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单词 trike
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triken.

Etymology: Irregularly shortened < tricycle n.
colloquial.
1. = tricycle n. 2. Also (rarely) = tricyclist n. at tricycle n. Derivatives.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > cyclist > on tricycle
tricyclist1878
tricycler1881
trike1883
triker1901
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > tricycle
tricycle1868
trike1883
1883 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 22 Apr. 6/5 Londoners call bicyclists ‘bikes’ and tricyclists ‘trikes’.
1884 Wheel World Apr. 495/2 The makers of his new trike.
1901 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 May 1 The commercial ‘trike’ is, perhaps, the least supportable of the various tyrannies on wheels.
1912 A. S. M. Hutchinson Happy Warrior iii. v. 148 I'm all mixed up in this awful trike, you know.
1939 X. Herbert Capricornia (new ed.) xiii. 185 There is no fixed time for those who wish to come by horse or trike. Just roll up when you like.
1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 827/1 Trike..for ages 3 to 7 years.
1972 Oxf. Times 4 Feb. 17 An Oxford doctor has condemned the three-wheeled invalid trikes as ‘tin coffins’.
1984 N.Z. Farmer 23 Feb. 31/2 (caption) Honda farm bikes and trikes remain one of the strongest sellers in Motor Holdings' lineup.
2. A kind of ultralight aircraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > small or light aircraft
light aircraft1913
puddle-jumper1917
light plane1923
runabout1932
runabout plane1966
ultralight1974
microlight1980
trike1981
1981 M. A. Markowski Ultralight Aircraft 45 The trike appears to be a viable approach to ultralight flight and allows thousands of hang gliders to be powered, as desired.
1982 Sci. Amer. July 63/1 A trike (from tricycle) is a pyramidal tubular frame that holds the engine, the pilot's seat and the landing gear.

Derivatives

trike v. intransitive.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > cycle [verb (intransitive)] > ride tricycle
tricycle1883
trike1885
1885 Notes & Queries 14 Nov. 386/1 Do you bike or trike?
1904 R. C. Jebb in Life & Lett. (1907) 403 I..‘triked’ round by Grantchester.
1977 Times 9 Aug. 5/7 Many disabled people are now turning from the ‘to trike or not to trike’ argument.
ˈtriker n.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > cyclist > on tricycle
tricyclist1878
tricycler1881
trike1883
triker1901
1901 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 May 1 I was further gratified with the intimation that the peccant triker had been discovered.
ˈtriking n.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > riding a tricycle
tricycling1882
triking1890
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 374/1 Trike, (common) a tricycle; triking, cycling. Do you bike or trike? do you ride a bicycle or a tricycle?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

trikev.

Etymology: Derivation obscure. Some conjecture that it is the primitive of trikel , trickle v., and meant ‘to flow down’: compare trill v.2 3; others that it may be for strike.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To hang down, descend, fall in a flowing manner.
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > hang down > trailingly
trikea1350
trilla1400
trailc1412
train1584
dragglec1594
tag1617
traipsea1777
streel1847
trape1875
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 38 Hire gurdel of bete gold is al, vmben hire middel smal, þat trikeþ to þe to.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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