"dandy-horse" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dandy-horses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dandy-horse (plural dandy-horses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998 November 29, Eric Epstein, “A Passion for Old Bicycles Spun Into a Museum”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-31",
          "text": "In 1817 and in 1818, France and Germany both claimed they had come up with the first mechanism for a bike. It was a piece of wood with a wheel at one end and a wheel at the other, and you walked it along. In England, they called it a dandy horse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Chris Boardman, The Biography of the Modern Bike: The Ultimate History of Bike Design, Hachette, page 10",
          "text": "Because these riders preferred smooth pavements to rough roads, they tended to travel on pavements and on park footpaths, where inevitable collisions with pedestrians resulted in such practices being outlawed. The dandy horse went out of fashion nearly as quickly as it came in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A two-wheeled foot-propelled vehicle with no pedals or brakes; a draisienne."
      ],
      "id": "en-dandy-horse-en-noun-xC64SOLW",
      "links": [
        [
          "pedal",
          "pedal"
        ],
        [
          "brake",
          "brake"
        ],
        [
          "draisienne",
          "draisienne"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, historical) A two-wheeled foot-propelled vehicle with no pedals or brakes; a draisienne."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hobby horse"
        },
        {
          "word": "draisienne"
        },
        {
          "word": "dandy horse"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "historical"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "two-wheeled foot-propelled vehicle",
          "word": "potkupyörä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "two-wheeled foot-propelled vehicle",
          "word": "draisienne"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dandy-horse"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dandy-horses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dandy-horse (plural dandy-horses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998 November 29, Eric Epstein, “A Passion for Old Bicycles Spun Into a Museum”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-31",
          "text": "In 1817 and in 1818, France and Germany both claimed they had come up with the first mechanism for a bike. It was a piece of wood with a wheel at one end and a wheel at the other, and you walked it along. In England, they called it a dandy horse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Chris Boardman, The Biography of the Modern Bike: The Ultimate History of Bike Design, Hachette, page 10",
          "text": "Because these riders preferred smooth pavements to rough roads, they tended to travel on pavements and on park footpaths, where inevitable collisions with pedestrians resulted in such practices being outlawed. The dandy horse went out of fashion nearly as quickly as it came in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A two-wheeled foot-propelled vehicle with no pedals or brakes; a draisienne."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pedal",
          "pedal"
        ],
        [
          "brake",
          "brake"
        ],
        [
          "draisienne",
          "draisienne"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, historical) A two-wheeled foot-propelled vehicle with no pedals or brakes; a draisienne."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hobby horse"
    },
    {
      "word": "draisienne"
    },
    {
      "word": "dandy horse"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "two-wheeled foot-propelled vehicle",
      "word": "potkupyörä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "two-wheeled foot-propelled vehicle",
      "word": "draisienne"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dandy-horse"
}