penny-farthing 的定义
British.
- a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
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- They deserve every penny and more: booking a four week tour is a huge job.
- “Every single witness is inadmissible, hearsay, triple-hearsay,” said assistant state attorney Penny Brill in court yesterday.
- She regressed to the mental state of a toddler lost in a J.C. Penny department store.
- It is believed the couple were visiting royal obstetrician Alan Farthing.
- “I have not been paid and will not be paid a single penny,” he declared.
- In 1603 it was ordered that one quart of best ale, or two of small, should be sold for one penny.
- Since the end of 1847, not a penny has come into his own pocket either through piano-playing and conducting, or through teaching.
- A system of supplying school-children with penny dinners is the latest philanthropic movement.
- In the same year he also manufactured two million penny tokens for our soldiers in Spain, which were not forbidden.
- The penny at that time was equal to a shilling of the present day, and would, relatively, purchase as much.