A four-wheel cab; also an old bicycle.
“A good swift hansom is worth twice as much as a ‘bone-shakerʹ any day.”—Nineteenth Century, March, 1893, p. 473.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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