penny farthing

Etymology
A reference to the old British coins and the relative sizes of the two wheels.

Noun



 * 1) A type of bicycle popular in the 19th century, with the front wheel far larger than the rear one.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 前輪大後輪小的自行車
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: hoge bi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: veltepetter,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, biciclo
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: velosipet