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Home Dictionary Name: bicyclismSafety bicycle
A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels usually about 28 inches diameter driven by pedals connected to the rear driving wheel by a multiplying gear Since the 1930s this has been the most common type of bicycle now simply called bicycle The older high wheelers are often referred to as bone rattlers...
Bicycling
The use of a bicycle the act or practice of riding a bicycle...
Bicycles
Bicycles. The use of these and similar machines, formerly regulated by byelaws made by local authorities under the (English) Highways Act of 1878, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, is regulated by s. 85 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, which repeals all Acts empowering byelaws to be made on the subject, declares bicycles, etc., to be 'carriage within the meaning of the (English) Highway Acts' (see especially s. 78 of the Highway Act, 1835); but see Simpson v. Teignmouth, etc., Bridge Co., (1903) 1 KB 405, and in addition provides that cyclists must carry lamps between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise, and must give warning of their approach by bell or whistle. The Road Traffic Act, 1934, makes provisions as to red reflectors and a white surface in order to exempt bicyclists from having to shew a red rear light under (English)Road Transport Lighting Act, 1927, s. 5 [see (English) Pedal Cycles (White Surface) Provisional Regulations, 1934, 18 October,...
Bicycler
One who rides a bicycle...
Bicyclic
Relating to bicycles...
Bicyclism
The art of riding a bicycle...
Motor bicycle
Motor bicycle, means a motor vehicle which has two wheels, and has a maximum design speed exceeding 45 kmph and, if powered by an internal combustion engine, has a cylinder capacity exceeding 50 cubic centimeters, and includes a combination of such a motor vehicle and a side-car. [(English) Road Traffic Act, 1988, s. 108(1) (as amended)]...
Lights of vehicles
Lights of vehicles. The (English) Road Transport Lighting Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 37), provides for the lighting of vehicles of every description (except railway locomotives, carriages and trucks, tramcars, trolley vehicles), but including machines and implements of any kind, whether drawn by animal or propelled mechanically. Briefly, the Act deals as follows:-S. 1. Obligatory lights to be carried by vehicles at night.S. 2. Restrictions on the number and nature of lamps to be carried.S. 3. Conditions regulating the use of lamps on vehicles.S. 4. Restrictions on movement of lamps.S. 5. Special provisions as to bicycles and tricycles.S. 6. Horse-drawn vehicles.S. 7. Vehicles carrying overhanging or projecting loads.S. 8. Special provisions as to vehicles towing and being towed.S. 9. Regulations as to reflectors.Penalties, repeals, provisions as to regulations, etc.As to bicycles, see the (English) Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 19. (English) Road Transport Light...
Vegetables
Vegetables, as understood in common parlance are not products of manufacture unless, agriculture is an industry for certain purposes and vegetables are products of the Industry, Saraswati Sugar Mills v. Haryana State Board, AIR 1992 SC 228.The word 'vegetables' in taxing statutes is to be understood as in common parlance, Vegetables in item 6 does not include betel leaves, Ramavatar Budhaiprasad v. Asst. Sales Tax Officer, AIR 1961 SC 1325 (1327): (1962) 1 SCR 279. [C.F. and Bezar Sales Tax Act, (21 of 1947), Sch. II, Item 6]The word 'vegetables' should be understood as denoting the class of vegetables which are grown in kitchen garden or in a farm and are used for the tables. There can be no dispute that both chillies and lemons are grown in kitchen gardens or at any rate in farms and they are used for the tables, Mangulu Sahu Ramahari Sahu v. Sales Tax Officer, AIR 1974 SC 390: (1972) 4 SCC 423. [Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947, s. 6]The word 'vegetables' is not defined in the Act and it ...
Bicycle
A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the riders feet acting on cranks or levers...
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