toboggan

toboggans (plural)
tobogin (alternative)
toboggin (alternative)

/təˈbɑːɡ.ən/

The noun is attested since 1829, the verb since 1846. Both derive from French tabaganne, which derives from an Algonquian word, probably Mi'kmaq tepaqan or Abenaki dabôgan, influenced by similar words in other Eastern Canadian Algonquian languages. The sense of "hat" is recorded since 1929 and is short for toboggan cap (1928), a cap suitable for wearing while tobogganing.

Suppose we wish to make a pointed cap, such as used to be known as a toboggan cap, from yarn or worsted.

1915, William Rush Dunton, Occupation therapy:

Sissy bounded back in dressed in a heavy sweater and toboggan.

1992, Wallace Neal Briggs, Riverside Remembered:

If you must adorn your dog with a hat, go with a toboggan-style hat. If It was good enough for Snoopy, It Is definitely good enough for your dog.

2005, Dave Smith, Life's Too Short to Be an Underdog...And Other Spiritual Life Lessons I Learned from My Dog:

We used an old toboggan stuffed with cotton for the ball, and it served the purpose very well.

2006, Frances Stegall, Grass Roots: 80 Years in Bailey Co.:

(Southern US, especially South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia) A knit cap, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.

especially South Carolina; North Carolina; especially South Carolina; North Carolina


Segway

Brand name; according to Segway Inc., chosen for similarity to segue on notion of “a smooth transition from one place to another”, with probable influence of way.

A motorised vehicle for one person, ridden while standing, and having two wheels on one axle that balances itself using gyroscopes and tilt sensors.


rolling stock

en-noun

rolling stock (countable and uncountable, plural rolling stocks)

rolling stocks (plural)
rolling-stock (alternative)
rollingstock (alternative)

... while Grand Union says spare rolling stock could be used to provide additional capacity during events at the Principality Stadium and Celtic Manor Resort.

2019 October, “South Wales open access bid”, in Modern Railways, page 15:

(rail transport, uncountable, collectively) All vehicles that move on a railway, powered or unpowered.


sampan

sampans (plural)
champan (alternative)
champana (alternative)
champane (alternative)

From Sinitic, likely Cantonese 三板 (saam¹ baan²) or Hokkien 舢板 (sam-pán).

We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.

1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96:

Freedom-fighter Lin Chun-hwei reports his escape from the mainland at the Free China Relief Association. Lin escaped by sampan from Putien in Fukien province to one of the islets near Kinmen Oct. 27.

1975 November 16, L. Chen, “Maoist showcase of big troubles”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 45, Taipei, page 3:

(chiefly historical) A Chinese flat-bottomed wooden boat propelled by two oars.


chariot

From Middle English chariot, from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”). Displaced native Old English hrædwæġn (literally “fast wagon”).

ncog

A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.


jitney

1886, originally for a five-cent US coin (a nickel); use for taxis and buses due to these services originally charging five cents as fare, popularized circa 1915.
The etymology is uncertain; it is believed to originate from Louisiana Creole jetnée, from French jeton (“token, coin-sized metal disc”), though this is disputed. Evidence for the Louisiana Creole French origin includes the geographic distribution (Southeastern US, especially Black/African-American), and early spelling as gitney, which is common French spelling for the /ʒi/ pronunciation.

der

Synonym of gypsy cab, an unlicensed taxi.


Kalamazoo

Etymology of Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kalamazoo County
Kalamazoo County#English

A city, the county seat of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States.


Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company
Kalamazoo, Michigan

After the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company.

(rail transport, Australia) A pump trolley.


ambo

Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest.

1918, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 438:

the Emperor arrived and instead of moving directly to his seat climbed to the top level of the ambo, the great three-decker pulpit of polychrome marble.

1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 150:

A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.


ambo

Rawls: I don't want the fuckin' reporters seeing any ambos. Shit.

2004 Dec. 19, David Simon & al., "Mission Accomplished", The Wire, Season 3, Episode 12, 00:31:54


trolley

trolleys (plural)
trollies (plural)
trolly (alternative)

→ Catalan: tròlei

→ French: trolley

→ Romanian: troleu

→ German: Trolley

→ Welsh: troli

Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending).


gharry

gharries (plural)
garry (alternative)
gharri (alternative)
gharrie (alternative)
garee (alternative)

Borrowed from Hindi गाड़ी (gāṛī) / Urdu گاڑی (gāṛī, “wheeled cart, carriage; car, truck, bus”), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀕𑀟𑁆𑀟 (gaḍḍa), 𑀕𑀟𑁆𑀟𑀻 (gaḍḍī), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀕𑀸𑀟𑁆𑀟- (*gāḍḍa-).

bor

Once, during the last campaign we were in a great strait, to get up to Lahore from Allahabad, and, on applying one afternoon at the Post Office for a horsed palkee-garee we were informed... "Well, then, when ever can we have it," we rather angrily asked—"Oh!" said the dear Baboo, "on Saturday next" (that day being Wednesday) "if a lady and gentleman, at Mr. Berrill's hotel, do not take it..." Even in these "piping times of peace," we hear of people having to wait two or three days to get a public garee, along the main road of India.

1850 March, “Journeys in India”, in The Benares Magazine, volume III, number III, page 231:

(India, historical) Ellipsis of palkigari.


go-cart

go-carts (plural)
gocart (alternative)
go-kart (alternative)

(dated) A framework moving on casters, designed to support children as they learn to walk; a baby walker.


combine harvester

en-noun

combine harvester (plural combine harvesters)

So called because it is a single harvester that manages to combine several machines into one, doing several jobs: a reaper component doing the reaping, a thresher component doing the threshing, and a winnower component doing the winnowing.

A farm machine that harvests, threshes, and winnows ripe grain.


jaunting car

jaunting cars (plural)
jaunty car (alternative)

(historical) A kind of low-set horse-drawn open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sideways, sitting back to back.

carr cliathánach

low-set horse-drawn open vehicle in which the passengers ride sideways


trolleybus

trolleybus (plural trolleybuses or trolleybusses)

trolleybuses (plural)
trolleybusses (plural)


democrat wagon

democrat wagons (plural)
Democrat wagon (alternative)

(US, dated) A light flatbed farm wagon or ranch wagon that has two or more seats and is usually drawn by one or sometimes two horses.


gypsy cab

(colloquial, US, sometimes offensive) An unlicensed taxi, especially in the Northeastern United States.


scooter

→ Bengali: স্কুটার (skuṭar)

→ Catalan: escúter

→ Czech: skútr

→ Danish: scooter

→ Dutch: scooter

→ Finnish: skootteri

→ French: scooter

→ German: Scooter

→ Italian: scooter

→ Japanese: スクーター (sukūtā)

→ Korean: 스쿠터 (seukuteo)

→ Malay: skuter

→ Norwegian Bokmål: scooter

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: scooter

→ Polish: skuter

→ Portuguese: scooter

→ Romanian: scuter

→ Spanish: escúter; scooter

→ Swedish: skoter

سْكُوتَر

type of motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame — see also motor scooter

A kick scooter or push scooter; a human-powered land vehicle with a handlebar, deck and wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground.

An electric version of the kick scooter.

A mobility scooter; an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled or elderly people.

інвалі́дная каля́ска

electric scooter for disabled — see also mobility scooter

An ice scooter; a type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht used in the state of New York, equipped with runners for traveling over ice.


police car

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An automobile used by a police officer when on duty.

vehículo policial / policíaco / policiaco


paddy wagon

paddy wagons (plural)
paddywaggon (alternative)
paddy waggon (alternative)
paddywagon (alternative)

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Supposedly from Paddy, a derogatory name for an Irishman.

(slang) A police van for transporting prisoners.


race car

race cars (plural)
racecar (alternative)

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A car designed for use on racetracks in motor racing events.


DMS

DMS (countable and uncountable, plural DMSs)

(uncountable, automotive) Initialism of Driver Monitoring System.


RT

RT (countable and uncountable, plural RTs)


travois

travoises (plural)
travois (plural)
travail (alternative)
travoise (alternative)
travoy (alternative)

PIE word
 *tréyes
The noun is derived from Michif travawy (IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /tɹæˈvɔɪ/), from Canadian French travail (“travois”), from French travail, from Middle French travail, from Old French travail (“frame for restraining horses and cattle for medical treatment or shoeing”), from Late Latin tripālium (“torture device consisting of three stakes”), from Latin tripālis (“having, or propped up by, three pales or stakes”) (from tri- (prefix meaning ‘three’) + pālus (“pale, stake”)) + -ium (suffix forming nouns).
The spelling travois and pronunciations /ˈtɹævwɑ(ː)/, /tɹævˈwɑ/ are probably influenced by French -ois (suffix forming adjectives relating to particular countries, regions, or cities, their associated inhabitant names, and the local languages or dialects).
The verb is derived from the noun.

IPA

IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /tɹæˈvɔɪ/

noncog

On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta, […]

1892, Julian Ralph, “‘Talking Musquash’: Concluding the Sketch of the History and Work of the Hudson Bay Company”, in On Canada’s Frontier […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 236–237:

Riding out for wood he watched his shadow and the shadow of the horse and travois cross those palings tree by tree. Boyd rode in the travois holding the axe as if he'd keep guard over the wood they'd gathered […]

1994, Cormac McCarthy, chapter I, in The Crossing (The Border Trilogy; 2), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 5:

(originally and chiefly Canada, US, historical) A frame, often consisting of two poles tied together at one end to form a V-shaped structure with the vertex attached to a dog, horse, etc., or held by a person and the other ends touching the ground, which was used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land.

manistsí

frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land


tumbril

tumbrils (plural)
tumbrel (alternative)
tumbrill (alternative)

From Old French tumberel (modern French tombereau, in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber (“to fall”).

(historical) A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.


bloodmobile

A vehicle outfitted to collect blood from donors.


coupé

en-noun

coupé (countable and uncountable, plural coupés)

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé (an elliptical form of carosse coupé (“cut carriage”)), the past participle of couper (“to cut”).

A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupe)

(historical) A four-wheeled carriage with two seats inside, and a separate seat for the driver.

(historical) The front compartment of a railway carriage.

(uncountable) The strongest grade of Spanish saffron, akin to the Iranian sargol.


coupé

[...] who was knighted : His Arms were Or, three Barrs Azure on a Canton Argent, a Lyon's Head coupé Gules;

1826, Sir Henry Chauncy, The Historical Antiquities of Hertforshire, page 314:

Grant of Arms and Crest from Hervy Clarenceux : Sablés, a chevron engrayled betwene three bezants, on a chief gold a rose gules between two flower de luces azure. Crest, a horsse head coupé golde pelletey betwene two winges barrey[…]

1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 82:

Fig. 34, Argent, a baton sinister, coupé, gules (the mark of illegitimate descent).

