stretcher

The jointed stretcher is used in place of the sectional bottom board, with two sideboards, one each side of stretcher. The boat set up this way only weights 20 pounds, and makes a very convenient boat for trout-fishing, duck-hunting, or exploring in ponds or streams where the paddle will do as well as the oars.

1884, J. W. Collins, Bulletin of the United States National Museum: Great International Fisheries Exhibition, page 703:

Directly the oar has been disengaged from the water, all pressure on the stretcher ceases, and the strain of the recovery of the body is eased by a slight pull with the feet on the straps of the stretcher.

1900, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson, The Young Sportsman, page 479:

Betwean each beam of the boat is also fastened a piece of timber called a stretcher or footspur, against which they place their feet when rowing, to enable them to have a more complete command of their oar.

1909, Samuel McSkimin, The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus, from the Earliest Records Till 1839, page 362:

Each rower's feet are set in shoes which are secured in the boat in a stretcher (or foot board) set into a fixed position to suit the length of the rower's legs.

2003, J. Alswang, The South African Dictionary of Sport, page 203:

[…] these seem to indicate a thwart, foot-timber (stretcher), thole-pin combination for rowing.

2014, Sean Mcgrail, Ancient Boats in North-West Europe, page 80:

(nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.

jalkatuki

nautical: board against which a rower places his feet


wheelbarrow

en-verb

wheelbarrow (third-person singular simple present wheelbarrows, present participle wheelbarrowing, simple past and past participle wheelbarrowed)

wheelbarrows (present singular third-person)
wheelbarrowing (participle present)
wheelbarrowed (participle past)
wheelbarrowed (past)

/ˈʍiːl.bæɹ.əʊ/

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

From Middle English whelbarwe; equivalent to wheel + barrow.

(transitive, aviation) To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become concentrated around the nosewheel.


windscreen

Oh no! A vandal has just smashed our windscreen! Susan, can you go and call the insurance company?

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front of a vehicle in order to protect its occupants from the wind and weather.

(military) A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.

As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.

1951 October, “Models Assist Rolling Stock Design”, in Railway Magazine, page 647:

A draught screen at the side of a passenger train doorway.


windshield

The freezing rain covered our windshield with ice and we couldn't see a thing.

For example, when trailers containing new automobiles were first piggybacked two areas of potential damage became evident: (1) diesel locomotive exhaust left a film of oil on the new autos; and (2) auto windshields could be scarred or cracked by the metal-tipped "tell-tales" which warn men atop trains of oncoming bridges or tunnels.

1960 November 16, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:

I was at Park Safari Africa in Canada on the Canadian border. This was years ago outside of Plattsburgh, New York. And I had a new car at the time, and I was driving through, going through the monkey area. And they said 'beware of the monkeys.' So about ten of them circled my car. And this one special one, like he was the leader of the pack, jumped up on the hood and came right up to the windshield and looked in. So I was like making faces at him. [garbled] 'don't do that!' And believe it or not, he made like a face back. He jumped off the car. He took his fingernails and he peeled all the chrome on both sides of my car off. Picked it up, jumped on the hood, dropped it and left- looked at me and left.

2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Pat, 34:52 from the start, in Penn Radio:

The new report said 413 million yuan spent on train windshields was wasted when design specifications were changed in March 2011, three months before the line opened.[…]
It found that Beichen district government in Tianjin had 340 million yuan in its own accounts instead of being paid promptly in compensation for land procured for the railway.

2012 March 19, Zhou Xin, Nick Edwards, “China audit details fraud, waste at Beijing-Shanghai railway”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING (Reuters), archived from the original on 2024-07-04, World:

Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.

2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times:

(Canada, US, Philippines) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind force generated by the vehicle's speed and inclement weather.

bitaʼ

screen located in front of a vehicle to protect from wind and weather


cruiser

(nautical, in the days of sail) A frigate or other vessel, detached from the fleet, to cruise independently in search of the enemy or its merchant ships.

(military, nautical) A class of fast warships of medium tonnage, having a long cruising range but less armour and firepower than a battleship.

(science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role

(nautical) A passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are considered an essential part of the experience.


windscreen wiper

en-noun

windscreen wiper (plural windscreen wipers)

(automobiles, British, Australia, New Zealand) A device used to clear rain and dirt from a windscreen; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade; a windshield wiper.


windshield wiper

windshield wiper (plural windshield wipers)

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2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time:

(automobiles, US, Canada) a device used to clear rain and dirt from a windshield; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade


Blue Riband

(motorcycling) An award from the British Motorcycling Federation for advanced riding.


brig

desctree

→ French: brick
→ Romanian: bric
→ Ottoman Turkish: بریق (brik)
Turkish: brik

→ Irish: bruig

→ Portuguese: brigue

Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

(nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast


brigantine

Attested 1525, for a small rowing vessel, from earlier brigandyns, from Middle French brigandin, probably from Italian brigante (“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”), from Latin brigō (“to fight”).

der

The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines,
That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe,
And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke,
Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

(nautical) a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.

brigantina

square-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel


dashboard

/ˈdæʃˌbɔː(ɹ)d/

/ˈdæʃˌboəɹd/

/ˈdæʃˌbɔːɹd/

From dash (“to sprinkle; to splatter”) + board for meaning 1. Possibly expanded meaning later.


undercarriage

/ˈʌndɚˌkɛɹɪd͡ʒ/

/ˈʌndəˌkæɹɪd͡ʒ/

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tandem

en-noun

tandem (countable and uncountable, plural tandems)

PIE word
 *téh₂m
The noun is borrowed from Latin tandem (“of time: at last, at length, finally”), applied humorously in English to two horses harnessed “at length” (that is, in a single line) instead of side-by-side. Tandem is derived from tam (“so, to such an extent”) + -dem (demonstrative suffix).
The adjective, adverb, and verb are derived from the noun.

tandem

carriage pulled by two or more draught animals harnessed one behind the other; two draught animals harnessed one behind the other

tandem-

[H]e was a man whose head was at this time entirely full of gigs, and tandems, and unicorns: business was his aversion; pleasure was his business.

1804, Maria Edgeworth, “The Contrast. Chapter II. Ignorance of Things, into which It is a Duty to Enquire, is the Cause of Many Odious Vices.”, in Popular Tales, volume III, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, […], [b]y C. Mercier and Co., […], →OCLC, page 30:

A friend of mine accompanies me in my carriage to Edinburgh. There we shall leave it, and proceed in a tandem (a species of open carriage) through the western passes to Inverary, where we shall purchase shelties, to enable us to view places inaccessible to vehicular conveyances.

1807 August 11, Lord Byron, “Letter XVII. To Miss ——.”, in Thomas Moore, editor, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1830, →OCLC, pages 118–119:

Mr. Foker was no more like a gentleman now than in his school days: and yet Pen felt a secret pride in strutting down High Street with a young fellow who owned tandems, talked to officers, and ordered turtle and champagne for dinner.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In which Pendennis Appears as a Very Young Man Indeed”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 31:

The chief characteristic of this set was the most reckless extravagance of every kind. […] They drove tandems in all directions, scattering their ample allowances, which they treated as pocket money, about roadside inns and Oxford taverns with open hand, and going tick for every thing which could by possibility be booked.

1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “St. Ambrose’s College”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 3:

(countable) A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing pulling power but only the animal in front being able to steer.

Later in the day the Row is empty, but, on the other hand, the pleasure horse monopolises the circle, now comparatively deserted. Singly, in pairs, tandems, and fours, he draws the family carriage with a lozenge on the panels, the brougham of the fashionable doctor, the coupé of the popular actress, the man about town's smart dog-cart.

[1903], Charles Dudley, “Equine London”, in George R[obert] Sims, editor, Living London: Its Work and Its Play, Its Humour and Its Pathos, Its Sights and Its Scenes, special edition, volume II, section I, London: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, pages 158–159, column 2:

Two draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other.

A thing with two components arranged one behind the other.

(specifically, cycling) Short for tandem bicycle (“a bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front being able to steer”).

tandem bicycle

Stubb's whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Stubb’s Supper”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 324:

(countable) A group of two or more machines, people, etc., working together; hence (uncountable), close collaboration.


tandem

Their skillful tandem work made the project quick and successful.

(figurative) Working together collaboratively; collaborative, cooperative.

заедно

working together collaboratively — see also collaborative, cooperative


tandem

en-verb

tandem (third-person singular simple present tandems, present participle tandeming, simple past and past participle tandemed)

tandems (present singular third-person)
tandeming (participle present)
tandemed (participle past)
tandemed (past)

[O]ur dog-cart having come to hand, from the hilliness of the road, we tandemed the ten miles due west, along the southern shore of Clew Bay.

