pushbike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊʃbaɪk/
ipa: /ˈpʊʃˌbaɪk/
Forms: form: pushbikes
form: pushbiking
form: pushbiked
form: pushbiked
form: push bike
form: push-bike
form: push bike
form: push-bike
Etymology: The noun is derived from push + bike. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: It makes me miserable when I think of the number of poor surveyors still push-biking their daily round.
ref: 1913, Surveyor, volume 43, London: [Taylor & Francis?], →OCLC, page 1001, column 2:
text: Recently two of us had to go into Makeni to collect copper for the men's December pay, and as walking would have taken at least two days, and for any degree of comfort four, we push biked along the bush track from camp to Kamabai, about six miles, and covered the remaining twenty odd miles by railway trolley (West African pump-car).
ref: 1930s, “Homo” [pseudonym; Harold James Holmes], Behind Mount Lion: Treks and Tours in Sierra Leone: Compiled from the Letters of “Homo”, Andover, Hampshire: Published at the “Advertiser” Printing Works, →OCLC, page 50:
text: Dr. Smith is making a tour of the world "push-biking" from place to place, forwarding whatever he finds interesting along his travels.
ref: 1932, Herbert N. Smith, “English Personalities”, in Year Book of Optometry, New York, N.Y.: New York State Optometric Association, →OCLC, page 249:
text: First of all it was very early in the morning—it was about by this time between 4 and 6 a.m. everybody still asleep—so I went on and start push biking around the house till I decide that its not too early.
ref: 1964, Jerzy Zubrzycki, Settlers of the Latrobe Valley: A Sociological Study of Immigrants in the Brown Coal Industry in Australia, Canberra, A.C.T.: Australian National University, →OCLC, page 205:
text: In South East Nigeria I knew him only slightly between 1923 and 1948; a self-effacing but self-sufficient figure pushbiking about the country in khaki shorts, white shirt and plimsolls, always purposeful, seldom interested in the whisky, gin, and bridge sessions that passed for evening society in bush stations.
ref: 1971, African Arts: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Graphic, Plastic, Literary and Performing Arts of Africa, Los Angeles, Calif.: African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 93, column 1:
text: Apart from a wireless-repair van parked a few yards off and a vicar's-wife type, energetically push-biking past in bright yellow oilskins, the streets were deserted.
ref: 1994, Kingsley Amis, You Can’t Do Both, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2004, →ISBN, page 318:
text: It was cloudy, cool and misty as he [Thomas Edward Lawrence] push-biked up the long hill into Elsfield village.
ref: 1996, Paul [J.] Marriott, Yvonne Argent, The Last Days of T. E. Lawrence: A Leaf in the Wind, Brighton, East Sussex; Portland, Or.: Alpha Press, →ISBN, page 64:
text: The other thing about the time he pushbiked from Hereford back home was that when he stripped off, his body underneath was black.
ref: 1998, Gordon Burn, Happy Like Murderers, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN; republished London: Faber and Faber, 2011, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: To travel by pushbike.
Hypernyms: word: bicycle
word: cycle
Derived terms: word: pushbiking