dghaisa

Mediterranean peoples are thought to be excitable, but the Maltese stood up to the blitz with great aplomb, especially the dghaisa men who plowed back and forth across the harbours regardless of the raids, the mateys who made the devastated dockyard work, and all who served in units of the armed forces.

2011, Gordon W. Stead, A Leaf upon the Sea, page 63:

A small boat resembling a gondola, common in Malta.


luzzu

The island’s small fishing boats (Luzzus) and karrozzins (horse-drawn carriages) provided a welcome change-of-pace from the flattop Shangri-La’s sailors and airmen had been riding since October.

1964, R[obert] Franklin Brown, Jr., USS Shangri-La, Attack Carrier, Boston, Mass.: Burdette, →OCLC, page 205, column 1:

A traditional, brightly painted Maltese fishing boat.


giraffe unicycle

en-noun

giraffe unicycle (plural giraffe unicycles)

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Because giraffes are generally tall and slim.

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

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

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

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

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

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


crew cab

A type of pickup truck with four full-sized doors.


baradari

baradari (countable and uncountable, plural baradaris)

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

bor

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


loser cruiser

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


playmobile

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


sherut

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

שירות//שֵׁרוּת

ellipsis

מוֹנִית שֵׁרוּת

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

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


stake boat

A boat used to mark the start line in a sailing race.


life car

From this hawser the breeches-buoy or life-car is suspended and drawn between the ship and shore of the endless whip-line. The life-car can also be drawn like a boat between ship and shore without the use of a hawser. The breeches-buoy is a cork life-buoy to which is attached a pair of short canvas breeches, the whole suspended from a traveller block by suitable lanyards. It usually carries one person at a time, although two have frequently been brought ashore together. The life-car, first introduced in 1848, is a boat of corrugated iron with a convex iron cover, having a hatch in the top for the admission of passengers, which can be fastened either from within or without, and a few perforations to admit air, with raised edges to exclude water.

1911, Robert M. Ballantyne, Charles Dibdin and Alfred T. Thorson, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Life-boat and Life-saving Service:

This was no explanation to the girls until Tom Cameron came running back from the house and announced that the crew were going to try to reach the schooner with a line.
"They'll try to save them with the breeches buoy," he said. "They've got a life-car here; but they never use that thing nowadays if they can help. Too many castaways have been near smothered in it, they say. If they can get a line over the wreck they'll haul the crew in, one at a time."

1913, Alice B. Emerson, Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point, Chapter 9:

(historical) A watertight boat or box, travelling on a line from a wrecked vessel to the shore, used to haul people through the waves in a rescue.


T-bird

And she'll have fun, fun, fun
'Til her daddy takes the T-bird away

1964, “Fun, Fun, Fun”, performed by The Beach Boys:


mailcoach

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


single-decker

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

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

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


bowrider

A kind of runabout boat with an open bow area.


tractor unit

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


quickshaw

Shop-owners tried to entice us into their shops, but we caught a quickshaw or taxi and asked for the nuns' convent. Never have I been so scared as I was during the next twenty minutes. There are no traffic rules in Colombo […]

We went out together and hired a quickshaw (as the Ceylonese taxis used to be called) and I took him out for beer and lunch at my favourite Chinese restaurant.

1989, Jane Williams, Tambimuttu: bridge between two worlds:

We drove there in the one taxi in town, a large Brougham automobile of ancient vintage, whimsically called a quickshaw.


zipper machine

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

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


rental car

A car that is or can be rented, usually for a short period, from a car rental company.


hypercar

It’s one of fastest accelerating vehicles on the market today — at about $130,000, it is said to have the acceleration normally found in multimillion-dollar hypercars.

2022 April 28, Farhad Manjoo, “Is Elon Musk Really That Bad?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

An extremely high-performance sports car, ranking above a supercar.


mini digger

a small excavator with a swivelling superstructure, usually mounted on crawler tracks.


motor trade

en-noun

motor trade (countable and uncountable, plural motor trades)

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


cargo bike

Demand for electric cargo bike couriers has boomed since first lockdown, bringing the hope of cleaner, quieter, safer streets.

2022, Amelia Hill, “Cargo without carbon: the rise and rise of e-bike deliveries”, in The Guardian:

It develops a use case in which an electrified three-wheeled cargo bike will become an on-demand, shared autonomous vehicle for the city.