1861, “a retired civil engineer” [pseudonym], “Westport—The Killeries”, in Ierne. Or, Anecdotes and Incidents during a Life Chiefly in Ireland. […] (First Series), London: Partridge and Co., […], →OCLC, page 208:

And sometimes these nymphs [on frescoes] are tandeming the daintiest little gryphons so pleasantly that one longs (in the dream) to be with them, not fearing a reverse.

1866 May 1, “Visits to the Paradise of Artists. IV. Pompeii.—The Enchanting Sights and Disenchanting Sounds of Naples.—Capri.”, in The Art-Journal, volume V (New Series), London: Virtue & Co., page 129, column 2:

Hendee is located at the New Marlboro', and is tandeming with his lady friends through the Newtons daily.

1886 July 9, “Pencilled Paragraphs”, in The Cycle, volume I, number 15, Boston, Mass.: Abbot Bassett, →OCLC, page 263, column 3:

Mr. Cadman gives a humorous description of their journey, as they tandemed the donkey to drag their impedimenta up the slope of 1,200 feet.

1898 July 16, “The Gentle Art. Harry Druidale, Fisherman, from Manxland to England. By Henry Cadman. London: Macmillan & Co. [book review]”, in [Thomas Wemyss Reid], editor, The Speaker, London: The Speaker Office, →OCLC, page 87:

[A]n excessively dissipative error cancellation delay line is unacceptable, since that line directly tandems the main power amplifier.

1971 November, H. Seidel, “A Microwave Feed-forward Experiment”, in The Bell System Technical Journal, volume 50, number 9, New York, N.Y.: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2892:

Charlotte, who I had not yet had the chance to do more than talk to, was tandeming [on a tandem bicycle] with George but each was accusing the other of not putting in their fare share of the pedalling.

1989, Andrew Scott [pseudonym; Lionel Trapes?], chapter 3, in The Oyster, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: Blue Moon Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 80:

No strained informality this as Judy [Garland] tandemed provocative chatter with her guests Lena Horne and Terry-Thomas.

1990, Coyne Steven Sanders, Rainbow’s End: The Judy Garland Show, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 233:

Remote-office-to-remote-office communication happens by tandeming through the headquarters router. The headquarters router and port connection can become bottlenecks. Network latency increases with tandeming.

2002, Regis J. (Bud) Bates, “Frame Relay”, in Broadband Telecommunications Handbook (McGraw-Hill Telecommunications), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 205:

(transitive, intransitive) Synonym of tandemize (“(transitive) to harness or drive (two draught animals, generally draught horses) one behind the other; to set up (two or more things, such as pieces or equipment) to work in tandem or together; (intransitive) to drive a tandem (‘carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other’)”)


Kawasaki

en-proper noun

Kawasaki (countable and uncountable, plural Kawasakis)

Transliteration of Japanese 川崎 (Kawasaki).

translit

Kawasaki disease
Kawasaki disease#English

(uncountable) Ellipsis of Kawasaki disease.


crummy

(informal, British Columbia and Northwestern US) A small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite.


dog cart

At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us.

1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:

While Kitto chatted to William, Jessamy looked with interest at the dog cart. It had a pair of high wooden wheels with two seats back to back above. Between the shafts the bay mare tossed her head and fidgeted on the cobbles.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 57:

A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two transverse seats back to back. The rear seat originally closed up to form a box for carrying dogs.


convertible

en-adj

convertible (comparative more convertible, superlative most convertible)

more convertible (comparative)
most convertible (superlative)

From Old French convertible, from Late Latin convertibilis (“interchangeable”), from Latin convertere (“to turn back, to turn over, to turn around, to turn upside down”), from con- (“with, together”) + vertere (“to turn”), + -ibilis (“-ible: able to”). Equivalent to convert + -ible.

der

Able to be turned into a different thing, especially

(vehicles) Able to change from a closed to an open frame and back again.


convertible

(vehicles) A convertible car: a car with a removable or foldable roof able to convert from a closed to open vehicle and back again.


shock absorber

Hydraulic shock absorbers are used to damp out vertical and lateral oscillations.

1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device designed to smooth out or damp any sudden shock impulse and dissipate kinetic energy; usually consists of a combination of a spring and a dashpot.


landau

Named after the German city of Landau, where such carriages were first made. Compare German Landauer.

Indeed, as the two gentlemen reached the door, a landau drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage, lined with brocade or satin of a faint cream colour, drawn by wonderful grey horses, with flaming ribbons, and harness blazing all over with crests: no less than three of these heraldic emblems surmounted the coats-of-arms on the panels, and these shields contained a prodigious number of quarterings, betokening the antiquity and splendour of the house of Clavering and Snell.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.

1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 1:

Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them, when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.

1891 June 25, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure I.—A Scandal in Bohemia.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II, London: George Newnes, Limited, […], published July 1891, →OCLC, page 68, column 2:

A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.

(by extension) A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.


panel van

A large van without side windows or rear seats, with a chassis too big for a car; compare car-body van.


bumboat

From Dutch bomschuit (“small fishing boat”) + boat.

(nautical) A small boat used for carrying provisions to ships lying at anchor in a harbour.

小販船 /小贩船

a small boat used for carrying provisions to ships


starship

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A type of spacecraft capable of traveling to the solar systems of other stars.

星際飛船 /星际飞船

a spacecraft capable of traveling to other stars


vis-à-vis

Unadapted borrowing from French vis-à-vis.

ubor

He was seated vis-à-vis the president.

Opposite; across from; set so as to be facing.


lifeboat

I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat

1971, Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith (lyrics and music), “Halo of Flies”, in Killer, performed by Alice Cooper:

(nautical) A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).

(science fiction) An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.


privateer

/ˌpɹaɪ.vəˈtɪə/

/ˌpɹaɪ.vəˈtɪɚ/

From private + -eer, probably after volunteer.

(historical) A privately owned warship that acted under a letter of marque to attack enemy merchant ships and take possession of their cargo.


sidecar

desc

→ Burmese: ဆိုက်ကား (hcuikka:, “pedicab, cycle rickshaw”)

→ Korean: 사이드카 (saideuka)

→ Welsh: seicar

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Coordinate term: forecar

A one-wheeled attachment to the side of a motorcycle to allow for a separate seat for a passenger or cargo space.


Bug

A river flowing northwest 450 miles between Belarus and Poland.

A river in Ukraine (Southern Bug), flowing 530 miles to the Dnieper estuary.


Chevy

Short for Chevrolet; a brand of car produced by General Motors.


Chevy

Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry […]


Dodge

en-proper noun

Dodge (countable and uncountable, plural Dodges)

From a Middle English diminutive form of Roger.

(countable, chiefly US) A surname transferred from the given name.

A placename
A city and village in North Dakota.

A placename
A census-designated place in Oklahoma.

census-designated place
census-designated place


Fiat

From the Italian abbreviation: Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (“Italian Automobile Factory of Turin”).

Even as a young feminist who was very angry at men, a real ballbuster, I had a boyfriend who drove a Fiat, I was always fashionable, even though it was hippie gear.

1997, Jill Nagle, Whores and Other Feminists, page 160:

We'd watched Marion pile her three kids and their stuff into an old Fiat 124 I was sure Dad must have picked for her; she didn't look like a Fiat driver at heart.

2003, Mary-Rose MacColl, Killing Superman, page 108:

You are jet-lagged, have a headache, can't stand driving a Fiat, it's turned dark and you cannot see or read the road signs.

2005, Chris Bonner, Reducing Stress-related Behaviours in People with Dementia Care-based Therapy, page 13:

An automobile manufactured by the Italian firm Fiat S.p.A..


Ford

Ford (countable and uncountable, plural Fords)

Ford (disambiguation)#People
Ford (disambiguation)#Places

An extinct town in Bartow County, Georgia.

Dinwiddie County
Dinwiddie County#English

An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.


Hummer

"The vehicle is called the 'Hummer,' a contrived abbreviation of its official designation, 'High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle.'"

1985, Andy Rooney, Pieces of my Mind, →ISBN, page 38:

"The Hummer, a clumsy, elongated vehicle the Army intended as a replacement for the hardy Jeep, developed so many problems it became known as the Bummer."

1985, James Coates, Michael Kilian, Heavy Losses: The Dangerous Decline of American Defense, →ISBN, page 25:

"He made a point of not taking federal money for the district -- though by 1986 he was bragging about landing an Army contract to build the Hummer vehicle for a South Bend company."