1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 117:


biga

(historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast.


wrecker

Near-synonyms: breaker, knacker; salvager, salvor; scrapper, scrap dealer; shipbreaker, car breaker

(Australia) A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts.


hydrogen vehicle

hydrogen vehicle (plural hydrogen vehicles)

Any vehicle that uses hydrogen as its principal fuel, normally via the electricity produced by a fuel cell.

سَيَّارَة هِيدْرُوجِينِيَّة

any vehicle that uses hydrogen as its principal fuel

veículo a hidrogénio/hidrogênio (movido)


bakkie

Borrowed from Afrikaans bakkie, and then either:
* from Northern Dutch bakkie (informal), from Dutch bakje (“container; drinking vessel; (archaic) carriage for passengers”), from bak (“container; drinking vessel; vehicle; part of a vehicle for carrying loads; part of a carriage for carrying passengers”) (see further at that entry) + -je (diminutive suffix); or
* from Afrikaans bak (“container; part of a vehicle for carrying loads”) (from Dutch bak; see above) + -ie (diminutive suffix).

der

(road transport) A small pick-up truck or ute, generally open and sometimes fitted with a removable canopy, but distinct from an enclosed van and a large truck.


school bus

en-noun

school bus (plural school buses or school busses)

school buses (plural)
school busses (plural)
schoolbus (alternative)
school-bus (alternative)

A bus which carries children to or from school.


motor vehicle

means of transportation
means of transportation

Any land-based means of transportation in the form of a machine that operates primarily through a motor to provide power to rotate the tires.


baby carriage

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(US) A cart that is designed for moving a baby around in a lying position.


barouche

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.

“What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160:

[A]s the state barouche, with the greys and coachman in silver wig, and solemn footmen, drew up at the old churchyard-gate, there was such a crowd assembled there as had not been seen for many a long day.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

[…] all the other children got up behind the barouche and fell off, and we saw them, with great concern, scattered over the surface of Thavies Inn as we rolled out of its precincts.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 5, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

Day was drooping on a fine evening in March as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open highway.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 3

"Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the ' 80s."

1969, Anita Leslie, Lady Randolph Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 288:

A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.


stage-coach

stage-coaches (plural)
stagecoach (alternative)
stage coach (alternative)

From stage + coach, reflecting the fact that relay of horses was a typical aspect of the operation of the service.

compound

stage<id:place to rest during a journey; station for relay of horses>

Meronym: thoroughbrace

(historical) A horse-drawn coach that runs routinely between two destinations to transport passengers and mail.

дилижа́нс

horse-drawn coach to transport passengers and mail


flatbed truck

A form of such a truck adapted or designed specifically as a tow truck or for transporting other vehicles.


bottler

From Middle English boteller, botullere, equivalent to bottle + -er. Piecewise doublet of butler.

A Punchman's assistant who collects money ("bottle") from the audience.


Bedford

Bedford (disambiguation)
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford

From Middle English Bedforde, Bedeford, from Old English Bedaford, Bedanford, equivalent to Bede's + ford.
The civil parish is named after John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710 - 1771). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.

coin

A number of places in the United States:

Westchester County
Westchester County#English


horsebox

On October 31 [...] Laira "Grange" No. 6871 passed through Wolverhampton with a Holyhead-Didcot horsebox special.

1960 January, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 58:

(UK, rail transport, obsolete) A van-type railway vehicle specially built for the carriage of horses.


From the total number of wheels: two front steering wheels on the tractor, plus dual wheels on each end of two axles (total of 8) at the rear of the tractor and supporting the front of the trailer, plus dual wheels on two axles at the rear of the trailer.

A big rig truck: a semi-trailer plus the truck or tractor pulling it.


articulated lorry

en-noun

articulated lorry (plural articulated lorries)


Winnebago

From Ojibwe Wiinibiigoo (“Winnebago person”), from wiinibiig (“murky water”) (of Lake Winnipeg), from wiini’ (“to make someone dirty”), wiinad (“it is dirty”), plus nibi (“water”), plural nibig (“waters”).

A small city in Faribault County, Minnesota, United States.

Faribault County
Faribault County#English


four-wheeler

At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 22, in Dracula:

In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.

1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In Quest of a Solution”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 41:

"Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."

1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter:

A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart .

Reid pressured the teen to ride with him on the four-wheeler, but the teen said no "several times" because he saw Reid drinking liquor beforehand, and the ATV had bad brakes, documents state.

2023 November 29, “Former officer resigns after ATV crash in Greenwood leads to endangering the welfare of a minor charge”, in 5NEWS:

A four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle; a quad bike.

The cars, of which there were five, were four-wheelers seating 32, and had wrought-iron railings round the end platforms.

1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 741:


passenger car

(vehicles) A motor vehicle designed to carry (a few) passengers; a motorcar.


sports car

An automobile designed for high speed and power, tight handling, and flashy looks.


stroller

(US, Canada, Australia) A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.


snowmobile

snowmobiles (plural)
snow-mobile (alternative)
snow mobile (alternative)

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From the manufacture of snowgoing equipment such as snow cats, it diversified first into that of snowmobiles (and later skidoos, or water scooters), then into railcar and locomotive manufacture, and finally into the manufacture of small (less than 100-seat) commercial aircraft.

2001, Charles W. L. Hill, Gareth R. Jones, Strategic Management Theory: An Integrated Approach, page 312:

Lance Allan: "When you first saw that video of you in a snowmobile suit at five years old on national TV and on our air. Were you a little bit like, c'mon Mom and Dad, are you going to do me like that?"

2022 November 2, “Young Wisconsin Olympian Jordan Stolz talks speedskating career: 'I'm just happy I got to skate that fast'”, in TMJ4:

(vehicles) A vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.


pedicab

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Southwark: The cause of the fire that seriously disrupted services between London Bridge and Waterloo East on August 17 has been traced to an overheated battery-powered pedicab under the aches [sic: arches] in Union Street.

2022 September 7, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: London”, in RAIL, number 965, page 25:

A tricycle having a hooded cab to seat paying passengers.


jeep

→ Mandarin: 吉普 (jípǔ)

→ Bikol Central: dyip

→ Cebuano: dyip

→ Czech: džíp

→ Danish: jeep

→ Esperanto: ĵipo

→ Faroese: jeppur

→ Finnish: jeeppi

→ French: jeep

→ German: Jeep

→ Hungarian: dzsip

→ Icelandic: jeppi

→ Irish: jíp

→ Italian: jeep

→ Japanese: ジープ (jīpu)

→ Polish: dżip

→ Portuguese: jipe

→ Russian: джип (džip) (see there for further descendants)

→ Serbo-Croatian: džȉp, џи̏п

→ Slovak: džíp

→ Spanish: jeep

→ Swedish: jeep

→ Tagalog: dyip

→ Tausug: jīp

→⇒ Tibetan: མོ་ཊ་ཇིབ (mo ṭa jib)

→ Turkish: cip

→ Welsh: jîp

Derived from GP, initialism of general-purpose. Noun from General Purpose Vehicle (military light utility truck).

Jeep

trademark derived from the military vehicle

A small, blocky, military-style vehicle with four-wheel drive, suited to rough terrain.

A light utility truck from WWII used by the U.S. Army, and subsequently turned into the trademark Jeep when civilianized by originating manufacturer Willys-Overland.

(Philippines, colloquial) Clipping of jeepney


jeep

Disputed. Possibly from Eugene the Jeep, a character in Popeye cartoons.

(Australia, regional) A covered shopping cart, also called a "shopping stroller".


dune buggy

(automotive) A recreational vehicle with large tires, designed for use on beaches and sand dunes.


landaulet

landaulets (plural)
landaulette (alternative)


gas guzzler

(informal) A vehicle that consumes a large amount of fuel.


monster truck

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Literally, monster (“very large”) + truck (“motor vehicle”). Reportedly coined by Bob George, an owner of a motorsports promotion company, in the early 1980s, when referring to a popularly oversized truck named Bigfoot. Through semantic generalization, it came to refer to any of these oversized trucks.

com

A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.

怪獸卡車 /怪兽卡车

truck designed to perform in monster truck shows


sin bin

sin bins (plural)
sin-bin (alternative)
sinbin (alternative)

From sin + bin. Apparently Australian. Usage of the panel van sense is influenced by the US trade name.

Tommy Parker had propped Sporting World against a waterjug. He said “I see Max de Woppa spent three minutes in the sin bin.”

1985, Nicholas Mosely, Accident, →ISBN, page 27:

Rob received a minor penalty, and as he served out his three minutes kicking back in the sin bin, Chinook′s sniper, Pierre Dion, shot from the point.

2005, Rachel K. Gibson, The Trouble With Valentine's Day, page 46:

2012: Phil Gifford, Rivals: Sports Greatest Battles, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page,
At the play-the-ball Tamati and Dowling started jostling each other, then punching. The referee sent them to the sin bin.

(sports) An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.

jäähyaitio

sports: an area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play

penalty box

area for confinement of players while suspended

Punishment can be positive or negative, but both decrease the chances of the behaviour recurring. Positive punishment adds something unpleasant: yelling at the cat, for example. Negative punishment removes something pleasant: your company, for example, by putting the cat in the sin bin (see Chapter 9).

2001, Kersti Seksel, Training Your Cat, page 33:

Where habitual offenders remain, we can be sure that any sin-bin will not be populated by members of any one racial group alone.

2004, Richard Giles, Creating Uncommon Worship: Transforming the Liturgy of the Eucharist, page 88:

2004, Allison James, Adrian James, Constructing Childhood: Theory, Policy and Social Practice, Palgrave MacMillan, 130,
As the pupils who would be the occupants of the sin-bins would not be counted as having been excluded from schools - being simply rehoused within them - the Government′s policy to cut the number of permanent school exclusions would remain intact, while the complaints made by teachers could also be addressed.

2004, John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher, Volume 2: The Iron Lady, page 214,
She was obliged to leave him in the sin-bin for four years.

(figurative) A place for transgressors, a limbo; a place of confinement or self-isolation after (or in order to avert) transgressions; a state of disgrace.

(UK, education, colloquial) A referral unit or special class for frequent truants.

1972 September, What′s New: Rolling pad, Popular Science, page 70,
There′s a shag rug on the floor, padding on walls and ceiling, and, for extra comfort, a 600-gallon water bed. The Sin Bin is made by Chinook Mobilodge.

