GR translation: wheeling his bicycle
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 08:44:17 CDT 2011
I don't think "wheeling a bicycle" means pushing it. I means riding it.
http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/mypath.cfm?ounid=ob_000285&h=no
And in current parlance it means pulling a "wheely," riding with only
one wheel on theground (usually the back one.).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MYt1IiY-iw
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> P81.36-38 ..., reeking of the sea (which he obtains once a week from the same fat fishmonger's son wheeling his bicycle, puffing, up the chalkwhite cliff)...
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> I assume "wheeling" means pushing his bicycle and not riding it, is that correct? And it's the fishmonger's son who is wheeling his bicycle up the cliff, right?
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