1987, Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa, The Almanac of American Politics, 1988, →ISBN, page 403:

"A Hummer can carry four people."

1994, World Book Inc., “Jeep”, in World Book Encyclopedia, vol. J, →ISBN, page 25:

(military, slang) The HMMWV or Humvee, a US Army vehicle which replaced the Jeep.


Humvee

Derived from the attempt to pronounce the acronym HMMWV: The 'High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle.'

We went out into the streets of Zafaraniya, travelling in the usual two-Humvee convoy, complete with gunners.

Stores, dealerships, galleries struggled to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ever more recherché produce: limited-edition olive oils, three-hundred-dollar corkscrews, customized Humvees, the latest anti-virus software, escort services featuring contortionists and twins, video installations, outsider art, featherlight shawls made from the chin-fluff of extinct mountain goats.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:

(US, military) A diesel-powered, four-wheel drive tactical military vehicle that can carry a wide variety of military hardware.


International

A make of truck and other vehicles formerly manufactured by International Harvester.


Jag

"One of the ticket collectors at our local station," observed Mr. Fiennes, "has a Jag."

1960 February, “The future of B.R. passenger traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76:


Jaguar

A motor car manufactured by this company


Lada

Жигули́ Жигули#Russian

A make of car, produced by the Soviet/Russian automotive manufacturer AvtoVAZ; the car's name for the internal Soviet/Russian market is Zhiguli (Жигули́ (Žigulí)).


Lincoln

Lincoln (countable and uncountable, plural Lincolns)

Inherited from Middle English Lincolne, from Old English Lindcoln, Lindcylene, from Latin Lindum Colōnia (“the Roman settlement Lindum Colonia”), from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn (“pool”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”), in reference to the Brayford. In the United States, many of the places established since 1865 are named after Abraham Lincoln.

der

Talladega County
Talladega County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A city in Talladega County, Alabama, named after Benjamin Lincoln.

Bonneville County
Bonneville County#English

A census-designated place in Bonneville County, Idaho.

A city in Burleigh County, North Dakota.

Allegheny County
Allegheny County#English

A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Providence County
Providence County#English

A town in Providence County, Rhode Island.

An unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia.

An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Eau Claire County
Eau Claire County#English

Trempealeau County
Trempealeau County#English

A town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.

Athabasca County
Athabasca County#English

A community of Athabasca County, Alberta.

A suburban community and parish in Sunbury County, New Brunswick.


Mini

A model of compact car, originally built by BMC in the United Kingdom, and later by BMW.


Morgan

en-prop

Morgan (countable and uncountable, plural Morgans)

A placename.
A locale in the United States:
A minor city in Bosque County, Texas.

An unincorporated community in Shawano County, Wisconsin.


Morris

en-proper noun

Morris (countable and uncountable, plural Morrises)

* The surname has converged from several origins; see Morris.


Singer

The sewing machines were named after the company founder, I. M. Singer.

West Dunbartonshire
West Dunbartonshire#English

A railway station in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland, named after the Singer sewing machine factory that formerly existed there (OS grid ref NS4970).


Singer

They were ancient industrial Singers, made of iron and brass and strung with heavy cotton binding thread that fed like spider webs from spools perched on tall twin spindles.

2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 288:

(sewing) A sewing machine of the Singer brand.


Superman

en-noun

Superman (countable and uncountable, plural Supermen or Supermans)

DC Comics
Dragon Con
Jerry Siegel
Joe Shuster

From super- + man. The character, created by Jerry Siegel (1914–1996) and Joe Shuster (1914–1992), first appeared in DC Comics’ Action Comics #1 dated June 1938. The ice-cream flavor is named in reference to the red, yellow and blue of the superhero's costume.

[page 77] Riders should adapt their own style when doing Supermans, and shouldn't get hung up trying to do it the same way that someone else does. […] [page 79] An extension of the Superman is a trick called the Superman Seat Grab. Even more impressive than the Superman itself, this trick was again brought over from the BMX world, […] During the Superman Seat Grab, […] the rider lets go of the left side of the bars and grabs either a cutout in the rear number plate or a grab handle that has been previously installed. With his body moved toward the back of the bike, the rider is able to extend the bike way out in front of himself, almost floating behind the machine. […] Whichever way they are done, the Superman and its variations are some of the most impressive and difficult tricks out there.

2000, Garth Milan, edited by Sara Perfetti, Freestyle Motocross: Jump Tricks from the Pros, Osceola, Wis.: MBI Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 77 and 79:

I'm still trying to do the tricks Nicknack, Superman, and Bar hop. […] Superman is where you grab the handlebars and let your feet and body free.

2003, Dalton Cooper, “The First Time I Got My Dirt Bike”, in TWIGS in the Mitten, New York, N.Y.: School Success Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, pages 69–70:

On the first vert, he reared up the side and let the bike take him out. Midair, he made the 180 turn and slipped back in. This time, as he hit the other side, his whole body slipped off the bike, until only his hands held onto the handlebars. The skaters deliberately turned away as the bikers chanted, ‘Superman! Superman! Superman!’

2008, Andrew Fusek Peters, “The Bowl and the Bully”, in Diamonds are for Evil (Skateboard Detectives), London: Orchard Books, →ISBN:

A trick first popularized by Jeremy McGrath, the Superman gave the impression of a rider in full flight, not so much riding his bike as trailing it through the sky. McGrath had done the Superman at the end of races and in exhibitions, and it always killed. But he'd never done a Superman like this. No one had ever done it like this. The goal when executing a Superman was simply to go horizontal, at 180 degrees, while barely touching the bike. But this kid had gone way beyond horizontal. Rather than just kicking his feet out behind him, he'd lifted his legs high in the air, his boots hanging back over his body, two feet above his torso, like a scorpion getting ready to strike.

2013, Larry Linkogle, Joe Layden, Mind of the Demon: A Memoir of Motocross, Madness, and the Metal Mulisha, Philadelphia, Pa.: Running Press, →ISBN:

(motorcycling, plural Supermans) A stunt in which the rider releases both hands from the handlebars in mid-air.


T

T (countable and uncountable, plural Ts)

(automotive) The Ford Motor Company's Model T automobile.


Volvo

From Swedish Volvo, from Latin volvō (“I roll”), in reference to ball bearings which were the company's original product.

The Volvo Car Corporation, a Swedish manufacturer of cars, now owned by the Chinese holding company Geely.


tonga

uder

Hindi टाँगा (ṭāṅgā)

Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.

1890, Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills:

When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga.

1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 13:

The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.

1972, Abulhasan 'Ali Nadvi, The Musalman, page 42:

(India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.


surrey

From the Surrey cart, a type of carriage originally made in the county of Surrey in England, UK, and introduced into the USA in 1872.

The Surrey must be looked upon as the spring novelty in the way of road-wagons.

1874 April 1, “Half-spring No-top Surrey”, in The Hub, volume 16, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Hub Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 9, column 2:

It suffered a wide verandah, one side of which led directly into the stables where, in former days, horses, surreys, and buggies had been kept, and where now two cars were housed— […]

1941 September, August W[illiam] Derleth, “Beyond the Threshold”, in D. McIlwraith, editor, Weird Tales, volume 36, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Weird Tales, →OCLC; republished in Robert M[cNair] Price, editor, The Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-walker of the Icy Wastes (Chaosium Publication; no. 6021), Hayward, Calif.: Chaosium, 2006, →ISBN, page 84:

When I take you out, tonight, with me, / Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be: / You will set behind a team of snow white horses, / In the slickest gig you ever see! // Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry / When I take you out in the surrey, / When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!

1943, “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top”, in Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Richard Rodgers (music), Oklahoma!:

(historical) A light horse-drawn carriage with forward-facing seats accommodating two or four people, popular in the United States; a motorized carriage of similar design.


hackney

From Middle English hakeney, from the placename Hackney (formerly a town; now a borough of London), used for grazing horses before sale, from Old English Hacan īeġ (“Haca's Island”, literally “Hook's Island”). The Old French haquenée (“ambling mare for ladies”), Latinized in England to hakeneius, is originally from the English.

cog

hackney authors

his accumulative and hackney tongue

a. 1685, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, The Ghost of the old House of Commons to the new one appointed to meet at Oxford.:


victoria

It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:

A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.


pillion

From Scottish Gaelic pillean (“little rug”), from Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”).

(motorcycling) A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger.


capsule

Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”).

(astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.

kapsule

part of spacecraft containing crew's living space


cable ship

The land line was eight months later in its completion than was anticipated, but the fleet of cable ships, sent out by the British Australian Telegraph Company, arrived in Port Darwin at the date appointed by them: November 6th, 1871.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 134:

(nautical) a vessel fitted for laying and repairing submarine cables; it has a large roller built over the bows for paying out cable.


catboat

According to Watkins, the first element is related to the animal cat and has correlations in Dutch kat (“vessel with wide fore and aft”), Medieval Latin gatus, gattus, Old French chat, a war machine or portable shed for protecting sapping operations, or a boat with such a shed, and Middle French chat (“kind of commercial vessel”).
However, it could instead derive from Irish cot, coit; see cot (sense 3).

Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

A sailing boat with a single sail, usually rigged on a gaff spar, used for fishing in New England and later adapted for racing and cruising. It has a single mast set near to the bow and a long boom which may extend over the stern.


bankrupt cart

Said to be so called by a Lord Chief Justice, from their being so frequently used on Sunday jaunts by extravagant shopkeepers and tradesmen.

" No, no, I was too prudent when I was young to risk the expenses of a bankrupt cart, and now I am old I am too wise to attempt the difficult art of driving one."

1813, Harriet Corp, Cottage Sketches; Or, Active Retirement:

(obsolete, idiomatic) A one-horse chaise.


sulky

See sulk.
The horse-drawn vehicle is so called as it obliges the rider to be alone.

A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.


fifth wheel

/ˌfɪfθ ˈʍiːl/

From the fact that since many vehicles such as carriages, coaches, wagons, prime movers, and trucks generally have four wheels on which they move, this component which resembles a wheel is the fifth.
* (anything superfluous or unnecessary): Sense 3 refers to the fact that a fifth wheel is not needed for a four-wheeled vehicle to operate.

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􂀿...􂁀 Containing Complete Instructions in All the Different Branches of Carriage Building. Adapted to the Wants of Every Person Directly or Indirectly Connected with the Manufacture of Carriages. Written and Revised by Practical Men of Acknowledged Ability and Practical Experience in Their Several Departments.

refn

From “Platform Spring Carriage”, in The Coach-makers’ Illustrated Hand-book, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: I[saac] D[elaney] Ware, […], 1875, →OCLC, part II (Blacksmith Department), page 126.

In most forms of semi-trailers a great deal of time is wasted in connecting the trailer to the tractor or pulling vehicle. Most of the connecting gears are some form of fifth wheel, consisting of two horizontal circular bands of iron, one fitting on top of the other, with grease between and with a bolt or king-pin dropped through holes in the hubs or center bosses of both parts of the fifth wheel.

1919 August, “Connecting the Trailer in Record Time”, in Waldemar Kaempffert, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 95, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Modern Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 28, column 1:

The semi-trailers are equipped with hydraulic brakes which operate through the king pin of the fifth wheel. The booster-controlled fifth wheel gives full and complete cab control of all braking and coupling operations.

1934 August 25, “M.D.T. [Merchants Despatch Transportation Company] Develops Trailer Tank for Milk Service”, in Samuel O. Dunn, editor, Railway Age, volume 97, number 8, Philadelphia, Pa.: Simmons-Boardman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 235, column 2:

From the blow-back tank, the fluid is piped into a larger tank commonly known as a fracturing (frac) tank or wheely tank. This is a large, 21,000-gallon tank mounted on wheels and provided with a fifth wheel for towing from jobsite to jobsite by a semi-tractor.

1994 January, “Atmospheric Hazards – Oxygen Deficient Air [FACE 92-17 Fracturing Tank, 2 Fatalities]”, in Worker Deaths in Confined Spaces: A Summary of NIOSH Surveillance and Investigative Findings (DHHS (NIOSH); no. 94-103), Cincinnati, Oh.: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, →OCLC, page 114:

(road transport) A type of trailer hitch, which consists of a horseshoe-shaped plate on a multidirectional pivot, with a locking pin to couple with the kingpin of a truck trailer.

Fifth-wheel hitching is a simple affair compared to trailer coupling. Choose a quality hitch and don't overburden an inadequate pickup truck with a big fifth wheel and you're almost in business.

1997, Kim Baker, Sunny Baker, “Towing, Tow Vehicles, and Towed Vehicles”, in The RVer’s Bible: Everything You Need to Know about Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Your RV (A Fireside Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, part II (The Mechanical Side of RVing), page 182:

Janet [Rosenstock] and Dennis [Adair] are avid travelers who venture to Europe now and again, and as full-time RVers travel through the United States and Canada. Look for them on the open road; their fifth wheel bears the sign "Read a Joyce Carlow lately?"

2000, Janet Rosenstock, Dennis Adair, “About the Author”, in The Fire, the Sword and the Devil, Lincoln, Neb.: toExcel, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 382:

In full, fifth-wheel trailer: a large caravan or travel trailer that is connected to a pickup truck for towing by a hitch similar to the one described in sense 1 located in the center of the truck's bed.

Full fifth-wheels have become quite frequent of late, and it may not be out of place to make a few remarks on their merits as compared with half fifth-wheels. With the exception of heavy coaches and rockaways, nearly all vehicles were until lately made with half fifth-wheels; but at present we find nearly all the different kinds of work, such as landaus, clarences, coaches, landaulets, T-carts, and coupés, made with full fifth-wheels.

1873 April 1, H. F. Porter, “The Relative Merits of Full and Half Fifth-wheels”, in The Hub, volume XV, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Hub Publishing, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:

For greasing the axles and fifth wheel, use castor-oil. It is not necessary to put on a great deal. [...] The fifth wheel should be looked after, and not be allowed to become entirely dry.

1875, “The Proper Care of Carriages”, in The Coach-makers’ Illustrated Hand-book, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: I[saac] D[elaney] Ware, […], →OCLC, part V (Miscellaneous), page 350:

The Great Western has a big 15-inch indestructible malleable fifth wheel that weighs 40 pounds. This is attached with malleable braces to two big, heavy, solid oak bolsters. It is arranged so that if one wheel drops into a hole or rut, there's no strain or binding on the frame. The Great Western malleable fifth wheel and heavy oak bolsters are set back two feet under the box so the load is evenly balanced on all four wheels.

1912 February 7, “How to Save the Most Money on a Spreader [advertisement]”, in The Breeder’s Gazette, volume LXI, number 6, Chicago, Ill.: Sanders Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 367, columns 2–3:

(road transport, historical) A horizontal wheel or segment of a wheel above the front axle and beneath the body of a carriage, forming an extended support to prevent it from overturning.


space shuttle

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-space shuttle.wav

Any vehicle capable of travelling repeatedly between the Earth's surface and outer space carrying people or cargo.

ruimtependeltuig

vehicle capable of travelling repeatedly between Earth and outer space

(but the historic NASA Space Shuttle usually) Spaceshuttle

mnogorázovyj tránsportnyj kosmíčeskij koráblʹ

многора́зовый тра́нспортный косми́ческий кора́бль


ISS

International Space Station
International Space Station#English

(space science) Initialism of International Space Station.


RSS

Republic of Singapore
Republic of Singapore#English

(military, nautical, Singapore) Initialism of Republic of Singapore Ship (“prefix of Navy ships belonging to the Republic of Singapore Navy”).


deux chevaux (conventional French shortening of deux chevaux-vapeur "two horsepower") (a model of car by French manufacturer, Citroën)


taxicab

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

Shortened from taximeter cab, equivalent to taxi + cab.

So now, stimulated by some further experience with that world which does not care a tinker's damn whether a verb agrees with its subject in number and person or not, she permitted the taxicab to jounce her smile out of all semblance to anything calmly superior and into a very unschoolmarmish grin.

1921, Harvey Wickham, “Introducing the Garden of Eden”, in The Clue of the Primrose Petal, New York, N.Y.: Edward J. Clode, page 9:

After that, the CGV "denumbered" a total of sixty taxicabs, that is, it removed them from the register of stationing taxicabs. The end of the CGV experiment is controversial, but it is certain that the behavior of the drivers (who, as we saw, were not directly salaried by CGV) was an important incentive to the denumbering of cabs: because of the high moyenne, they refused to accept customers for short trips and only accepted orders by the day or half-day.

Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys, particularly one using a taximeter to automate fare calculation.


capital ship

(nautical) Any of the most important types of warships, capable of projecting a fleet in being.


ship of the line

en-noun

ship of the line (plural ships of the line)

Contraction of line of battle ship, a warship large enough to be in the line of battle. See also battleship, contracted from the same phrase.

(nautical, military) A large square-rigged warship large enough to have a place in the line of battle, with up to 140 guns on at least two decks. A capital ship from the age of sail, superior to a frigate; usually, a seventy-four, or three-decker.


grill

grill (plural grills or (jewelry) grillz)

1655, from French gril, from Middle French gril, from Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“gridiron”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), q.v. Related to griddle, hurdle.

(colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.


radiator

→ Gulf Arabic: راديتر (rādētar)

/ˈrædɪeɪ̯tə/

From radiate + -or. Doublet of radiatori.

(automotive) A device that lowers engine coolant temperature by conducting heat to the air, through metal fins.


pantechnicon

pantechnicon (plural pantechnicons or pantechnica)

pantechnicons (plural)
pantechnica (plural)

From Pantechnicon, a 19th-century firm which owned a building with a Greek-style facade of Doric columns in Motcomb Street, Belgrave Square, London, UK, with a picture gallery, a furniture shop, a shop selling carriages, and a warehouse for storing customers’ furniture and other items. The firm used large horse-drawn vans to collect and deliver their customers' property, which came to be known as Pantechnicon vans.
The word was coined by the firm from pan- (“all”) (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân), neuter form of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”)) + τεχνικόν (tekhnikón), neuter singular of τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “technical”).

For we do not employ battleships as convoys, nor even as pantechnica conveying landing parties.

1899 October 28, The Outlook: A Weekly Review of Politics, Art, Literature and Finance, page 400:

The pantechnicon was running away. It had perceived the wrath to come and was fleeing. Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose. […] [T]he onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis. Lower down the gradient of Brougham Street was more dangerous, and it was within the possibilities that people inhabiting the depths of the street might find themselves pitched out of bed by the sharp corner of a pantechnicon that was determined to be a pantechnicon.

1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, London: Methuen Publishing, OCLC 492063506; republished Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, 1910s, OCLC 225424669, page 69

Not a day passes but some great pantechnica drive up to the door or drive down past my other window on the delivery road and drop off either £100,000 worth of Buddha or an early printed book, or a piece of furniture from a West African village.

1971, New Directions in Librarianship: Papers Read at the Week-end Conference of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association, Held at Eastbourne, 30th April-2nd May, 1971, Under the Chairmanship of Derek Jones, Library Association, →ISBN, page 6:

In the Christian life we have a handicap. If we are encircled by the greatness of the past, we are also encircled by the handicap of our own sin. No man would seek to climb Mount Everest with a pantechnicon of lumber weighing him down. If we would travel far, we must travel light.

1972, William Barclay, “The Race and the Goal”, in The Letter to the Hebrews (The Daily Study Bible Series), rev. edition, Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 172:

On the 3rd of September 1939 I made my will, and since then I have discovered how happy is the state of having made a will. No pantechnica will now follow my hearse, I have taken leave of all the junk in time, perhaps only just in time.

a. 1977, E. C. Large, edited by Stuart Bailey and Robin Kinross, God’s Amateur: The Writing of E. C. Large, Hyphen Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 69:

In fact, as they later found, the auxiliary vehicle was a very large removers' van – the kind known as a pantechnicon.

1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: Or Buried Alive: A Novel, London: Faber and Faber; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, page 426

I later established that the R12 [Renault 12] and pantechnicon had both been driving in the direction of the roadblock, the R12 behind the pantechnicon.

2008, Anthony Trethowan, “Wendy Atkinson”, in Delta Scout: Ground Coverage Operator, Johannesburg: 30° South Publishers, →ISBN, page 30:

[…] Bulstrode v Lambert [1953] 1 WLR 1064 […] [T]he plaintiff made use of the route with furniture vans and pantechnicons for bringing goods to the mart. The defendant objected on the ground that the parked pantechnicons interfered with his business as a cafe and car hire proprietor, but Upjohn J held that the plaintiff could use the way with pantechnicons which could park as long as was necessary for loading and unloading, this being an incident of a right of way.

2009, E[dward] H[ector] Burn, J[ohn] Cartwright, “Adverse Possession and Limitation of Actions”, in Maudsley and Burn's Land Law: Cases & Materials, 9th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 291–292:

Shinkfield's had at one time belonged to a firm called Hutchison's which did furniture removals. They stabled their horses and pantechnicon in the yard which runs behind the Lord Palmerston and the adjoining shops, with access from North Cross Road.

2010, John D. Beasley, “What a Lot of Shops and Stalls!”, in East Dulwich Remembered, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing, →ISBN:

(chiefly British) Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van.


backhoe

Coordinate term: front-end loader

en:component that digs, part of a piece of heavy equipment

A piece of excavating equipment, either an integral subassembly or an attachment, consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth; used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.

Meronym: front-end loader

The backhoe is only one type of heavy equipment for rent.[…]I heard about a couple of tool-rental outfits near Chicago that were doing a brisk business renting backhoes and other heavy equipment to homeowners

1967 June, Charles E. Rhine, “How to Rent a Backhoe”, in Popular Science, page 149:

I'll recommend a good way to calculate backhoe production rates. Then we'll look at the two backhoes you'll be using, the wheeled backhoe and the tracked backhoe.

1987, Dave Roberts, Pipe and Excavation Contracting, page 173:

2010, Robert Day, Foundation Engineering Handbook, 2nd edition, page 2.49,
Backhoe pits and trenches are an economical means of performing subsurface exploration. The backhoe can quickly excavate the trench that can then be used to observe and test the in situ soil (see Fig. 2.29).

en:tractor with digger and loader components

(chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component).


wheelhouse

From wheel + house. Sense 3 (“(baseball) a pitch location which is favourable to the hitter”) references the fact that a vessel is controlled from its wheelhouse (sense 1.2), and sense 4 (“a person’s area of authority or expertise”) is a figurative use of sense 3.

This invention relates to an improved device for hanging the body of carriages having a so-called "cut-under" or wheel-house, such as a common rockaway, extension-top phaeton, coupé-rockaway, &c., [...]

1878 June 13, Edwin R. Wheeler, Improvement in Vehicle-spring Braces, US Patent 205,594, column 1:

To install a new outer wheelhouse in a convertible, measure (at 1-in. intervals) the distance from the reinforcement that runs along the top of the old wheelhouse to the flange where the inner and outer wheelhouses are joined. Then transfer these measurements onto the new wheelhouse.

1990, Tom Currao, Ron Sessions, “Body Repair”, in Camaro Restoration Handbook: Ground-up or Sectional Restoration Tips & Techniques for 1967 to 1981 Camaros. All Models Included, New York, N.Y.: HPBooks, Berkley Publishing Group, →ISBN, image caption, page 97, column 1:

A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.

The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.

hjulbue

partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile — see also wheel well


sociable

en-adj

sociable (comparative more sociable, superlative most sociable)

more sociable (comparative)
most sociable (superlative)

From Middle French sociable, from Latin sociābilis.

He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.

Society is no comfort to one not sociable.

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

(of a person) Tending to socialize or be social.

тавары́скі

tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial

a sociable party

Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.


sociable

(historical) A four-wheeled open carriage with seats facing each other.

A bicycle or tricycle for two persons side by side.


tuk-tuk

From Thai ตุ๊ก ๆ (dtúk-dtúk), onomatopoeic for the sound of its two-stroke engine.

Photographs containing blurry night shots from Kao San Road, as well as one where a tuk tuk almost hits an elephant.

2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 17:

A motorized rickshaw, especially Southeast Asia or India.


quad bike

From quad (“four (“4”)”) + bike (“bicycle”).
From being a 4-wheeled quadricycle vehicle that is ridden astride like a dirt bike (“motorcycle”).

A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, especially of a design derived from a motorcycle, usually used for recreation or farm work.


bonnet

→ Scottish Gaelic: bonaid

From Middle English bonet, from Middle French bonet (Modern French bonnet), from Old French bonet (“material from which hats are made”), from Frankish *bunni (“that which is bound”), from Proto-Germanic *bundiją (“bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
Compare also Late Latin abbonis, obbonis (“ribbon of a headdress”), also of Germanic origin, from Frankish *obbunni, from *ob- (“above, over”) + *bunni.
Cognate with Old High German gibunt (“band, ribbon”), Middle Dutch bont (“bundle, truss”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (gabundi, “bond”). More at over, bundle.

der

The car is burgundy red, wide and elegant, ten years old but still the boys are impressed and they run to touch it, pressing sticky handprints against the polished bodywork and trying to climb up onto the bonnet.

2003, Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, page 189:

People were reluctant to slam a bonnet shut in those days. One just did not slam bonnets and doors.

2004, David Spencer, quoted in Don Loffler, The FJ Holden: A Favourite Australian Car, page 217:

By about 20 ms, there is contact between the bonnet leading edge and the pedestrian upper leg/pelvis on the struck side, the severity of which depends on the vehicle shape.

