Meaning

2 senses
  1. A light auxiliary rail vehicle (train) or tram.

    Eisenbahn-Draisine, Draisine

    дрези́наdrezína

    дрези́наdrezýna

  2. (historical)Synonym of draisienne.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
light auxiliary rail vehicle:
Русский
By meaning 1
light auxiliary rail vehicle:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
light auxiliary rail vehicle:

Origin

Named after Baron Karl Drais (1785–1851), who invented a predecessor to the bicycle.

Named after Baron Karl Drais (1785–1851), who invented a predecessor to the bicycle.

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Forms

plural: draisines
Singulardraisine
Pluraldraisines

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relateddraisienne

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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