What is Penny-farthing?
1.
One of those bicycles with the front wheel really big and the back one really small. No chain, yet the pedals were on the front wheel.
Penny-Farthings are the grandfather of unicycles.
2.
running around in circles with a small person's legs clamped round your head screaming into her tuppence.
she charged me 30 dollars more for a penny-farthing.