2009, Ciaran Simms, Denis Wood, Pedestrian and Cyclist Impact: A Biomechanical Perspective, page 38:

Stoll was still standing on the car bonnet with the catch of his large-calibre repeating rifle off.

2009, Stefan Aust, Anthea Bell, Baader-Meinhof: the inside story of the R.A.F., page 308:

(Australia, British, New Zealand, South Africa, Commonwealth, automotive) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car; a hood.


destroyer

/dəˈstɹɔɪ.ɚ/

From destroy + -er. Designating a warship, it is ellipsis of torpedo-boat destroyer, the longer term appearing at the end of the 19th century and the shorter form early in the 20th.

(military, nautical, historical) A small, fast warship with light gun armament, smaller than a cruiser, but bigger than a frigate.

(military, nautical) A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship roles. Often, but not always, larger than a frigate and smaller than a cruiser.

(science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role.


toboggan

/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.

The old toboggan has been laid aside, and sleighs or waggons dash along the streets.

1847, Abraham Gesner, New Brunswick; with Notes for Emigrants: Comprehending the Early History, an Account of the Indians, Settlement, Topography, Statistics, Commerce, Timber, Manufactures, Agriculture, Fisheries, Geology, Natural History, Social and Political State, Immigrants, and Contemplated Railways of that Province:

These animals are harnessed by a padded collar to a light flat sleigh, of skins stretched across a frame of thin wood, called a toboggan.

1889, John G. Donkin, Trooper and Redskin in the Far North-west: Recollections of Life in the North-west Mounted Police:

The steer dog next to the sleigh prevents this by immediately leading off at a sixty-degree angle from the direction the others are going, thereby compensating for the sidewise stress and keeping the toboggan in the clear until the bend has been passed.

(Canada, US) A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport cargo.


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.


feeder

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.


rolling stock

en-noun

rolling stock (countable and uncountable, plural rolling stocks)

... 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.


indicator

From Late Latin indicātor (“one who points out”), from Latin indicō (“point out”); see indicate.

der

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, automotive) A turn signal; each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change etc.


jingle

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/

The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.


Volga

(automotive) Any of several automobiles of the same brand manufactured by GAZ in the Soviet Union and Russia.


Hudson

en-proper noun

Hudson (countable and uncountable, plural Hudsons)

(with the) A river in the United States, flowing from Lake Tear of the Clouds in Keene, New York into the Upper New York Bay at New York City; named for English explorer Henry Hudson.


Hudson

The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!

1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 613:

(rail transport, US, Canada) A steam locomotive of the 4-6-4 wheel arrangement.


parking ticket

Guests staying at least one night at an on-airport hotel are offered free or reduced-rate parking for multiple days. This offer is in addition to the validated parking typically offered guests for each night they stay at the hotel. Typically, hotel staff at the front desk or a concierge will validate a guest's parking ticket.

2009, Jacobs Consultancy et al., “Parking Strategies and Supporting Technologies”, in Guidebook for Evaluating Airport Parking Strategies and Supporting Technologies (Airport Cooperative Research Program; report 24), Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 47:

The man parked in the supermarket's new car park and bought a ticket at the 'Pay and Display' machine. He then displayed the ticket on the dashboard and went into the shop. However, it turned out that what he believed to be a parking ticket was in fact a voucher for the store. The new parking machines were handing out receipts, tickets and store vouchers whenever someone bought a parking ticket. Others were also left confused by the system.

2012, Howard Lester, More Than My Job's Worth, London: Constable & Robinson, →ISBN:

A small ticket issued as proof of payment for the right to park a motor vehicle.


seat belt

"Wearing a seat belt for drivers and front seat occupants reduces the risk of death by 45 to 50%. Just think about that for a moment. A 50% more chance of staying alive. Who wouldn't go for that?" Michelle Yeoh, Reckless driving has 'immense' human and economic toll, Brussels, Euronews, Jorge Liboreiro, 20/9/2023

(automotive) A restraining belt attached to a vehicle seat and fastened around occupants in order to keep them in place and decelerate them smoothly rather than suddenly in an accident, mitigating the risk of injury from uncontrolled impact with injurious objects.

would you mind putting on your seat belt


grille

The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider")


armored personnel carrier

en-noun

armored personnel carrier (plural armored personnel carriers)

An armored vehicle for carrying infantry soldiers in combat.


hospital ship

The Leinster has been in use as a hospital ship and a transport, but is now released and is refitting for her regular service.

1946 March and April, “Notes and News: Anglo-Irish Steamship Fleets”, in Railway Magazine, page 118:

A ship that is intended to serve as a mobile hospital with appropriate equipment and personnel.

USNS Comfort (T-AH-20)
United States Navy
hospital ship


sampan

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.


catalytic converter

en-noun

catalytic converter (plural catalytic converters)

(automotive) A chamber containing a finely divided platinum catalyst in which carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust are oxidized to carbon dioxide.

محول حفزي

chamber in which carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust are oxidized into carbon dioxide


flagship

After Russia’s flagship in the Black Sea, the Moskva, sank last week, the authorities said that the entire crew of more than 500 had been rescued.

2022 April 21, Neil MacFarquhar, Alina Lobzina, “With sunken warship, Russian disinformation faces a test.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(nautical, military) The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag.


dugout

The other explained that it had come with a fleet of canoes in charge of an English half-caste clerk Kurtz had with him; that Kurtz had apparently intended to return himself, the station being by that time bare of goods and stores, but after coming three hundred miles, had suddenly decided to go back, which he started to do alone in a small dug-out with four paddlers, leaving the half-caste to continue down the river with the ivory.

1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II, pages 479–480:

(nautical) A canoe made from a hollowed-out log.


chaise

Unadapted borrowing from French chaise. Doublet of cathedra and chair.

It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.

1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 20:


post chaise

She had lately remitted the trespass of a stage-coachman, who had overturned her post-chaise into a ditch;

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IX, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI:

(historical) An enclosed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels, used to transport mail and passengers.

postivaunu

a horse-drawn carriage, closed and with four-wheels


headlight

A bright light, with a lens and reflector, on the front of a motor vehicle (or originally a ship or train), designed to illuminate the road when driving at night; normally one of a pair.

(Canada, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's erect nipples, partially masked by clothing.

Lysergic acid diethylamide
lysergic acid diethylamide#English

(US, slang, chiefly in the plural) Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).


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 minibus, especially one with a scheduled fixed route.

minibus

Synonym of gypsy cab, an unlicensed taxi.

(Canada) An informal lawn bowling, curling, or darts competition in which all players present are randomly drawn into teams.


minibus

en-noun

minibus (plural minibuses or minibusses)

From mini- + bus. In the political sense, probably a back-formation from omnibus.

Just south of Durness, at Keoldale, is a passenger-ferry across the Kyle of Durness. It links up during the summer months with a minibus service to the lonely Cape Wrath lighthouse, built of granite in 1827 on a headland 400 ft above the sea.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 157:

A small bus, especially one used as transport for small groups.

marshrutka

shared taxi minibuses in former Soviet states


Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company
Kalamazoo, Michigan

After the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company.

(rail transport, Australia) A pump trolley.


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


dory

Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.

From every schooner, dories were being dropped into the shining, clear water. The sound of voices and the splashes of oars carried across the sea.

1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:

He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous […]

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

The dory, and the fisherman who rowed it, are part of the maritime heritage that changed America from a group of shore-bound colonies to a nation with ships that ranged the waters of the world.

1960 February, John Gardner, “The Remarkable Dory: This Boat has Served Sailormen Well, and Many of Today's Able Pleasurecraft are Direct Descendants of the Line”, in Popular Boating, volume 7, number 2, →OCLC, page 90:

It is almost impossible for anyone who loves boats not to rejoice at the sight of a St. Pierre dory. Gaily painted, with lots of sheer and a defiantly jaunty look to them, the dories have been pleasing the eyes of their beholders for nearly a century.

1978 March, Steven H. Rubin, “The St. Pierre Dory: An Endangered Species”, in Boating, volume 43, number 3, →ISSN, page 72:

A dory, by definition, is a flat-bottomed boat with two pointed (or nearly pointed) ends. The traditional dories of the Pacific City fleet were just that. Over the years, however, they have evolved into the square-stern variety seen today.

2008, Jeanna Rosembalm Bottenberg, The Dory Fleet of Pacific City, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:

John Wesley Powell […] the one-armed Civil War veteran led nine men in four wooden dories down the untamed and uncharted Colorado River and into the equally untamed and uncharted Grand Canyon.

2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, page 36]”, in The New York Times:

(nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.


balanghai

Shortly, thereafter, the Spaniards saw two balanghais, large outriggers, making for the island. One of the balanghais had an awning covering a platform on which sat an important-looking figure.

