TANDEM

adv. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
adv.

One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.

2.
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.


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