2022 July 24, Katie Plant and Gesa Praetorius, Human Factors in Transportation, AHFE International, →ISBN, page 568:

A bicycle designed for carrying large or heavy loads; by extension, any other pedal cycle such as a tricycle or quadricycle designed in this way.


road bike

A lightweight bicycle with narrow wheels and downward curving handlebars.

kolarzówka

a lightweight bicycle with narrow wheels and downward curving handlebars


kajawah

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

der

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

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

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


carsploitation

Death Race is a rehash of the 1975 carsploitation flick Death Race 2000 that predicted a new millennium in which David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone mow down old people for points.

2008 August 27, Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff, “Total Drag (Race)”, in Santa Fe Reporter:

Cage redefines "up for anything" in this goofy carsploitation movie as a vengeful grandpa on the trail of devil-worshippers who have slaughtered his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter for sacrificial purposes.

2011 June 2, Randall King, chapter DVD, in Winnipeg Free Press:

The film hurtles toward tragic inevitability like Vanishing Point, the classic carsploitation film that Death Proof revises with the triumph of the collective.

2014, Claire Henry, Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 164–165:

(film) A genre of exploitation films focused on cars, typified by scenes of racing and crashing.


frunk

The Model S, showing off both its traditional trunk and its surprising "frunk."

2013 (summer), Standard, issue 17, page 50

I pop the trunk of the Porsche and find ...the engine. […] I walk around the front of the car, pop the other trunk—the frunk?—and discover a tire iron nestled next to the spare.

2014 March 11, T. T. Monday, The Setup Man: A Novel, Doubleday, →ISBN:

[…] a rear cargo area that's more like that of a hatchback than the trunk of a sedan, and a "frunk" where the engine isn't. It's also theoretically safer than a dinosaur-burner, at least in a frontal collision, because the frunk provides a long crumple zone in the front […]

2014 August/September, Charged: Electric Vehicles Magazine, issue 15, page 65

(automotive) A trunk (boot, storage compartment) located at the front rather than the rear of a car.


belandre

Borrowed from French belandre, from Dutch bijlander (whence also English bilander), equivalent to by- + lander.

(nautical) A small flat-bottomed craft, used principally on the rivers, canals, and roadsteads of France.


emergency vehicle

en-noun

emergency vehicle (plural emergency vehicles)

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


daladala

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


von Neumann probe

von Neumann probe (plural von Neumann probes)

(science fiction) A von Neumann machine, or machine capable of self-replication, that is sent on interstellar voyages to investigate or terraform.


Bracewell probe

Bracewell probe (plural Bracewell probes)

Named after Australian astronomer Ronald N. Bracewell, who proposed them in 1960.

A hypothetical machine sent on interstellar voyages to communicate with an alien civilization.


sleeper ship

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(science fiction) A spaceship, all or some of whose passengers are in suspended animation.


carromata

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

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


company car

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


dugout canoe

(nautical) A canoe made by digging out the centre of a tree trunk.


breedermobile

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Jawa

Genericization of a trade name and its founders. Acronym of "Ja"neček and "Wa"nderer.


jaun

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

1851, Henry Meredith Parker, Bole Ponjis:

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

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

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


Birmingham dribbler

Birmingham dribbler (plural Birmingham dribblers)

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

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


knarr

This summer, one of these Knarrs is being delivered to Johannes Westergaard of New York, and another to Gerhard Lorenz of the Grosse Isle Yacht Club, Michigan.

The Knarr soon attracted the interest of local regatta sailors, who liked its lines and performance.
Back in Scandinavia, the Danish Sailing Association became interested in building Knarrs.

2008, Dieter Loibner, Folkboat Story: From Cult to Classic—the Renaissance of a Legend, page 39:

A type of modern long-keeled sailing boat.


shifter cart

(motor racing) A type of small personal vehicle used in racing.


caraholic

FWIW, we drove a Renault Megane when we were in France a couple of years ago. I'm not a caraholic, all I usually care about is that it get me from point A to point B, which the Megane did very nicely. Of course, it was almost brand new...

2001 June 12, Alden Hackmann, “Re: What were they thinking?”, in rec.crafts.metalworking (Usenet):

'I live about two minutes away from here. I could actually walk here faster than I can drive – if I wasn't such a lazy caraholic. […]

2005, Mandasue Heller, The Charmer, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

"I am a caraholic, so I have several models at my disposal. I like variety in my vehicles."