1996, E. P. Patanñe, The Philippines in the 6th to 16th Centuries, page 172:

(nautical) A large boat, about 18 meters in length, used by Malay settlers of the Philippines in prehispanic times. Such a vessel would carry a small clan or a large family.


taillight

All moved to the front street, where Grierson snibbed on his tail-light and turned to ask the trooper, "They've got the main road ploughed up farther on, haven't they?"

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 162:

One of a pair of red lights mounted on the rear of a vehicle, so it can be seen from the rear at night.


bajra

From Hindi बाजरा (bājrā). Compare bajri from Gujarati બાજરી (bājrī).

When food was scarce, the children would subsist on a lump of jaggery and one bajra roti each.

2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 94:

Cenchrus americanus
Cenchrus americanus#Translingual

Pennisetum glaucum
Pennisetum glaucum#Translingual

(India) Pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum).


Chevrolet

/ˌʃəvɹoʊˈleɪ/

From French Chevrolet. The car company was named after its founder Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941).

named-after

Do you remember back in old L.A. / When everybody drove a Chevrolet?

1974, “Beach Baby”, performed by The First Class:

Settle down, raise a family, join the PTA
Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet

1985, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Dare to Be Stupid”, in Dare to Be Stupid, performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic:

A brand of automobile, now produced by a part of the General Motors group.


trolley

→ 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).

af

About a shopping trolley, I thought I'd let ye know. Ya'd try to push it straight but it never seems ta go. Ya'd wobble through the car park, hopping off the cars. Anyone would think ya had a few auld jars.

2013 March 15, “The Shopping Trolley” (track 10), in Horsing Around, performed by Richie Kavanagh:

(Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.


gharry

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

A ramshackle gharry, all dust and venetian blinds, pulled up short opposite the group, and the driver, throwing up his right foot over his knee, gave himself up to the critical examination of his toes.

1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 5, in Lord Jim:

He thought of Rosa McFee, the Eurasian girl he had seduced in Mandalay in 1913. The way he used to sneak down to the house in a gharry with the shutters down […]

1934, George Orwell, chapter 10, in Burmese Days:

There were ranks of gharries that appeared to do no serious business, although occasionally a group of Shans would wake up a driver, bundle into one and go for a quick spin round the bazaar, much as in the old days one took a five shilling flip around the aerodrome in a plane.

My British friends saw me in a gharry, a little horse-drawn cab used mainly for ephemeral trysts in transit, and offered me the kindly advice that a consul should never use these vehicles for any purpose.

1977, Pablo Neruda, chapter 4, in Hardie St. Martin, transl., Memoirs, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 86:

(India and Myanmar) A wheeled cart or carriage, usually horsedrawn.

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) Short for palkigari.

(South Africa, military, slang) A jeep or small truck for conveying troops.


billet barge

From Detroit to Daytona Beach, from Brooklyn to the Bay Area, the streets are ruled by tight superbikes that put yesterday's Evo-powered billet barges to shame.

2006, Mike Seate, How to Build a Pro Streetbike, St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, →ISBN, page 6:

(motorcycling, slang) A large motorbike with multiple chrome (or similar) cosmetic modifications.


crossover

en-noun

crossover (countable and uncountable, plural crossovers)

(sometimes derogatory) An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent.

crossover

an SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform


go-cart

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


droshky

Borrowed from Russian дро́жки (dróžki), plural diminutive of дро́ги (drógi, “wagon, hearse”), plural of дрога́ (drogá, “centre pole of a carriage”).

Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

Was Tchitcherine there at all? sitting back in the dingy room while the lift cables slapped and creaked through the walls, and down in the street, rarely enough to matter, a droshky rattled whip-snapping over these black old cobbles?

1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

An open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia.


voiture

Borrowed from French voiture, from Latin vectūra. Doublet of vecture and vettura.

The voiture proceeded ſlowly with my Chevalier; […]

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 414:

Having consulted with my friends, about the safest method of travelling through Flanders, I was persuaded to take places in the public Voiture […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 88, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

When the voiture stopped in the village, there seemed to be a nonplusation, to coin a word for the nonce, between my friend and his sisters.

1834, Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log, volume 1, page 33:

As in a stupor, forging headlong forward she was overtaken in the vicinity of Valopolis by the evening voiture of Madame Mimosa, the lady's monogram, "Kiki," wreathed in true-love-knots, emblazoning triply the doors and rear.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 101

A carriage; a vehicle, now chiefly in French contexts.


combine harvester

combine harvester (plural combine harvesters)

A combine, a farming machine that harvests, threshes, and cleans grain plants.


rear-view mirror

rear-view mirror (plural rear-view mirrors)

Coordinate term: side-view mirror

A mirror inside a vehicle that allows the driver to see the traffic behind.

огледало за задно виждане

mirror inside a vehicle giving view of the traffic behind


dredger

The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter.

1923, Marine Engineer and Naval Architect - Volume 46, page 162:

(nautical) A vessel equipped for the removal of sand or sediment from the seabed.


torpedo boat

A small, high-speed warship designed to fire torpedoes, especially in coastal waters.


tugboat

Coordinate term: towboat

(nautical) A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.


sailing ship

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sailing ship.wav

A ship with masts and sails, powered by the wind.


jaunting car

(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)


icebreaker

/ˈaɪsˌbɹeɪkəɹ/

From ice + breaker, in the figurative sense from the expression to break the ice.

Coordinate term: slushbreaker

The steel hulls of ice-breakers are much thicker than those of standard vessels.

My father's Bonneville was cutting its way toward us like an icebreaker moving through my whole state of consciousness.

2004, Martin Torgoff, “Fearless, Immune, and Ready for All”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 11:

(nautical) A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas.


steering wheel

A wheel-shaped control that is rotated by the driver to steer, existing in most modern land vehicles.


democrat wagon

(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.


sailing dinghy

sailing dinghy (plural sailing dinghies)

a small sailboat with a single mast, especially one used for recreation


frigate

From French frégate, from Italian fregata.

(nautical) Any of several types of warship:

(historical) An escort warship, smaller than a destroyer, introduced in World War 2 as an anti-submarine vessel.


battlecruiser

Blend of battleship + cruiser, from being a cruiser-like ship with battleship-like capabilities and possibly operating in the battleline.

US Navy hull classification symbol: CC (Only used for the cancelled Lexington-class)

(military, nautical) A fast warship with thicker armor and heavier guns than a typical cruiser, but with armor, armament, or both still inferior to that of a dreadnought battleship; designed to act as an advanced scout of the battle fleet and to destroy enemy cruisers.

(fiction) A warship of intermediate size and/or capability between a heavy cruiser and a (light) battleship.

So he'd effectively had to learn a new language; no longer would he order a pint at the 'battle cruiser' […]

2014, Steve Wilson, The Twelve Doors of Christmas Avenue, page 9:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang) A boozer; a public house.


mountain bike

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-mountain bike.wav

Coordinate term: road bike

(cycling) A bicycle specially designed for off-road riding, typically with straight, flat handlebars, a heavier frame than road bikes, higher ground clearance, and wider tires, sometimes with knobs on them for greater traction.

دَرَّاجَة لِلْجِبَال

bicycle especially designed for off-road riding


ice yacht

A craft, in the broad shape of a yacht, fitted with skis or runners so as to sail on the ice.


track bike

A stripped-down, lightweight bicycle, with a fixed gear mechanism and no brakes, designed for racing on a velodrome.


digger

From Middle English dyggar, equivalent to dig + -er.
In the sense of "Australian soldier", attributed to the considerable time that soldiers spent digging trenches during World War I.

The cables are placed from 16 in. to 2 ft. down, and to save time and labour use was made of a mechanical digger lent by the Swedish State Railways.

1952 January, “Electrification Progress in Norway”, in Railway Magazine, page 55:

A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.


houseboat

Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey:

A vessel, such as a barge, used as a dwelling.


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 motorscooter; a small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.

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.

Bow Pocket Scooter […] Pull-on twill scooter with three-pleat front, […]

2017, Classroom Uniforms Catalog 2017, page 6:

With thoughtful details like shorts hidden under scooters, wrinkle-resistant, moisture-wicking fabrics, power knees and strength, stretch, and adjustability exactly where growing kids need it most, […]

2021, French Toast Catalog 2022, page 10:

A scooter skirt (skort), especially when worn by girls as part of a school uniform.


hansom

I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll's house.

1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

"Yes, if you have nothing better to do." A minute later we were both in a hansom, driving furiously for the Brixton Road.