1978 March, Jim Elder, Camp/work conversion, Popular Mechanics, page 110,
There is the shag-carpet “sin bin” with its fur upholstery, mahogany paneling, stained glass, color TV and chrome sidepipes.

1986 January, A Family Affair, Popular Mechanics, page 86,
Unlike the full-size Sin Bins of the ′70s, the new family vans are cute, comfortable and carlike.

(US, Australia, colloquial) Synonym of fuck truck: A panel van with a mattress in the back.


sin bin

en-verb

sin bin (third-person singular simple present sin bins, present participle sin binning, simple past and past participle sin binned)

sin bins (present singular third-person)
sin binning (participle present)
sin binned (participle past)
sin binned (past)
sin-bin (alternative)
sinbin (alternative)

(sports, usually in passive voice) to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule in a game

antaa jäähy

sports: to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule


jinker

[…] exhibited was a newly designed jinker, invented by Mr. John Allan.[…] can load a tree weighing 1½ tons with the greatest ease.

1896 September 12, “Improved jinker”, in The Leader (Melbourne AU), page 12:

(Australia) A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.


hovercar

A fictional motor car that hovers a short distance above the ground.


speeder

(dated) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings, in spinning.


bounder

bounders (plural)
boundure (alternative)

From bound + -er.
Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.

Let the mountaine Pyrenaeus diuide the French, and Spaniards: and the wildernesse of Sand the Aethiopians, from Aegyptians. And in like manner also be all other Kingdomes: they are bound within their bounders, as it were in bands; and shut-vp within their limits, as it were in prison.

1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269

(UK, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.


double-decker

double-deckers (plural)
doubledecker (alternative)
double decker (alternative)

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A vehicle (usually a bus, coach or train) or aircraft with two floors.

(journalism) A headline that is two lines long.

Indian MSM include self-identified gay men (Western acculturated), kothis (men who tend to be the receptive male partner in anal and oral sex and typically have more effeminate mannerisms), panthis (men who tend to be the insertive male partner in anal and oral sex), and double deckers (men who are both receptive and insertive partners). While MSM may self-identify as kothi, the terms panthi and double-decker are generally given by kothis to their male partners based on their sexual roles.

2011 December 18, Beena Thomas et al., “HIV in Indian MSM: Reasons for a concentrated epidemic & strategies for prevention”, in The Indian Journal of Medical Research, volume 134, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, →PMID, page 921:

A double-decker is a term used for someone who functions as both. Double-deckers and Kothis have a high risk of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases according to studies among different MSM sub-groups in the nation.

2016 June 6, “Understanding LGBTQ+: An exhaustive explainer on gender and sexual identities”, in The News Minute:

Participants were either kothi (feminine acting, usually the receptive sexual partner) or double-decker (either insertive or receptive sexual partner; usually has male and female partners) at screening, and were required to speak English, Tamil (in Chennai), or Hindi (in Mumbai) fluently.

2021 April 18, Steven A Safren et al., “Strengthening resilience to reduce HIV risk in Indian MSM: a multicity, randomised, clinical efficacy trial”, in The Lancet Global Health, volume 9, number 4, →DOI, →PMID, page e448:

(India, LGBTQ slang) a man who both penetrates (top) and is penetrated (bottom) in sex with other men; sometimes also has relationships with women and/or presents masculine as well as feminine mannerisms and appearances.


fixed head coupé

en-noun

fixed head coupé (plural fixed head coupés)

(British) A four-seated car or coupé with the appearance of a sports car, with a sloping rear and hardtop.


drophead coupé

(British) A four-seated sports car with two doors, a folding roof and a sloping rear; a soft top.


hardtop

(British) The removable rigid roof of a convertible or sports car.

An indoor cinema with a roof, as opposed to a drive-in.


soft top

The foldable roof of a convertible or sports car which is made of fabric.


bookmobile

A mobile library; especially, a large van designed to transport a portion of some library's collection.


handcar

Yours goes up and mine goes down / and then we do it the other way around. / Don't you give me that sigh, cause if we can't see eye-to-eye / then our missions will be always filled with strife, / cause a handcar is a metaphor for life.

2013 March 1, “Sidetracked”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Agent Lyla (Samantha Bee):

A small handcar rested on the tracks, its iron pump waiting for a human touch to animate it.

2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 306:

A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism


Scania

From Medieval Latin Scania (attested since 950), from Old Norse Skáney, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō. Doublet of Scandinavia.

Scandinavian Peninsula
Scandinavian Peninsula

A former province, historical region, and peninsula in Sweden, roughly coterminous with Skåne County and occupying the southern tip of the Scandinavian Peninsula.

سكونا

historical region currently part of Sweden occupying the southernmost tip of the Scandinavian peninsula


lectica

From Latin lectica (“litter”), from lectus (“bed, couch”) + -ica (“forming related nouns”), q.v.

(historical) A kind of Roman litter, typically with bedding, curtains, and four legs.

(inexact) Synonym of litter, any similar vehicle.


pushcart

A small cart, normally with two or four wheels, that can be pushed by hand.


tractor-trailer

tractor-trailers (plural)
tractor trailer (alternative)

(chiefly Northeastern US) A large truck consisting of an engine and cab section (the tractor) and a cargo-carrying semi-trailer or trailer.


minivan

→ Japanese: ミニバン (miniban)

→ Korean: 미니밴 (minibaen)

→ Russian: минивэ́н (minivɛ́n)

→ Thai: มินิแวน (mí-ní-wɛɛn)

A small van, especially (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) one primarily used for family transport.


prairie schooner

prairie schooner (plural prairie schooners)

From the sail-like appearance of the wagons' covers when traversing tall grass.

It was what we call a "prairie schooner," covered with cloth, a genuine emigrant wagon.

1864, Charles S. Bryant, Abel B. Murch, A History of the Great Massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota: Including the Personal Narratives of Many who Escaped, Rickey & Carroll, page 112:

(historical) A covered wagon, especially one of the relatively light, cheap, and boxy design popular in the United States during the 19th century.


sport utility vehicle

sport utility vehicle (plural sport utility vehicles)

A passenger vehicle which combines the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or station wagon together with on- or off-road ability.


fuck truck

...into this fuck truck she came, seamy with semen, a place that made a motel whorehouse seem as fresh as new grass.

1982, Jimmy Breslin, Forsaking All Others, page 293:

The Ford Econoline, also known as the fuck-truck, sat outside. We didn't need a condom. Penny had already started taking the birth control pill.

2002, John H Stover, The Road Runner: An American Odyssey, page 111:

'Shame, it's nicknamed the "fuck truck".' 'Flic, I didn't go to Oz to get laid!' 'What was it you were saying before you left?'

2005, S G Harrison Mumford, Dos-a-Dos, page 69:

(slang, vulgar) A van fitted out with a mattress in the back for sexual intercourse.


off-roader

off-roaders (plural)
offroader (alternative)

(idiomatic) A vehicle that is designed to drive off the road.


kombi

From the brand name Volkswagen Kombi, borrowed from German Kombi. In South Africa reinforced by Afrikaans kombi.

Travelling in a fried-out kombi / On a hippie trailhead full of zombie

1981, Men At Work, “Down Under”, in Business as Usual:


village cart

An open, two-wheeled pleasure carriage drawn by one horse, with a low body and one seat.


dandi

In cases of short temporary illness a dandi may occasionally be very useful. Any strong pole, with a cloth sufficiently large, elliptically folded, and solidly attached to it in a longitudinal form, may at once be converted into a dandi.

1863, Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia:

A dandi is a kind of chair and foot-rest, so mounted on a framework of wood and iron rods that it can be carried by one man when it is empty, and by four men at a time when it has a passenger.

1912, Arthur Clinton Boggess, First Days in India, page 124:

In the course of unloading of the goods from a steamer, a dandi working on the boat enganged himself in the rope which was thrown from the steamer for the purposes of tying the boat and suffered injury.

1974, Indian Factories & Labour Reports, volume 28, India Supreme Court, page 6:

A rickshaw would move off, a dandi would swing by, and the rest would once again wait for the cry, “Dandi!”, “Dandi!”. Deoli and his companions were left to wait each time in the race and the rush.

2015, Attia Hosain, Distant Traveller: New and Selected Fiction:

(India) Alternative form of dandy, a boatman, a Shaiva mendicant, a basic sedan chair.


corf

From Middle English corf, borrowed from Middle Low German korf or Middle Dutch korf, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *korb.

(fishing) A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater.

винтер

container used to store live fish underwater


sedan chair

sedan chairs (plural)
sedan-chair (alternative)

/səˈdæn ˌtʃɛər/

Clarifying the intended meaning or sense of sedan.

kador-doug

portable chair used as a mode of transport — see also litter, palanquin

Another way of carrying a patient is upon what is known among school-boys as a ‘sedan-chair’, each bearer grasping his own fore-arm and that of his fellow about its middle... and the patient grasping the bearers' necks.

1869, Cassell's Household Guide, volume I, page 72:

(games) An equivalent mode of transport created by two people grasping each other's forearms, making a seat for the rider.


recreational vehicle

recreational vehicle (plural recreational vehicles)

desc

→ Canadian French: véhicule récréatif (calque)

(Canada, US) A self-propelled vehicle (motor home), or trailer designed for use as living quarters on overnight recreational activities and travel.


motor home

motor homes (plural)
motorhome (alternative)

recreational vehicle
recreational vehicle

A type of recreational vehicle, a self-propelled structure built on a truck or bus chassis containing living accommodations.

дом на колёсак f (dom na koljósak, literally “house on wheels”)


cable car

cable cars (plural)
cablecar (alternative)
cable-car (alternative)

/ˈkæɪ.bəl ˌkɐːɹ/

(US, Philippines) A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.

The Luton Direct Air-Rail Transit (DART) opened to passengers on March 10. The 1.3-mile cable car system is initially available for public use between 1400-1900 before opening in full at the end of the month.

2023 March 22, “Network News: Luton DART opens for business”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:

en:passenger vehicle attached to a moving cable

Any passenger vehicle attached to a moving cable for propulsion, and guided by some form of rails, on a specially-built track not in a street.

