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Tandem   /tˈændəm/   Listen
noun
Tandem  n.  
1.
A team of horses harnessed one before the other. "He drove tandems."
2.
A tandem bicycle or other vehicle.
Tandem bicycle or Tandem tricycle, one for two persons in which one rider sits before the other.


adverb
Tandem  adv., adj.  One after another; said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.





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"Tandem" Quotes from Famous Books



... the tax-cart and two horses to drive tandem. The captain was rather a good whip, and he drove at a great pace to Dollington, took the train on to Charteris, there posted his letter, and so returned; his temper continuing savage all that evening, and in a modified degree in the same state for ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... slumber and galvanises her into a state of activity that lasts for several hours. Long before dawn, the roads leading townwards are busy with all manner of vehicles, from the great waggon drawn by four white horses driven tandem, and laden with a moving stack of hay, to the ramshackle donkey-cart conveying half a score of cabbages, a heap of dandelions grubbed from ...
— A Versailles Christmas-Tide • Mary Stuart Boyd
... the difference between a Vauclain four-cylinder compound, a four-cylinder tandem, a balanced and a Mallet compound in their arrangement ...
— The Traveling Engineers' Association - To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads • Anonymous
... roof on it and a lightning-rod and all the other modern improvements; a little book which for the present affects to travel in yoke with the Bible and be friendly to it, and within half a century will hitch it in the rear, and thenceforth travel tandem, itself in the lead, in the coming great march of Christian Scientism through the Protestant dominions ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... vero urbibus constitutis ut fidem colere et justitiam retinere discerent et aliis parere sua voluntate consuescerent, ac non modo labores excipiendos communis commodi causa sed etiam vitam amittendam existimarent; qui tandem fieri potuit nisi homines ea quae ratione invenissent eloquentia persuadere potuissent."—Cic. de Inv. Rhet. lib. i. ...
— A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations • James Mackintosh


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