1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, page 38:

“There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]”

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

The ghost of Selby stirred in him. His thoughts slipped back to the day when he had stolen from his well-appointed office to a waiting hansom—there had still been a good many hansoms in those days—and driven quickly to the docks.

1931, Francis Beeding, “6/4”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:

tweewielig rijtuig met koetsier achterop


Hansom cab

(historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, once used as a vehicle for hire.


quadrireme

During three decades of peace the Venetian battle fleet had stagnated, but soon, once again, reserve galleys were pushing out of the Arsenal. A colossal quadrireme constructed by the scholar-turned-shipwright Vettor Fausto was loaded with batteries of cannon.

1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 121:

(history) a galley with four banks of oars, each rowed by two oarsmen.


garbage truck

(US, Canada) A vehicle for the collection and removal of domestic waste


narrowboat

A barge used on the narrow canals of England.


police car

An automobile used by a police officer when on duty.

vehículo policial / policíaco / policiaco


paddy wagon

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Supposedly from Paddy, a derogatory name for an Irishman.

(slang) A police van for transporting prisoners.


race car

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


topper

From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top + -er.

A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.


Likely influenced by the time (4:20 pm) a particular group would meet in search of marijuana, circa 1971; subsequently spread as a cipher through the San Francisco Bay area and adopted among Grateful Dead fans.


So named because it is 470 centimetres long

A monohull dinghy, 4.7 metres in length, with two sails, designed for two people


greyhound

From Old English grīġhund, from a cognate or borrowing of Old Norse grøy (“bitch”) (whence Icelandic grey, thus not related to the colour grey) plus hund (“hound”). Altered by folk etymology to appear to be grey + hound.

Her young heart was full of love; and a world of kindly feelings were wasted on her delicate greyhound, her bright winged birds, and her favourite flowers.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 127:

A lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing.


dump truck

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Specialised long-reach excavators with a clamshell grab then reach though the openings to lift the spoil to the surface, which is then deposited in articulated dump trucks (ADTs).

2023 March 8, Chris Howe, “Building the platform for Old Oak Common's platforms”, in RAIL, number 978, page 60:

A heavy truck, for carrying loose, bulk cargo, having a hinged bed that allows the contents to be unloaded onto the ground.

شَاحِنَة تَفْرِيغ

heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo


crawler

From crawl (“to move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) + -er.

suf

A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.

A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.

Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.

2008, Alex Michael, Ben Salter, Marketing Through Search Optimization, Routledge, →ISBN, page xii:

These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers.

2011, James Pearce, Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal, page 466:

(Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.


crawler

From crawl (“to act in a servile manner”) + -er.
From the Australian convict period (1788–1850); a prisoner who was purposely and extensively abused by an overseer (also a convict) and thereby driven to escape but who, finding it impossible to survive in the Australian bush, surrenders to this overseer, who would then have his penal term reduced. The particular crawler was picked for his weak personality and might escape and return a number of times increasing his own penal term each time. According to James Tucker, some convict overseers had their sentences extensively reduced using this odious practice.

suffix

(Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.


Riley

en-proper noun

Riley (countable and uncountable, plural Rileys)

* From Ryley in Lancashire, from Old English ryge (“rye”) + leah (“clearing, meadow”). Equivalent to rye + -ley (“lea”).
* Variant of Reilly, from Irish Ó Raghallaigh (see O'Reilly).


rattletrap

Mom always worried about our safety in my friend's rattletrap. I told her not to worry, as it can't go fast enough to be dangerous.

(informal) A mechanical device, particularly an automobile, that is worn out, run down, or mechanically unreliable as indicated by noises it makes in operation.

And they tumbled about the rattletraps under the cupboard, and rummaged the drawers in search of the sacred volume.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

(dated) Any piece of miscellaneous equipment or junk.

Shut your rattletrap!

(dated, slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.


DMS

en-noun

DMS (countable and uncountable, plural DMSs)

driver monitoring system
w:driver monitoring system

(uncountable, automotive) Initialism of driver monitoring system.


brougham

Named from Henry Peter, Lord Brougham (1778–1868), who either invented or popularized the vehicle.

“Yes,” he continued, glancing out of the window. “A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties.”

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 12:

It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:

Mr. H. R. Pope writes that in 1879 his father bought a new brougham in London, and the vehicle was taken to Victoria Station for conveyance to Brighton by passenger train. It so happened that the carriage truck was attached to the train by which Mr. Pope and his father were returning to Sussex, and the stationmaster allowed them to make the journey in the brougham.

1951 November, “By Train in a Brougham”, in Railway Magazine, page 778:

A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839. It had an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers.

An automobile, a sedan without a roof over the driver's seat.


Vauxhall

→ Dutch: vauxhall

desctree

→ Russian: вокза́л (vokzál, “(transport) station, terminal”), вокза́лъ (vokzál) — Pre-reform orthography (1918), фокса́л (foksál), вокса́л (voksál), воксга́л (voksgál) — obsolete
→ Armenian: վոկզալ (vokzal), վակզալ (vakzal)
→ Azerbaijani: vağzal
→ Belarusian: вакза́л (vakzál)
→ Georgian: ვაგზალი (vagzali)
→ Ingrian: vokzala
→ Kazakh: вокзал (vokzal)
→ Kyrgyz: вокзал (vokzal)
→ Lithuanian: agzolas
→ Mongolian:
Cyrillic script: вокзал (vokzal)
Mongolian script: ᠸᠣᠻᠽᠠᠯ (wokzal)
→ Polish: woksal, wogzał
→ Tajik: вокзал (vokzal)
→ Tatar: вокзал (woqzal)
→ Turkmen: wokzal
→ Udmurt: вокзал (vokzal)
→ Ukrainian: вокза́л (vokzál)
→ Uyghur: ۋوگزال (wogzal)
→ Uzbek: vokzal

→ Polish: Foksal

Falkes de Breauté
Vauxhall (disambiguation)

Generally thought to have originated in the late 13th century, from the name of Falkes de Breauté, the head of King John's mercenaries, who owned a large house in the area, known as Faulke's Hall, later Foxhall, and eventually Vauxhall.

An unincorporated community in Union County, New Jersey, United States.


RT

en-noun

RT (countable and uncountable, plural RTs)


loader

(computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution.

zavaděč

A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, wheel loader, etc.

Unique point-of-purchase materials and display loaders dramatically contribute to the display's attention-getting ability.

1990, Robert B. Konikow, Sales Promotion Design, page 197:

Marketers use dealer loaders to obtain new distributors and push larger quantities of goods.

1995, William M. Pride, O. C. Ferrell, Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, page 591:

Dealer (or buying) loaders are gifts offered to resellers for stocking products. Many companies specialize in providing premium and gift items, and publish catalogues from which you can select appropriate items.

2001, Stuart Clark Rogers, Marketing Strategies, Tactics, and Techniques, page 172:

(marketing) An incentive given to a dealer.


MiG

From Russian МиГ (MiG), from Микоя́н (Mikoján) (from Armenian Միկոյան (Mikoyan)) + Гуре́вич (Gurévič), the names of the original designers: Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich.

Any of a series of Soviet and Russian fighter aircraft.

Artem Mikoyan
Mikhail Gurevich (aircraft designer)

米格

any of a series of Soviet and Russian fighter aircraft


Merc

His dad's well rich: he's got a Merc and two BMWs.

Some people might like to get a train to work / Or drive in, in a Beamer or a Merc

2005, “London Underground”, performed by Amateur Transplants:

(slang, especially UK, Commonwealth) Clipping of Mercedes-Benz.


travois

en-verb

travois (third-person singular simple present travoises, present participle travoising, simple past and past participle travoised)

travoises (present singular third-person)
travoising (participle present)
travoised (participle past)
travoised (past)

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

(transitive) To transport (someone or something) by means of a travois.

kantaa purilailla

(transitive) to transport (someone or something) by means of a travois; (intransitive) to use a travois to transport loads


tumbril

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.


skiff

en-verb

skiff (third-person singular simple present skiffs, present participle skiffing, simple past and past participle skiffed)

skiffs (present singular third-person)
skiffing (participle present)
skiffed (participle past)
skiffed (past)

From Middle English skif, from Middle French esquif, from Old Italian schifo (“small boat”), from Lombardic skif (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“boat, ship”). Doublet of ship.

(nautical, transitive) To navigate in a skiff.


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”).

(historical) The front compartment of a railway carriage.


Rolls-Royce

The original company was established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.

Any of several British companies that make motor cars, aero engines, etc.

رُولْز رُويْس

British brand - manufacturer(s) of cars, aero engines, etc.