service rental scheme in which people hire bicycles for short-term use within a town or city; frequently as a modifier.
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1984 Los Angeles Sentinel 4 Oct. a11/4 This year CITIES's Annual Benefit Award..was presented to Weingart Y's Family Connection Program which provides..Bike Sharing, Baby Sitting, Tool Sharing, and Food Sharing.
1995 Bicycles for Free Public Use in Portland in rec.bicycles.soc (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Mar. I have heard it through the grapevine that the Bicycle Transportation Alliance has organized a unique citywide bike sharing program.
2017 Economist 23 Dec. (Christmas ed.) 105/2 Cities are still car-dominated, still congested, still polluted. But the spread of bike sharing has made millions of lives a bit easier and a bit better.
bike shed n. = bicycle shed n. at bicycle n. Compounds 4.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > storage of bicycles
bicycle shed1875
bike shed1899
1899 Era 4 Mar. 31/2 (advt.) Furnished Bed and Sitting-room... Bike shed.
1965 Pacific Stars & Stripes 9 Nov. 11/1 Another self-help project which makes a big impression on peasants in the delta is the bike shed, a covered place for keeping bicycles.
2005 J. Burbank Las Vegas Babylon (2006) 27 We courted in the only way you could in those days—a quick kiss behind the bike shed, notes of endearment.
bikeway n. originally North American a track or thoroughfare for (the exclusive use of) bicycles; a cycleway; frequently attributive, as bikeway system, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > for bicycles
bicycle path1875
cycleway1884
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1895 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 1 Aug. 10/5 This new amusement will be responsible for several new words in the next dictionary published. There will be found such words as bike, biker, bikess, bikeway and biking.
1901 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 1 July 8/4 It is going to be a big holiday for everybody and there will be all kinds of fun and sport, races at the track and at the saucer bikeway.
1967 Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 802/1 Bikeway, a thoroughfare (as in a park) restricted to bicycles.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 6 Sept. 5/1 The bikeway system is composed entirely of main routes without feeder pathways from the midtown to the downtown area.
1983 Metro (Auckland) Feb. 68/2 Basically the bikeway was already there; the Council simply painted a stripe down the centre of the old footpath.
2011 Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser (Nexis) 6 Apr. 5 Many asked about opening up the site with footpaths and bikeways.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
bikev.1
/bʌɪk/, U.S. /baɪk/, Scottish English /bʌik/ Scottish.
To swarm like bees.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of people or animals > in large numbers
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1805 A. Scott Poems 16 (Jam.) The lads about me biket.
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bikev.2
/bʌɪk/, U.S. /baɪk/ 1. intransitive. To ride a bike; to travel by bike; to cycle. Also transitive with it.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > cycle [verb (intransitive)]
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1885 Notes & Queries 14 Nov. 386/1 Two other words have been started this year, I believe, at any rate since cycling became fashionable, and ‘Do you bike or trike?’..may soon become common.
1895 Daily News 10 Sept. 7/1 Young girls..who are learning to ‘bike’.
1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth vi. 25 Daisy biked over to Exeter this morning with Mr. Frame.
1931 M. Franklin Old Blastus of Bandicoot xv. 188 ‘How did you come?’ ‘I biked it from the turn-off.’
1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells v. 48 All that was crumbling, picturesque and quaint..sent me biking off..for Architecture bound.
2007 Coventry Tel. (Nexis) 23 June Coventry Airport has been encouraging staff to bike to work—by offering them a free breakfast.
2. transitive. To cover or traverse (a specified distance) by bike; to travel (a region, route, etc.) by bike.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > cycle [verb (transitive)] > cover a distance by cycling
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1897 Cycling 25 Sept. 218/1 Do you know, Miss Rationale biked twenty miles the other day.
1901 Weekly Irish Times 7 Sept. 24/2 Tomkins..had ‘biked’ over forty miles on the strength of a general invitation to drop in any time.
1952 Life 8 Sept. 154/2 She estimates she has biked 15,000 miles, most of them..rough and hilly.
1979 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 21 June They biked that route before and never had any accidents.
1994 Backpacker Apr. 6/2 Last year I biked Italy on a guided tour and had a great time.
2011 A. Walker On Bicycles i. 3 We biked a few miles to a restaurant around sunset on Friday night.
3. transitive. Frequently with over, round, etc. To deliver or cause to be delivered by bicycle or motorcycle.
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1987 Herald (Melbourne) (Nexis) 28 Sept. (Gold TV Guide section) 20 Hearing that Cannon Films had read 1000 scripts,..she biked the manuscript round to the company.
1993 R. Shell iCED 159 I finally called Dalek and told him that I was sick with the flu, but if he biked the contract out I would look at it.
2006 Independent 12 July 8/2 ‘We received a call asking for a copy to be biked to Cameron's office at the House of Commons’, reads a press release from the broadcaster.
2010 S. Fry Fry Chrons. 313 In the eighties every phone call between editors and journalists, agents and clients..lawyers and lawyers included phrases like: ‘I'll get it biked over to you,’ ‘Bike it over, I'll sign and bike it back.’
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