A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo.


tour bus

en-noun

tour bus (plural tour buses or tour busses)

tour buses (plural)
tour busses (plural)
tourbus (alternative)

A bus used for a touring group, especially by musicians.


ice cream truck

ice cream truck (plural ice cream trucks)

ice cream trucks (plural)
ice-cream truck (alternative)
icecream truck (alternative)

(US) A vehicle from which ice cream is sold at the roadside, mostly to children.


spryte

An off-road vehicle moving on tracks, which is used in amphibious and polar travel.


milk float

Further clues are provided by milk-floats bearing the legend 'Lord Rayleigh's Dairies: A Family Business', and a number of signs indicating the whereabouts of various departments of Lord Rayleigh's Farms.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 375, about Terling:

Milk floats were flimsy at the front (especially the three-wheelers) but very strong at the back. They were uncomplicated vehicles. Nothing much could go wrong and, when it did go wrong, the vehicles were relatively easy to repair.

2016, Andrew Ward, No Milk Today: The Vanishing World of the Milkman, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

An electric accumulator battery-driven vehicle (formerly also horse-drawn), designed for the house-to-house delivery of fresh milk; common in Europe, especially the United Kingdom.


earthmover

A vehicle designed to excavate or transport earth in large quantities.


cycler

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We took samples from the tubes in the cycler at regular intervals

(biochemistry) Ellipsis of thermal cycler, a machine for creating multiple copies of DNA sequences.


quadriga

quadriga (plural quadrigae or quadrigas)

From Latin quadrīgae, literally "four yoked", from quattuor (“four”) + iugum (“yoke”).

(historical) A team of four horses, or sometimes other animals, especially as used in chariot racing.


kibitka

Borrowed from Russian киби́тка (kibítka); see there for more.

bor+

Three kinds of conveyances are available: the telega, or cart without springs, which has to be changed at every station, and for which a charge of about 8d. is made at every stage; the kibitka, or cart (in winter a sledge) with a hood; and the tarantas, a kind of carriage on wooden springs, which admits of the traveller lying down full length, and which can be made very comfortable at night.

1868, “Route 25: London to Pekin […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 329:

A Russian type of telega or sleigh with a (usually rounded) cover over the passenger seats.


four-by-four

A four-wheel-drive vehicle with a four-speed transmission.

A four-wheel vehicle with four-wheel-drive.

(by extension) any four-wheel-drive vehicle.

A four-inch per four-inch gauze or similar material.


launch vehicle

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(aerospace) A vehicle for transporting objects into space, usually a rocket.


dolmus

From Turkish dolmuş, from dolma (“filling”) + -muş (“to be ~ed”).


snowmachine

snowmachines (plural)
snow machine (alternative)
snow-machine (alternative)

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(vehicles) A vehicle that can travel through snow.


black cab

From the usual black colour of officially licensed hackney carriages and motorized taxis in London, particularly after World War II.

(informal) Similarly styled taxis elsewhere, especially officially licensed taxis elsewhere in the United Kingdom.


hackney carriage

en-noun

hackney carriage (plural hackney carriages)

(British, chiefly historical) A horse-drawn carriage for public hire.


ambulette

A van used to transport patients in non-emergency situations.


sound truck

A vehicle equipped with loudspeakers, used for advertising, safety announcements, etc.


autorickshaw

A motorized rickshaw of South Asia and East Asia, often available for hire in the manner of a taxi.


boda-boda

boda-bodas (plural)
bodaboda (alternative)
boda boda (alternative)

Borrowed from Swahili bodaboda, from English border.

The discussion opened our eyes to what has subsequently become perhaps the most important element of the work, that boda boda drivers are a completely alienated group within Kampala.

2017, Tanu Priya Uteng, Karen Lucas, Urban Mobilities in the Global South, Routledge, →ISBN:

Meanwhile, all but one of the boda-boda drivers interviewed owned a mobile phone and reported that up to twenty clients had their number stored.

2018, Mei-Po Kwan, Tim Schwanen, Geographies of Mobility: Recent Advances in Theory and Method, Routledge, →ISBN:

(East Africa) A bicycle or motorcycle used as a taxi.


shuttle bus

shuttle buses (plural)
shuttle (alternative)

A short-haul minibus, typically privately owned, that shuttles passengers between set locations.


matatu

From Swahili matatu, a clipping of mapeni matatu (“thirty cents”, literally “three ten-cent coins”), the flat fare paid for such transportation in the 1960s. The word matatu is from ma- (prefix forming plurals) + -tatu (“three”) (from Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀ (“three”)).

clipping

A matatu is also more profitable when driven by its owner than by an employed driver, or if the employee-driver pays in all the earnings and the owner meets the operating costs, rather than when the owner demands a fixed sum of money daily, with the operator keeping the surplus.

1982, United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Habitat News:

For now, matatus made lanes along both sides of tarmac main roads and went over, around or through potholes depending on their speed.

2010, Philo Ikonya, Leading the Night, page 102:

Memories of their sense of trepidation, or even the anger, aboard a matatu could still be visceral.

2017, Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi, page 98:

The roads were jammed with matatu minibuses sporting cartoonish liveries, and trucks billowing black smoke into the dazzling African light.

2024 January 13, David Pilling, “Revenge of the moderators”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 15:

(Kenya, Uganda) A minivan used as a shared taxi, especially one operating without a licence.

matatu

minivan often used as a share taxi — see also minivan, shared taxi


jeepney

⇒ Hokkien: 集尼車 /集尼车 (chi̍p-nî-chhia)

→ Japanese: ジープニー (jīpunī)

→ Spanish: jeepney

→ Tagalog: dyipni

Uncertain, but likely a blend of jeep + jitney (“minibus, gypsy cab, shared cab”), from their origin in US Army surplus jeeps after World War II.

blend

(Philippines) Synonym of shared taxi, especially one with flamboyant decoration and usually heavily crowded.


triga

From Latin triga, a contraction of ter or tri- (“thrice”) + iuga (“yoked”).

(historical) A three-horse chariot used by the Ancient Romans.


air ambulance

An air ambulance hovered overhead before landing on the track. Frank held his father’s hand through the wreckage, as the firemen tried to cut him out of the car.

2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

An aircraft (especially a form of helicopter) equipped as an ambulance.


marshrutka

From Russian маршру́тка (maršrútka), colloquial clipping of маршру́тное такси́ (maršrútnoje taksí, “routed taxi”), from маршру́т (maršrút, “planned route”) and такси́ (taksí, “taxi”).

(Russia and nearby countries) Synonym of shared taxi in former Soviet contexts, particularly a minibus on fixed routes.

երթուղային տաքսի

shared Soviet-style minibus — see also shared taxi, minibus


kick scooter

A small platform with two or more wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground.


on-roader

A vehicle designed to be driven principally on normal roads; an on-road vehicle


motorcoach

motorcoaches (plural)
motor coach (alternative)
motor-coach (alternative)

There are also at present under construction 36 additional powerful electric motorcoaches of the latest type, used on high-speed cross-country trains.

1962 July, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Swiss-built couchette and sleeping cars”, in Modern Railways, page 58:

Alternative form of motor coach (a rail vehicle)


motorbus

en-noun

motorbus (plural motorbuses or motorbusses)

motorbuses (plural)
motorbusses (plural)

“[…]a motor-’bus scorching round into the Square from the Haymarket was swept into the air, and shivered into fragments.” “Professor,” I exclaimed, “a motor-’bus!” “I know how impossible it must sound,” said Professor Henry Tellurin,[…]

In the afternoon the air became black with locusts, and some of the women shrieked, sinking to the floor of the motorbus and covering their hair with traveling rugs.

1930 October 11, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “One Trip Abroad”, in The Saturday Evening Post:

The world beyond the sugarcane fields was remote and the village was linked to it only by villagers’ carts and bicycles, wholesalers’ vans and lorries, and an occasional private motorbus that ran to no timetable and along no fixed route.

1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4:


four-wheel drive

four-wheel drive (countable and uncountable, plural four-wheel drives)

en:state or trait of having four drive wheels

The state or trait of having four drive wheels.


three-wheeler

An autorickshaw, tuk-tuk or trishaw having three wheels.


caroche

caroches (plural)
caroach (alternative)
caroch (alternative)
carroch (alternative)
carroche (alternative)

From French caroche, from Italian carroccio.

(obsolete) A form of stately carriage or chariot


charret

charrets (plural)
charet (alternative)
charette (alternative)

From Old French charrete, diminutive of charre.


soapbox car

Originally built from wooden soap crates.

A vehicle without a motor, often made from wood or other common household materials.


cracky wagon

They knew the lineage of all the boys and girls who crowded into old cracky wagons, rode four to a horse or footed it out to the lake.

1936, August 18, The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, volume 10, Section 4, Page 16

(US, Western Pennsylvania) A one-horse wagon without springs.


heavy-duty vehicle

heavy-duty vehicle (plural heavy-duty vehicles)


light-duty vehicle

light-duty vehicle (plural light-duty vehicles)

gross vehicle weight rating
gross vehicle weight rating

(US) Any motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg) or less.


gross vehicle weight rating

gross vehicle weight rating (plural gross vehicle weight ratings)

GVWR includes the weight of the vehicle itself plus fuel, passengers, cargo, and trailer tongue weight.

The maximum allowable total mass of a road vehicle or trailer when loaded.


vardo

Borrowed from Angloromani vardo, from Romani vordon, from Ossetian уӕрдон (wærdon), from Proto-Iranian *wart- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wart-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, rotate”).

der

A traditional horse-drawn wagon used by the Romani.


subterrene

From Latin subterrēnus. By surface analysis, sub- + terrene.

With a deafening screech of metal upon rock—which surely must echo through all the recesses of the Mountain, and waken all its nightmare brood!—the subterrene smashed through the wall and came to rest beside them.

1956, Arthur C. Clarke, chapter 1, in The City and the Stars:

In the first field tests, a series of holes 2 inches in diameter and 12 feet deep were sunk with the rock-melting device, or subterrene.

1972, American Nuclear Society, Nuclear News, volume 15, page 47:

… “The beauty of the Subterrene is that, as it burrows through the rock hundreds of feet below the surface, it heats whatever stone it encounters into molten rock, or magma, which cools after the Subterrene has moved on. …

2009, November, Mark Ellis as James Axler, Outlanders 051: Warlord of the Pit

(rare) A machine for drilling or tunneling underground.

подзе́мная ло́дка

a machine for drilling or tunneling underground


carplane

Outside Bedrock headed for a carplane stop in a meditative mood.

1951, Alfred Elton Van Vogt, The weapon shops of Isher:

Unlike some other fictional portrayals of future family life — which simply place traditional family structures in a high-tech futuristic setting of carplanes, fully automated appliances, interplanetary civilizations, and robot servants […]

2002, David M. Newman, Elizabeth Grauerholz, Sociology of families:

The sides of the carplane will open by moving slowly down under the floor of the car. There won't be any maps and we'll never get lost because carplanes will always know where to go.