2008, Gloria Morgan, Love's Best Gift, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 47:

(informal) A person who is addicted to driving or collecting cars.


lunar lifeboat

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At 141 hours and 30 minutes, the Lunar Module, Aquarius, after successfully fulfilling its contingency role as a Lunar Lifeboat, was jettisoned in preparation for the final plunge into the Earth's atmosphere.

1970, Jim Lovell, "The Flight of Apollo 13—A Successful Failure," Society of Experimental Test Pilots Technical Review, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 130 (Google search result) (retrieved 30 July 2015)

As the "lunar lifeboat" neared the Earth, the hard problem loomed of how to separate the vehicles before they entered the atmosphere.

1970 Sept., Steven Morris, "How Blacks View Mankind's “GIANT STEP”," Ebony, p. 35 (Google preview) (retrieved 30 July 2015)

[T]he world held its collective breath as the astronauts of Apollo 13 climbed into their lunar lifeboat Aquarius and safely returned to earth.

2012 September 13, Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, “Sermon”, in Washington National Cathedral, retrieved 2015-07-30:

(space sciences) In the US Apollo moon program, a lunar module repurposed as a makeshift shelter for an astronaut crew returning to earth after a mishap necessitating cancellation of a moon landing; the emergency procedure of using the lunar module in this manner.


Beetle

(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011).


veteran car

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


Mustang

From mustang (“a horse of the North American west”).

An American sports car, manufactured by Ford Motor Company from 1964 till present, a cultural icon and the longest-produced Ford nameplate.


ambatch

ambatch (usually uncountable, plural ambatches)

Likely borrowed from an Ethiopian language.

(countable) A raft made from bundles of the stems of this plant.


private car

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

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

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


bawley

It is ten o'clock in the day; the bawleys have returned from the fishing grounds, and scores of them have anchored in the Ray—a deep stretch of water lying between the spit of sand that extends from the end of Canvey Island close up to Southend Pier, and the mud-flats of Leigh.

1891, G. A. Henty, chapter 1, in A Chapter of Adventures:

What a sight it must have been a century ago when Harwich Quay was lined with bawleys—east coast sailing craft designed for catching shrimps and whitebait.

2010 June 5, Brian Jackman, “Walton Backwaters: Going with the flow in Essex”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2015-09-20:

(nautical) A small fishing boat, equipped with sails, used mainly in the estuary of the Thames, England.


landwhale

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

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

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

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

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

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


Ducati

From Italian Ducati, from ducato (“ducat”)
* (motorcycle): Named after the company founder, Antonio Cavalieri Ducati.

A surname from Italian, equivalent to English Ducat.


pulwar

When at sail, the Halder budgerow always towed another, smaller boat in its wake, a pulwar […]

2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 40:

A keelless riverboat used in northeast India and Bangladesh, chiefly to carry cargo.


Yankee cheese-box

Yankee cheese-box (plural Yankee cheese-boxes)

The old description of her departed predecessor, " a Yankee cheese-box on a raft," will give one a better idea of her external appearance than any chapter which could be written.

1866, William O. Blake, Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion, volume 2, page 228:

(slang, dated, US) The USS Monitor, USS Montauk and similar American Civil War-era ironclad ships.


on it like a car bonnet

From English on it with the fanciful elaboration like a car bonnet, the latter part chosen because it rhymes with the first part.

Students have described being focused like... / ... An eagle watching its prey ... a footballer with their eye on the ball ... ‘on it like a car bonnet’ ... catching a wave ... ‘just do it’ ... rolling your sleeves up ... keeping the rhythm in a band ... in the zone ... in a bubble ...a tiger

2015, Jeff Gill, Will Medd, Get Sorted: How to Make the Most of Your Student Experience, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 49:

‘I had my researchers check the files on all the mispers and cold cases five years either side of that date estimate, on females of that approximate age. This is what they found. Fill your boots.’ He took a large gulp of his drink. / ‘I’m impressed, you've been moving fast.’ / ‘On it like a car bonnet, mate.’

2015, Peter James, You Are Dead, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN:

We'll spin it that you and me were having a friendly chat over a pint, and you just happened to mention the victim hiring you to find a necklace. Whereupon I, seeing as how I knew stuff you didn't, was on it like a car bonnet and got you to sing like a canary what's won the X Factor and got top billing at the Royal Opera House.

