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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tandem  \Tan"dem\,  n. 
  A  tandem  bicycle  or  other  vehicle. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tandem  \Tan"dem\,  adv  &  a.  [L.  tandem  at  length  (of  time  only), 
  punningly  taken  as  meaning,  lengthwise.] 
  One  after  another;  --  said  especially  of  horses  harnessed  and 
  driven  one  before  another,  instead  of  abreast. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tandem  \Tan"dem\,  n. 
  A  team  of  horses  harnessed  one  before  the  other  ``He  drove 
  tandems.''  --Thackeray. 
 
  {Tandem  engine},  a  compound  steam  engine  having  two  or  more 
  steam  cylinders  in  the  same  axis,  close  to  one  another. 
 
  {Tandem  bicycle}  or  {tricycle},  one  for  two  persons  in  which 
  one  rider  sits  before  the  other 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tandem 
  n  :  with  two  sets  of  pedals  and  two  seats  [syn:  {bicycle-built-for-two}] 
  adv  :  one  behind  the  other  "ride  tandem  on  a  bicycle  built  for 
  two";  "riding  horses  down  the  path  in  tandem" 




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