2009, Caroline Nixon, Michael Tomlinson, Kid's Box 6 Pupil's Book, Volume 6:

(science fiction) A vehicle that can drive on land like a car or fly like an aeroplane.


battlebus

battlebuses (plural)
battle bus (alternative)

A bus or coach used as a personnel carrier for combatants to deliver them to the battlefield and then rolled on its side to provide cover against firearms.


handcycle

Metzdorf finished the New York City Marathon and an Army Ten-Miler at Fort Bragg using a handcycle.

2007 May 27, The Associated Press, “Marathons Put Military in a Different Light”, in New York Times:

A land vehicle resembling a bicycle or tricycle but powered by the arms rather than the legs.


rustbucket

rustbuckets (plural)
rust-bucket (alternative)
rust bucket (alternative)

That sagging old rustbucket is designed like a garbage scow!

1967, David Gerrold, The Trouble with Tribbles, spoken by Korax:

(slang) An old, neglected vehicle, usually a car, a freighter, or a truck.


GCWR

w:Vehicle weight#Gross combined weight rating

(automotive) Initialism of gross combination weight rating: the maximum weight rating of a vehicle including its contents and the weight of anything being towed.


GVWR

gross vehicle weight rating
gross vehicle weight rating#English

(automotive) Abbreviation of gross vehicle weight rating - Maximum allowed weight of a vehicle and its contents.


andor

andors (plural)
andas (alternative)
andola (alternative)

From Portuguese andor, from Malayalam, from Sanskrit हिन्दोल (hindola, “swinging cradle, hammock litter, dooly”). Compare dooly from Sanskrit दुल् (dul) via Hindi.

P. della Valle writes in the same strain: "And these two, the palankins and the andors [a kind of doli] also differ from one another, for in the andor the cane which sustains it is, as it is in the reti, straight; whereas in the palankin, for the greater convenience of the inmate, and to give more room for raising his head, the cane is arched upwards like this, _∩_..."

1916 July, Henry Yule & al., "Padre Maestro Fray Seb. Manrique in Bengal (1628–Sept. 11, 1629)", Bengal Past & Present, Vol. XIII, No. 25, p. 32

(India, historical) Synonym of dandy or hammock litter, a strong cloth suspended from a pole or set of poles used as an open sedan chair.


golf cart

a small four-wheeled motorized vehicle, used to travel around a golf course.


dooly

doolies (plural)
dhooley (alternative)
dhooly (alternative)
dhouly (alternative)
dhuli (alternative)
dohleh (alternative)
doolae (alternative)
doli (alternative)
doolee (alternative)
dooley (alternative)
doolie (alternative)
dowle (alternative)
dowlee (alternative)
dholie (alternative)

From Hindi डोली (ḍolī), from डोला (ḍolā, “litter”) + -ई (-ī, “forming diminutives”), from Sanskrit दोल (dōlā, “dangling cradle; litter”), from दुल् (dul, “to swing”). Compare andor from Sanskrit हिन्दोल (hindola) via Portuguese.

The dhulí is a slight bamboo framework covered with coarse cloth, about two and a half feet square, with a bedding made of string woven across, on which the passenger sits. It is slung on a stout bamboo pole, and carried by two or four men.

1877, D. B. Allen et al., “A Statistical Account of Bengal”, in Districts of Gayá and Sháhábád, volume 12, pages 81-82:

He said I should not be able to ride much farther, as the pass beyond Sultanpoor was utterly impracticable for horses; coolies, however, awaited me with a dooly, one of those low litters slung on a bamboo, in which you may travel swiftly and without effort, but to the destruction of the digestive organs.

“Not going out this journey,” gasped Bobby, as he was lifted from the doolie. “Not going out this journey.”

1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 153:

(India, now chiefly historical) A basic Indian litter or sedan chair made of poles, ropes, and a seat or cloth.


dropship

en-verb

dropship (third-person singular simple present dropships, present participle dropshipping, simple past and past participle dropshipped)

dropships (present singular third-person)
dropshipping (participle present)
dropshipped (participle past)
dropshipped (past)


bocha

bochas (plural)
bochah (alternative)
boçhah (alternative)
bocho (alternative)
boutcha (alternative)

When the compilation by Williamson was first examined in order to correct his vulgar mode of spelling Hindoostanee words, a good while since, the number seemed so formidable, that innovation, even from a wrong system to a right one, was then indefinitely suspended; but... it would be unjust to postpone emendation any farther... incorrect... bochah,... correct... bocha.

1825, John Borthwick Gilchrist editing Thomas Williamson as The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum..., Appendix No. IV, pp. 652 & 658

Sir Salar Jung was proceeding to the palace of the Nizam on his bocha, a sort of state palanquin, in order to be present at the customary Eed durbar... when two shots in rapid succession were fired.

1868 February 7, "Englishman", "Attempted Assassination of Sir Salar Jung...", Hyderabad Times, Vol. III, p. 41

[…] the Amir-i-Kabir, seated in a "Bocha" (palanquin), had also arrived at the gate of the Royal Palace […]

1931, Server Jung Bahadur, translated by Bahadur Yar Jung, My Life, page 139:

[…] the bocha, the chair-palanquin […]

1995, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, volume 16, page 17:

(India, historical) A two-door sedan chair.


trishaw

Hardman ran to the corner and jumped into a trishaw. The driver was maddeningly slow and stupid.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 378:

“Where are all those uniformed people who are always ready to beat civilians?” asked a trishaw taxi driver, who said he did not want to be identified because he feared retribution.

2008 May 5, The Associated Press, “Cyclone Kills More Than 350 in Myanmar”, in New York Times:


rumbler

(obsolete, slang) A four-wheeled horse-drawn cab.


manumotor

From Latin manus (“hand”) + mōtō (“I move, set in motion”).

(historical) A small wheeled carriage that could be moved by its occupant


maxiscooter

A large motorcycle with a step-through frame.


mobility scooter

en-noun

mobility scooter (plural mobility scooters)

An electric-powered scooter, similar in use to a wheelchair, that is specially designed for disabled and/or elderly people.

scooter para personas con movilidad reducida


motor scooter

motor scooters (plural)
motorscooter (alternative)

A small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.


chariotee

(historical) A light, covered, four-wheeled carriage with two seats.


gestatorial chair

gestatorial chair (plural gestatorial chairs)

A calque of Latin and Italian sedia gestatoria (“carrying chair”).

bor

(historical) A sedan chair used as a portable throne by popes.


whitetop

en-noun

whitetop (countable and uncountable, plural whitetops)

Whitetop is an invasive species in North America.

Lepidium draba
Lepidium draba#Translingual

Lepidium draba (hoary cress, hoary peppercress, perennial peppergrass, tall whitetop), a perennial herb of family Brassicaceae that reproduces by seeds and by horizontal creeping roots.

Rhynchospora colorata (starrush whitetop, white star sedge, white-topped sedge), a plant from the family Cyperaceae.


shandrydan

(dated, Ireland, humorous, derogatory) A vehicle; a carriage or cart.


feller-buncher

feller-bunchers (plural)
feller buncher (alternative)

(forestry) A motorized vehicle, used in logging, that can rapidly cut, gather and fell trees.


double-ripper

(US, dialect, archaic) A kind of sledge made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one in front of the other.


pilentum

(Ancient Rome) A ceremonial chariot or carriage, used by Roman noblewomen.


pump trolley

pump trolleys (plural)
pump-trolley (alternative)

The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates.

1901, George Gipps, The Fighting in North China (up to the Fall of Tientsin City), Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, →OL, page 40:

A gang was sent out on a pump trolley and the inspection car followed.

1910 March 4, “Supply Trade Section: Fairbanks-Morse Inspection Car”, in Railway Age Gazette, volume 48, number 9, page 509:

Immediately after the train had pulled away from St. Peters, Alfred Morrison, section foreman along with his helper, Frank Lindloft, took off with the pump trolley.

1976, J. William Calder, All Aboard, Formac Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 118:

A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism; a handcar.


freightwagon

freightwagons (plural)
freight wagon (alternative US)
freight waggon (alternative UK)
freight-waggon (alternative UK)
freightwaggon (alternative UK)

From freight + wagon. Compare West Frisian frachtwein (“truck, lorry”), Dutch vrachtwagen (“truck, lorry”), German Frachtwagen, Swedish fraktvagn (“cargo truck”).

cog

“Come on, we'd better find out what this ruckus is about,” Jessie said, and they joined the crowd converging on the sheriff's office. In front of the office door was parked a freightwagon, belonging, according to the scrollwork on its high sides, [...]

1985, Wesley Ellis, Lone Star and the Moon Trail Feud:

The freightwagon had already arrived when Lorelei, Angelina and Raul got to the ranch, and it was stuck up to its axels in mud. Raul drew the buckboard up alongside and leaped down. “I put the load inside that old house there!

2006, Linda Lael Miller, McKettrick's Choice:

Saxton rode to where Marcus lay unconscious on a canvas litter stretched across the breadth of a lumbering freightwagon.

2009, S a Carter, The Dark Side of the Mountain:

Old Man Drake brought Charlie's new saddle out on the freightwagon, along with the next load of feed and supplies.

Any vehicle, such as a cart, wagon, lorry, truck, or boxcar, used for carrying or transporting goods; a cargo truck.


goods wagon

(UK) A railway wagon for carrying freight.


freight car

(US) A railway wagon for carrying goods.


kago

kagos (plural)
kago (plural)
cango (alternative)
kango (alternative)

With the long kagos, three coolies are always used, and sometimes four.

(chiefly historical, inexact) Any Japanese litter, inclusive of norimonos and other styles.


car transporter

en-noun

car transporter (plural car transporters)

The normal methods of road delivery are by driving the cars individually, or by car transporters which convey as many as eight vehicles on massive articulated double-deck trailers.

1960 June, “British cars go by rail: I-The L.M.R wins new Anglo-Scottish traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 335:


songthaew

songthaews (plural)
songtaew (alternative)
songthaeo (alternative)

From Thai สองแถว (sɔ̌ɔng-tɛ̌o), from สอง (sɔ̌ɔng, “two”) + แถว (tɛ̌o, “row”).

(Thailand) A pickup truck converted into a shared taxi by the addition of a bench or row of seats along each side of the bed.

