Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tricycle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tandem \Tan"dem\, n.
A team of horses harnessed one before the other. ``He drove
tandems.'' --Thackeray.
{Tandem engine}, a compound steam engine having two or more
steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one another.
{Tandem bicycle} or {tricycle}, one for two persons in which
one rider sits before the other.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tricycle \Tri"cy*cle\, n. [Pref. tri- + cycle as inbicycle.]
A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under {Velocipede}.
Cf. {Bicycle}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tricycle
n : a cycle with three wheels [syn: {trike}, {velocipede}]
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