2016 July, J. L. Merrow, Blow Down: The Plumber's Mate, Cincinnati, Oh.: Samhain Publishing, →ISBN:

(simile, humorous) Synonym of on it (“actively working to solve a problem, etc.”)


megaship

2000, Leigh B. Boske, "Policy Research Project on Transportation in the Americas" in "Transportation in the Americas: its role in international trade, economic integration, and sustainable development"
"The cost structure of a megaship has characteristics associated with economies of scale because fixed costs are extremely high and marginal costs are low. Megaships' reduce transport costs on the margin because they are able to ship […] "

a very large ship; a ship that is among the world's largest


fishing vessel

A fishing boat, usually a relatively large one.


hexerei

(historical, nautical) A galley with six banks of oars.


Greyhound

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

1976, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “New York State of Mind”, in Turnstiles:


invalid carriage

invalid carriage (plural invalid carriages)

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


hydrocar

Several hydrocars have been manufactured since then — nifty little things with a price tag of several hundred thousand dollars that can be fueled at one of the 63 hydrogen stations throughout the country.

2009 August 9, “A Dream of Hydrogen”, in New York Times:


snow groomer

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


city bus

city bus (plural city buses or city busses)

city buses (plural)
city busses (plural)

A bus that carries people across a city.


motor caravan

recreational vehicle
recreational vehicle

A motorised caravan; camper, motor home, recreational vehicle


Yamaha

From Japanese ヤマハ. Named after Torakusu Yamaha (山葉 寅楠 (Yamaha Torakusu)), the company's founder.

Actually, if you can find an enduro in which non-street-legal machinery can compete, and the event isn't going to be an extremely difficult one, you can ride it on the Yamaha.

1975 January, Cycle World Magazine, page 71:

By the time we were finished, we had learned that these new Yamahas are a lot of things—but that slow and boring definitely are not two of them.

1986 January, “Yamaha: Back To The Future”, in Cycle World, volume 25, number 1, page 32, column 3:

Astride my Yamaha I ride along the Savo road – on my way to the cinema to see the new Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me.

2009 June 18, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 181:

A product manufactured by Yamaha, particularly a motorcycle.


box standard

en-adj

box standard (comparative more box standard, superlative most box standard)

more box standard (comparative)
most box standard (superlative)

Originally in reference to the hollow-tube frames used as cases or mounting in various machines but now usually understood in reference to factory packaging and default standards.

(UK colloquial, used especially in automotive, motorcycling, engineering and technical contexts) Synonym of standard, especially with connotations of plainness and lack of modification.


gravel bike

This is a very new category, and honestly, if you walk into a bike shop and ask for a gravel bike, you risk bewildered stares or maybe even laughter, because not everyone agrees that a gravel-specific bike is necessary.

2015, Selene Yeager, The Bicycling Big Book of Cycling for Women […] , Rodale Books, →ISBN:

It's called a gravel bike, and seems to combine the advantages of both road and mountain bikes – with a similar ability to lap up the miles on tarmac as a road bike, while still being very capable off-road.

2017, Chiz Dakin, Cycling in the Peak District […] , Cicerone Press Limited, →ISBN:

A type of road bike similar to those used in cyclocross but geared toward gravel roads.


shikara

You can also take a shikara to a library right in the heart of the Dal.

2016 June 19, “Cafe culture brews in chinar country”, in The Times of India:

(India, nautical) A type of small wooden boat


motorcycle taxi

en-noun

motorcycle taxi (plural motorcycle taxis)

A motorcycle which transports passengers in return for payment.


family car

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


faltboat

From German Faltboot, literally "folding boat".


BMX bike

An off-road sport bicycle, usually having 20-inch (508-mm) wheels, used for racing and stunt riding.


fluyt

From Dutch fluyt, archaic spelling of fluit. Doublet of flauta and flute.

Thanks to the adoption by Amsterdam shipyards of standardized designs and labour-saving devices, the fluyt maximized carrying capacity and minimized cost.

2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 97:

(historical) A kind of Dutch sailing vessel developed in the 16th century, used to transport cargo.


hopper car

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


straight-eight

Coordinate term: V8

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


cable ferry

(nautical) a type of ferry which propels itself by means of one or more steel cables laid across a body of water.


removal van

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

stěhovací vůz

a vehicle for moving furniture and other household goods


gas boat

Round noon the gas boat’s impudent sputter ticked out across the wide face of the Naas River.

1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck:

(Canada, US) A boat powered by a petrol engine.


patrol boat

A relatively small naval vessel designed for coastal defence.