Songtaeo

truck used as a shared taxi — see also shared taxi, pickup truck


bajaj

From Indonesian bajaj, ultimately from the name of the manufacturer, Bajaj Auto.


cycle rickshaw

A rickshaw, mostly used as taxi, with two wheels in the back for the carriage and one wheel for steering in the front (or sometimes vice versa), propelled by the action of a driver’s feet upon pedals.


sounding rocket

sounding rocket (plural sounding rockets)

(space science) A suborbital rocket used to launch upper atmosphere, exoatmospheric, and microgravity sondes or probes.


quarter glass

(vehicles) The small triangular-shaped side window on some vehicles, originally used as a vent.


ice cream van

ice cream vans (plural)
ice-cream van (alternative)
icecream van (alternative)

(Australia, UK) A vehicle from which ice cream is sold at the roadside, mostly to children.


yellow cab

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Yellow Cab (novel)
Yellow cab
Yellow cab (stereotype)

Originally selected owing to yellow's high visibility and common in horsedrawn form in Paris and London in the 1800s and New York in the 1880s. Now chiefly associated with the yellow automotive taxicabs popularized around New York by the Yellow Taxicab Co. In reference to sexually available Asian women, a calque of Japanese イエローキャブ (ierō kyabu), from English yellow cab and popularized by Shōko Ieda's 1991 novel by that name, from its female characters' supposed "yellow" skin and the notion they provided "rides" to the general public.

Despite its ubiquity in 1990s Japanese culture, one telephone survey of 200 people conducted in the New York area did not find a single individual familiar with the use of the term "yellow cab" in reference to Japanese or Asian women.

(Japanese, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Asian woman who sleeps with white men, particularly such Japanese women when regarded as a race traitor.


serial killer van

serial killer van (plural serial killer vans)

serial killer vans (plural)
serial-killer van (alternative)

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From the idea that such a van might be suited to abducting somebody.


sack barrow

sack barrows (plural)
sackbarrow (alternative)

(UK) A two-wheeled vehicle used for moving sacks and other heavy items.


sack truck

sack trucks (plural)
sacktruck (alternative)


wrecking car

wrecking cars (plural)
wrecking-car (alternative)

A railway car fitted with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck resulting from an accident.


beach wagon

How many young ladies are there?" asked her mother, beginning to look sober.
"Twelve or fourteen in the class, but I dare say they won't all come."
"Bless me, child, you will have to charter an omnibus to carry them about."
"Why, mother, how can you think of such a thing; not more than six or eight will probably come, so I shall hire a beach-wagon and borrow Mr. Laurence's cherry-bounce." (Hannah's pronunciation of char-a-banc.)

1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 26, in Little Women: […], part second, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

The Scottsburg road from Drain's was the one usually taken. At the former place the stage was abandoned for a small steamer to Gardiner, or to the mouth of the river (I took the mail-carrier's small boat from Gardiner to the coast), whence a beach-wagon conveyed passengers twenty miles to the north side of Coos Bay, where they were met by a steamer and taken across to Empire City. The beach ride is wearisome, with the perpetual roll of the broad-tire wheels over the unelastic wet sand, and the constant view of a restless waste of water on one hand, with dry, drifting sand between us and the mountains on the other, varied only with patches of marsh and groups of scraggy pines at intervals.

1891, Frances Fuller Victor, Atlantis Arisen, Chapter 10:

(historical) A light open wagon with two or more seats, designed to transport people on sand.


electric vehicle

electric vehicle (plural electric vehicles)

By the middle of the decade, he [Clive Sinclair] had sold his computer businesses and moved on to transportation with the Sinclair C5 electric vehicle, which was designed with a single seat but, bafflingly for as wet and chilly a country as Britain, without a roof.

2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times:

His car company, Tesla, controls two-thirds of the multibillion-dollar electric-vehicle market it pioneered and is valued at a cool $1 trillion.

December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time:

A vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion; most especially, an e-car or e-truck.

BEV

battery electric vehicle; an EV that is fully electric as opposed to hybrid electric

HEV

hybrid electric vehicle; an EV that has both an electric powertrain and an ICE for charging and/or propulsion

e-skateboard

usually used coordinately rather than hyponymously, when the governing mental schema implicitly restricts EVs to the larger, heavier vehicles


stoneboat

They looped ropes around the stiff legbones of the first cow and pulled her body toward the stoneboat, resting between spurts of hauling.

1984, Lois Phillips Hudson, The Bones of Plenty, page 204:

Each night the builder and the horse and the empty stone-boat left for the mountain.

2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 59:

A kind of sled for moving heavy objects.


lozenge coach

August 21 1746, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
I am retired hither like an old summer dowager ; only that I have no toad - eater to take the air with me in the back part of my lozenge - coach

(historical) The coach of a dowager, having her coat of arms painted on a lozenge.


giraffe unicycle

giraffe unicycle (plural giraffe unicycles)

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Because giraffes are generally tall and slim.

Gino Farfan is a wizard on the flying trapeze, and Barry Lappy does amazing tricks on a "giraffe" unicycle that's taller than he is.

1976 September, “Coming Up in Boys' Life for October”, in Boys' Life, volume 66, number 9, page 82:

Before dark we pull down the five-foot giraffe unicycle and put KariAnna up on it.

2004, Lars Clausen, One Wheel, Many Spokes: USA by Unicycle, Straight Into Gay America, →ISBN, page 149:

Another person she's heard about can ride a giraffe unicycle on the wire, and perform a back tuck off the unicycle and land on the wire.

2007, Scott McCredie, Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense, New York: Little, Brown, and Co., →ISBN:


baradari

baradari (countable and uncountable, plural baradaris)

baradaris (plural)
biradari (alternative)
biraderi (alternative)
bradree (alternative)

From Persian برادری (barâdari, “brotherhood”), from برادر (barâdar, “brother”) + ـی (-i, “-y, -hood”), q.v.

bor

(South Asia) A system of social strata that dictate political alliances among South Asian Muslims.


loser cruiser

In Chappaqua, few self-respecting high school students will ride the bus, derided as the "loser cruiser," preferring to get rides from parents or other students.

2000 September 24, Merri Rosenberg, “A Shortage of Parking Spaces Plagues the County's High Schools”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-13:

Before I took the first European Megabus on Monday, a friend disparaged the coach as a "loser cruiser".

2012 April 20, Simon Calder, “'Loser cruiser' or the modern way to Paris?”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-06-13:

We are all going to be riding the Bus (aka loser cruiser) down to the Unemployment office to receive our Government Benefits pretty soon.

2012 June 4, Mike Jones, “Comments: Use of public transit is soaring in 2012”, in USA Today, retrieved 2014-06-13:

If you ride the "loser cruiser," the government figures you get what you deserve. Air conditioned bus indeed!

2014 May 14, skessel, "Comments: MassDOT board expected to approve MBTA fare hikes," Boston Globe (retrieved 13 June 2014)


playmobile

A vehicle that visits different neighborhoods to allow local children to play with recreational equipment.


sherut

From Hebrew שירות /שֵׁרוּת (sherút, “service”), ellipsis of מוֹנִית שֵׁרוּת (monít sherút, “shuttle taxi”).

שירות//שֵׁרוּת

ellipsis

מוֹנִית שֵׁרוּת

I catch a sherut from the corner of Ben Yehuda that'll take me into the centre of Tel Aviv […].

1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 24:


mailcoach

(historical) A horse-drawn coach used to deliver mail.


single-decker

From single + decker, from deck (“floor, level”).

I travelled home on a crowded single-decker - over half of the passengers were schoolchildren.

(especially UK) a single-deck bus, which has only one level for passengers, unlike a double-decker.


tractor unit

a large road vehicle, usually consisting of a two or three-axled chassis, and fitted with a cab, engine and drivetrain, used for hauling semitrailers.


zipper machine

Seen from above, the machine's action might resemble that of a zip fastener.

(slang) A heavy vehicle used to transfer concrete lane dividers on a roadway.


motor trade

en-noun

motor trade (countable and uncountable, plural motor trades)

(UK) Those businesses involved in the buying and selling of motor vehicles, supply of spare parts, and the repair of vehicles.


kajawah

kajawahs (plural)
kajawa (alternative)
kajava (alternative)
kujawah (alternative)
cajua (alternative)
cajava (alternative)
kedgwa (alternative)
kedgway (alternative)
cedgeway (alternative)
cadjowa (alternative)
kedjavé (alternative)
kerjava (alternative)
kidjawah (alternative)
kidjahwah (alternative)
khajawah (alternative)
kajaweh (alternative)
kajavah (alternative)

From Hindi कजावा (kajāvā), from Urdu and Classical Persian کجاوه (kajāwa, “kajawah, howdah”).

der

For men and women who suffer from being in the saddle for so many hours, there is a choice between the "kerjava" and the "takht-i-rawan." The kerjava, in its best appearance, takes the form of two very small gypsy tents made of light bands of wood, the top bent circular, and covered with shawls or carpets. In each of these tents a man or woman sits after the kerjavas have been slung, like panniers, across the saddle of a strong mule. In the kerjava one must sit cross-legged, or with one's feet hanging out.

1877, Robert Arthur Arnold, Through Persia by Caravan, page 125:

(Middle East, historical) Similar vehicles borne by other animals.


emergency vehicle

en-noun

emergency vehicle (plural emergency vehicles)

A vehicle that is designated to respond to an emergency, such as a police car, ambulance, fire engine or lifeboat.


daladala

daladalas (plural)
dala dala (alternative)
dala-dala (alternative)

From Swahili daladala, duplicated call of dala (“5-shilling coin”), from English dollar, q.v. Compare US dollar van.


carromata

From Philippine Spanish carromata, from Spanish carromato + -a. Compare Tagalog karomata, Cebuano karomata.

(Philippines, historical) A light two-wheeled, horse-drawn passenger carriage with a tilt roof used to convey passengers within city limits or for countryside travelling.


company car

A car, provided by an employer, that an employee may use on company business and personal use.


breedermobile

What is there, a line of breedermobiles (minivans) waiting at the bus stop?

1998 March 26, GHarris938 [username], “Re: Buses”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

Someone wrote about being stuck behind a breedermobile with the license plate "5OFUS" I was about to post "I read that as '50 of us.' Shudder"

1998 September 9, Beth George, “Re: Very weird theory”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

Last night I went to the local Target to resupply cat litter. I noticed a breedermobile, loaded with a litter, pulling into a handicapped space... without a handicap permit or handicap plates.

2007 May 17, REP, “Fun With Breeders, or Dude, Where's Our Car”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory) A vehicle (particularly a minivan) used by parents to transport their child/children.


jaun

Who did not know that office Jaun of pale Pomona green,
 With its drab and yellow lining, and picked out black between,
 Which down the Esplanade did go at the ninth hour of the day […]

1851, Henry Meredith Parker, Bole Ponjis:

A large number of accidents are also caused by office jauns which as a class are driven too fast and by inexperienced men. It has been suggested that these jauns should be registered and numbered and their drivers licensed.

1917, Reginald Clarke, Annual Report on the Police Administration of the Town of Calcutta and Its Suburbs, page 142:

(India, historical) Synonym of litter, particularly those of the upper middle class in 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century Kolkata.


Birmingham dribbler

Birmingham dribbler (plural Birmingham dribblers)

Many were made in Birmingham, England, and they were known for leaving a trail of water behind them as they ran across the floor.

An early model of a steam locomotive, popular in Victorian times.


veteran car

(British) A car built before 1919, or, even more strictly, before 1905.


private car

In the days before televised press conferences, or debates between Presidential contenders, the railroads carried the politicians to the people. Here, President Truman addresses a crowd from the verandah of his private car, at Sacramento during the 1952 campaign.

1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, →ISBN, page 11, photo caption:

(rail transport, US) A railroad passenger car that is either privately owned or used privately, or both.


landwhale

landwhales (plural)
land whale (alternative)

There is nothing else to hit on here except fat girls so the landwhales just assume that since they have no problem getting dates that it's all right to be fat.

1985, John J. Burke IV, "One male's opinion" [letter to the editor], The Pointer (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), Volume 29, Number 13, 21 November 1985, page 28

That's less lazy people getting Social Security, or taking jobs that us normal-sized people need. Eat yourself to death, landwhales!

2006 October, “Hearsay”, in Skinnie Magazine, page 24:

The Captain guy was talking now. Sounded official. Trim build. Looked in good shape for someone in his fifties. From what he could scope out. Interesting. Not all Americans were landwhales by thirty.

2014, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse, published 2010, →ISBN:

All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled


Greyhound

I'm just taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River line / Because I'm in a New York state of mind

1976, Billy Joel, “New York State of Mind”, in Turnstiles:


invalid carriage

invalid carriage (plural invalid carriages)

(chiefly UK, history) A three-wheeled motor vehicle allowing disabled people to drive on the road, no longer used because of safety concerns.


snow groomer

A vehicle used to prepare snow for recreational uses, such as skiing.


motor caravan

motor caravans (plural)
motorcaravan (alternative)

A motorised caravan; camper, motor home, recreational vehicle


motorcycle taxi

motorcycle taxi (plural motorcycle taxis)

motorcycle taxis (plural)
motortaxi (alternative)

A motorcycle which transports passengers in return for payment.


family car

a car that is suitable for and large enough for a family.


hopper car

(rail transport, US) A railroad freight car which is used to transport bulk materials in a hopper, the load being usually discharged through one or more hinged doors at the bottom of the car.


straight-eight

straight-eights (plural)
straight eight (alternative)

(automotive) A vehicle, usually a large car, with an engine of this kind.


removal van

(UK) An enclosed vehicle which is used for moving furniture and other belongings when moving house.

stěhovací vůz

a vehicle for moving furniture and other household goods


dumpcart

dumpcarts (plural)
dump cart (alternative)
dump-cart (alternative)

When James' Bay mud flats had become too "towny" to be a rubbish heap any more, the little two-wheeled, one-horse dump-carts trundled their loads of garbage to the unmade end of Cook Street and spilled it among the boggy ooze.

1942, Emily Carr, “Cook Street”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

1955, Albert Camus, "The Minotaur, or the Stop in Oran" (1939), translated by Justin O'Brien, New York: Vintage, 1991, p. 176,
Farther on, dump-carts tip their loads over the slopes; and the rocks, suddenly poured seaward, bound and roll into the water, each large lump followed by a scattering of lighter stones.

A cart, often two-wheeled, that can be tilted to empty its contents; a tumbril.


people pod

people pods (plural)
people-pod (alternative)

Its concept is as follows: "Passengers are to be transported from the terminal together with baggage in a detachable bus-like compartment called a people pod on a lift truck.

1956, Jet Age Planning: Quarterly Progress Report - Issue 1, page 15:

Some of the concepts involved, which ought to be applicable elsewhere, are: people pods, as shown at the Cleveland show last June, which pick up unit loads of passengers for direct transportation to aircraft at the runway;

1957, Modern Materials Handling - Volume 12, page 198:

An unusual sight at the recent Northwestern Lumbermen's Association convention in Minneapolis was the Youngblood Express, a "people pod" coupled with a 20,000-pound straddle carrier.

1958, American Lumberman & Building Products Merchandiser, page 126:

Typical estimates for advanced design passenger handling systems are as follows: Boarding bridge over wing: approximately $300,000 each. People pod lounges: approximately $200,000 each. Mobile escalators: $70,000–100,000 each.

1968, United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, Subcommittee on Economic Progress, Public Facility Requirements Over the Next Decade:

A bus-like compartment carried by a lift truck, proposed in the late 1950s for transporting people and luggage from the airport terminal to an aircraft.


pedal cycle

A vehicle powered by a person by means of pedals, such as a unicycle, bicycle, tricycle or quadricycle.


tonjon

tonjons (plural)
tomjohn (alternative)
tamjan (alternative)

The old tonjons were still to be seen in the basement at Barrackpore some years before my time, but when I enquired for them, they had disappeared.

1925, George Nathaniel Curzon, British Government in India, volume II, page 21:

The equivalent for the men-folk, apart from those who rode on horse-back was the tonjon, which was a kind of open chair with poles extending at the back and front and carried by four coolies in the same way as the palki... The tonjon went out of use many year ago.

1931 June, Frank E. Bushby, "Old-Time Conveyances in Calcutta", Bengal Past & Present, Vol. XLI, Nos. 81–82, p. 139

(South Asia, chiefly historical) An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back.


Leyland

en-proper noun

Leyland (countable and uncountable, plural Leylands)

Yellowhead County
Yellowhead County#English

A locality in Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada.


way way back

(US, slang) The third row of seats in a station wagon, especially rear-facing.


bin lorry

(UK, informal) a special-purpose vehicle for the collection of domestic (and commercial) waste.


dragline

Much of this material was taken from land adjoining the railway by draglines and bulldozers.

1949 January and February, “Notes and News: Replacement of Bridges”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:

The drainage ditches were constructed with a dragline and were of sufficient width so that it was considered unnecessary to deepen or clear them during the course of the study.

1973 March, Cortland E. Young, Jr., R. H. Brendemuehl, “Methods”, in Response of Slash Pine to Drainage and Rainfall (USDA Forest Service Research Note; SE-186), Ashevill, N.C.: Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, →OCLC, page 3:

In smaller lagoons (with radius less than about 30 feet), a backhoe is more efficient, while larger lagoons may require the use of a clamshell or a dragline for mixing.

1994, Hari D. Sharma, Sangeeta P. Lewis, “Sludge Solidification and Stabilization”, in Waste Containment Systems, Waste Stabilization, and Landfills: Design and Evaluation, New York, N.Y.: Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, section 6.5.3 (Full-scale Treatment Operations), page 309:

dragline excavator
dragline excavator#English

dragline

ellipsis of dragline excavator — see also dragline excavator


tiller truck

From tiller + truck. From having rear-wheel steering similar to a boat's tiller, on the truck.

A type of firetruck, an aerial ladder truck that is articulated with a tillerman's position to steer the rear of the trailer into tight spaces.


rulley

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When a trolley was fully loaded it was moved to a narrow platform (called a butting strip) against which rulleys [f]or the various town delivery districts were backed, and the goods were transferred from the trolley to the rulleys.

1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85:

We picked up the Ellerbecks at the Station — as Chapel Steward he'd been kept a seat at Mr Dowthwaite's right hand on the first rulley — then on to town where market day slowed us to a walk and, sometimes, a halt, as other wagons manoeuvred on the cobbled square.

1982 [1980], J L Carr, A Month in the Country, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books/Harvester Press, →ISBN, page 97:

(UK, Yorkshire) A four-wheeled horse- or tractor-drawn wagon, usually with low or non-existent sides, used for farm work, to carry goods and, on occasion, people. Fixed rear axle, turntable front axle.


gurry-butt

gurry-butts (plural)
gurry-but (alternative)

"'Wouldn't hev your conscience fer a thousand quintal," said Dan. "Turn in, Penn. You've no call to do boy's work. Draw a bucket, Harvey. Oh, Penn, dump these in the gurry-butt 'fore you sleep. Kin you keep awake that long?"¶ Penn took up the heavy basket of fish-livers, emptied them into a cask with a hinged top lashed by the foc'sle; then he too dropped out of sight in the cabin.

1897, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 2, in Captains Courageous:

(obsolete) A large cask used for holding fish offal.


ox-butt

The ox-butt has been long established in Cornwall, and is a kind of cart drawn by oxen in yokes.

1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, page 352:

(West Country, obsolete) An ox-drawn cart.


slide-butt

The slide-butt is a strong, oblong box, sufficiently capacious to hold three or four common wheel-barrows of earth or compost; it is shod with thing rough pieces of timber, and is convenient of spreading dressing over field, in small heaps. Two oxen, or one horse are employed to draw it.

SLIDE-BUTT, in Agriculture, a sort of sledge in the form of a strong oblong box, shod underneath with thick pieces of timber. It is chiefly used for drawing manure from place to place, but chiefly in fields. It will contain about three wheel-barrows' full. Sometimes the butt has wheels, and when this is the case it is called a gurry.

1827, Alexander Jamieson, A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures and Miscellaneous Knowledge, page 943:

(West Country, obsolete) A horse- or ox-drawn cart, with runners instead of wheels, used for carrying dung.


okada

1990s, from the now defunct Nigerian airline, Okada Air, nicknamed so because they could manoeuvre through the heavy traffic of Lagos and take passengers to their destinations in a timely manner, in the same way as the airline. Originates from the Ẹ̀dó town of Okada.

By the glittering blue lagoon, I stood next to the main ring road to flag down a motorcycle taxi, or okada. Okadas are the scourge of Nigeria's roads.

2012, Noo Saro-Wiwa, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, page 34:


power car

The inner power cars are brake second class compartment coaches; the guard has means of both bell and two-way telephone communication with the driving compartment.

1960 September, “Inter-city diesel units for the Hull-Liverpool service of the N.E.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 560:

A vehicle that propels, and commonly also controls, a passenger train or tram, often as the lead vehicle.


danfo

"You crazy? Look where you day go, you bloody fool!" the man screamed at me as he shoved me into the path of a danfo which barely missed me. The bus conductor, who was standing on the steps of the danfo, leaned over, struck me on the side of my head, and gave me another shove that sent me back on the sidewalk into a final collision course with yet another pedestrian.

2010, Love P. Maya, Off The Village Mat, →ISBN, page 75:

Daring the consequence and to maintain his earlier position ahead of Adekunle, the danfo driver could have gone ahead to attempt hitting Adekunle's car. Danfo bus drivers often behaved that way.

2011, Emeke Obi, Bond of Three, →ISBN, page 123:

Danfo were classier and more expensive than bolekaja. Almost every danfo was painted yellow and on the side of the driver's door, in black, was “driver and 2 passengers.”

2015, Tade Thompson, Making Wolf, →ISBN:

The bus ride to the city was another three hours. It would likely have just been two had not the danfo broken down twice.

2016, Leopoldo Gout, Genius: The Game, →ISBN, page 82:

Ogboh has also focused critical attention on the familiar avatars of Lagos in popular imagination as visual signifiers that also drive its soundscapes, such as the ubiquitous yellow commercial kombi buses, popularly called danfo. The typical danfo is a VW transporter bus, painted in cadmium yellow with two black stripes.

2017, Arnd Schneider, Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters, →ISBN, page 39:

(Nigeria) Synonym of shared taxi, especially a minibus operated as a shared taxi.


achaba

I flagged down a passing achaba and rode into town, where my achaba man asked passers-by for directions to the conservation project.

2012, Noo Saro-Wiwa, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, page 163:


food truck

food trucks (plural)
food-truck (alternative)
foodtruck (alternative)

→ Dutch: food truck

desc

French: → foodtruck, food-truck, food truck, → camion-restaurant (calque)

→ Indonesian: truk makanan (calque)

→ Italian: food truck

→ Japanese: フードトラック (fūdotorakku)

→ Korean: 푸드트럭 (pudeuteureok) (calque)

→ Portuguese: food truck

→ Russian: фудтрак (fudtrak)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-food truck.wav

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see food, truck.


tartanilla

From Cebuano tartanilya, from Spanish tartana + -illa, from Occitan tartano.

suffix

Spanish <i class="Latn mention" lang="es">tartana</i>

(chiefly Cebu) A buggy; a small lightweight carriage, usually pulled by a single horse.


tro tro

(Ghana) A minibus operated as a shared taxi.


horse and carriage

en-noun

horse and carriage (plural horses and carriages)

(British, US) A light, simple, two-person carriage of the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn usually by one or sometimes by two horses.


horse and buggy

horse and buggy (plural horses and buggies)


Yammy

(informal) A product manufactured by Yamaha Corporation, such as a piano, guitar or motorcycle.


koneke

konekes (plural)
koneke (plural)
konaki (alternative)

There are the tracks of sledge runners on the narrowing road; that lonely farmhouse around the next bend, a dairy farm twelve hundred feet or more above the harbour level, sends its milk-cans down to the bay by the old-style bush koneke that is the only means of conveyance on some of these lofty roads.

1931, New Zealand Railways Magazine - Volume 6:

I have been shocked to see young children put on a koneke loaded with hay, with the tractor in crawler gear moving down a hill and the farmer pitching off bales of hay.

1965, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary Debates: House of Representatives, page 2835:

He used to blow his stack properly when he had his three-horse team hitched up to a koneke load of fertiliser.

1967, James Sanders, The time of my life: an autobiography, page 47:

A farm vehicle used in New Zealand that has wheels in the back like a cart and runners in front like a sledge.


recovery vehicle

recovery vehicle (plural recovery vehicles)

He said it was possible the main crane could directly reach some of the wrecked vehicles, but that others might need to be moved within reach using a Kirow rail crane or an Army armoured recovery vehicle such as a CRARRV.

2020 August 26, “Network News: Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 10:

A vehicle designed and equipped for the recovery of other vehicles, which have either broken down, got stuck, or been involved in an accident.


Moon buggy

Moon buggies (plural)
moon buggy (alternative)

Blend of Moon + dune buggy. Coined in analogy to the dune buggy, for a vehicle roving on the sands of the Moon.

A manned wheeled vehicle used to traverse the surface of Earth's Moon.


stretch limousine

stretch limousine (plural stretch limousines)

And everywhere I went, I drew lots of attention / Like a stretch limousine, one of those new inventions

1985, “If I Ruled The World”, in America, performed by Kurtis Blow:

A luxury car which is especially built to be longer than normal.


decotora

decotoras (plural)
dekotora (alternative)

From Japanese dekotora (dekotora), from デコトラ, from デコ+トラ, from デコレーション (“dekorēshon (dekorēshon)”) + トラッ (“torakku (torakku)”), from English decorated + truck.

A genre of Japanese big trucks, which are customized by their owner-operators into graphic and sculptural displays which also carry loads.


Boris bus

Named after Boris Johnson, mayor of London from 2008–2016.

Sadiq Khan has dumped the "Boris bus", a key part of the now foreign secretary's legacy as London mayor, because it is too expensive to produce.

2016 December 31, Daniel Boffey, “London's 'Boris bus' reaches end of road as Sadiq Khan halts purchases”, in The Guardian:

The new Routemaster (dubbed the “Boris Bus”) was a hybrid diesel-electric double-decker that retained the “hop-on, hop-off” rear open platform of the original Routemasters but with updated features that made it fully accessible.

[2022, Victoria R. Williams, London: Geography, History, and Culture, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

(UK, informal) A particular type of double-decker bus used in London, as popularized by mayor Boris Johnson; New Routemaster.


hurly-hacket

From hurl (“to convey in a wheeled vehicle”).

(Scotland, obsolete) A badly-hung carriage.


horse litter

horse litters (plural)
horse-litter (alternative)
horselitter (alternative)

/ˈhɔːsˌlɪtə/

A litter pulled or borne by one horse or borne on poles borne by two or more horses.

takhtrawan

enclosed Middle Eastern & South Asian form


galamander

/ˈɡæləmændə/

/ˈɡæləˌmændəɹ/

Unknown; said to have been coined by an American blacksmith Elder Littlefield, and possibly from galley (“type of boat”) + meander (“to turn or wind in a course or passage”).

coinage

Down at Vinalhaven, Me., which has just been celebrating its sesquicentennial, they used to use what they called a "galamander" to carry heavy stones from the granite quarries. The "galamander" is a combination stone-boat on wheels and a derrick.

1939 July 10, “Odd items from everywhere”, in The Boston Globe, volume CXXXVI, number 10, Boston, Mass.: The Globe Newspaper Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 2:

Galamanders, drawn by oxen or horses, transported the blocks to the cutting sheds, which were usually located near the wharfs. Galamanders were elongated four-wheeled wagons equipped with derricks and the wheels of these locally made wagons were eight or nine feet in diameter. Maine galamanders are few today.

1956 August 12, Esther E[lizabeth] Wood, “Granite quarries brought prosperity to Maine coastal areas”, in Portland Sunday Telegram and Sunday Press Herald, volume 70, number 13, Portland, Me.: Guy Gannett Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47, column 4:

One hundred years ago, when Granite Hill was being mined, Peter Cain imagines a galamander was used to haul the stone blocks to the docks in Hallowell. The galamander – no one's quite sure where the name came from – was a cart-like contraption made of wood and wrought iron that could transport a block of granite weighing 20 tons. […] [T]here were two abandoned galamanders in the island's quarries at one time.

1979 May 17, Martha Durrance, “Galamanders: Restoring a forgotten tool”, in Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Me.: Jean Gannett Hawley, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23, column 1:

"I think so too. And this is a galamander. You know this is the Galamander District?" / "So that's a galamander. Why it's just a cart, and I thought a galamander was some kind of animal, you know like a salamander."

1993, Elizabeth Richman, chapter 3, in Be Jubilant, My Heart! […], Nashville, Tenn.: Star Song Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 30:

A relic of the island's quarrying days, the galamander was a massive oak and iron wagon with nine-foot rear wheels. It had once been used to carry slabs of granite from the quarries to the cutting sheds. […] Since then, the galamander had been set up as a memorial to the industry―long since gone―and had doubled as a kind of jungle gym for generations of island kids.

1999, David A[rthur] Crossman, “Something Spooky”, in The Secret of the Missing Grave, Camden, Me.: Down East Books, →ISBN, page 104:

Until the use of railroad cars, teams of oxen and horses hauled stones, often in a special wagon equipped with a derrick or crane called a "galamander." […] It is reported that well into the twentieth century there were as many as six galamanders working in the Sands Quarry on Vinalhaven during an average day. Four teams of horses drew the largest galamander, named Jumbo. Today, a restored galamander sits on Vinalhaven's village green, a symbol of an era when granite was king.

2009, Harry Gratwick, “Heavy Freight: When Vinalhaven Granite Traveled the Country”, in Penobscot Bay: People, Ports & Pastimes (American Chronicles), Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, published 2011, →ISBN, part V (Penobscot Bay and beyond):

(Maine, mining, historical) A customized horse- or ox-drawn stoneboat or wagon once used for hauling stone from quarries, with smaller front wheels and larger rear ones, and a derrick to lift blocks of stone on and off the vehicle.

Kennebec Journal
Robertson Quarry Galamander


dollar van

From their usual fare in the late 20th century.

Easy transfer there to a dollar van that’s cruising for a pickup.

2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 43:

(US) Synonym of shared taxi or shuttle bus, especially a van or minibus operated as a taxi or shuttle bus for a usual fee of one US dollar.


tractor trailer

en-noun

tractor trailer (plural tractor trailers)


e-scooter

e-scooters (plural)
escooter (alternative)
E-Scooter (alternative)

Transport for London and the Tyne & Wear Metro have banned the use of privately owned e-scooters on railway premises from December 13, while ScotRail and Avanti West Coast are also restricting their use. The London edict, with warnings of £1,000 fines for offenders, follows two instances of e-scooters catching fire when their lithium-ion batteries ruptured [...].

2021 December 29, “Network News: E-scooters ban widens after fires”, in RAIL, number 947, page 12:

A variant of a kick scooter powered by an electric motor.


box van

A truck with an enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area.

bakwagen

truck with enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area


open-topper

open-toppers (plural)
open topper (alternative)

(UK) A double-deck bus with an open, or partially open, top deck.


open-top bus

At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.

1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:

(vehicles, UK) A double-deck bus with an open, or partially open, top deck.


freight wagon

ROL saw a potential market for the movement of intermodal traffic at speeds of up to 100mph, which would be easier to path alongside passenger services, using a new design of freight wagon.

2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 52:

(rail transport, UK) A railroad car used to carry freight.