巡邏艇 /巡逻艇

small naval vessel designed for coast defence


dumpcart

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

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

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

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


people pod

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


lakatoi

A double-hulled sailing watercraft of Papua New Guinea.


motor ship

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

(nautical) A seagoing vessel powered by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel. Compare with steamship.

moottorilaiva

ship powered by an internal combustion engine


arm pump

compartment syndrome
compartment syndrome

(motorcycling) Chronic exertional compartment syndrome of the forearm.


pedal cycle

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


tonjon

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

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

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

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

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


water bike

A hydrofoil bike; a bicycle frame with the rear wheel replaced by a lift hydrofoil and propeller, and the front wheel replaced by a rudder, lift hydrofoil and elevator hydrofoil


fat bike

From fat + bike, from the fat tires such bicycles are equipped with, and their correspondingly wider frames needed to accommodate the width of the tires.

(cycling, winter sports) A bicycle equipped with larger than normal tyres and a wider frame to accommodate them, which provides better traction on off-road surfaces such as sand or snow.


SX

(sports, motorcycling) Abbreviation of supercross.


wager-boat

From where they sat they could get a glimpse of the main stream […]; and just then a wager-boat flashed into view, the rower—a short, stout figure—splashing badly and rolling a good deal, but working his hardest. The Rat stood up and hailed him, but Toad—for it was he—shook his head and settled sternly to his work.

1908, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 1, in The Wind in the Willows, London: Methuen:

A high-performance boat for sculling, and winning wagers.


auxiliary cruiser

auxiliary cruiser (plural auxiliary cruisers)

(military, nautical) An armed merchantman, typically used as a commerce raider or as a convoy escort.

German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
auxiliary cruiser


bakfiets

bakfiets (plural bakfietsen or bakfietses)

Borrowed from Dutch bakfiets, from bak (“container such as a box, crate, tray, or tub”) + fiets (“bicycle”). Bak is derived from French bac (“vat; ferry”), possibly from Vulgar Latin *baccu (“container”), from Latin bacar (“type of wine glass”), possibly from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos, “amphora”), possibly from Egyptian bꜣkt (“oil flask”). The etymology of fiets is uncertain; it is possibly derived from regional (southern Limburg) French vietse (“to run quickly”), possibly ultimately from vite (“(informal or obsolete) fast, quick”) (see further at that word).
The plural form bakfietsen is borrowed from Dutch bakfietsen.

Utility bikes are the pickup trucks of the cycling world. […] Imported from the Netherlands, the Bakfiets brand is like a pedal-powered minivan for soccer moms.

2007 November 5, Paul Tolme, “A Minivan With Real Pedal Power”, in Newsweek, page 65:

Still commonly used and manufactured today, the bakfiets typically consists of a frame with a longer wheelbase and a large cargo container positioned either between the wheels or over the front wheel.

2013, Alex Newson, “The cargo bike”, in Fifty Bicycles That Changed the World, Octopus, →ISBN:

Imported bakfietsen have some major advantages: Huge cargo capacity (you can easily carry a reclining adult, or two or more children plus a week of groceries in the box).

2015, Raleigh Briggs, Robyn Jasko, Elly Blue, The Urban Homesteader, Microcosm Publishing, →ISBN, page 94:

Despite a rise of car ownership in the early twentieth century, the bakfiets maintained its role in urban delivery, and soon proved useful for transporting children as well—that is, until the arrival of motorized trucks, vans, and buses, and a corresponding increase in the size of goods being transported.

2018, Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett, Building the Cycling City, Island Press, →ISBN, page 110:

(cycling, originally in the Netherlands) A bicycle or tricycle with a long wheelbase between the front wheel and handlebars holding a large box, originally used solely to transport goods but now also commonly for carrying young children.

christianiacykel

bicycle or tricycle with a large box, originally used to transport goods but now more commonly for carrying young children


Welman

All clandestine equipment devised at Station IX in Welwyn Garden City had names starting with Wel, e.g. Welbike, Welrod.

(historical) A one-man British midget submarine developed for use in World War II, though barely used.


trehantiri

trehantiri (plural trehantiris or trehantiria)

trehantiris (plural)
trehantiria (plural)

Cognate with Greek τρεχαντήρι (trechantíri, “small watercraft”)

A Greek small, double-ended watercraft, chiefly used for fishing.


twakow

(nautical, historical) A kind of single-masted traditional boat with a junk rig, formerly used on the Singapore River along with the tongkang.


Leyland

en-proper noun

Leyland (countable and uncountable, plural Leylands)

Yellowhead County
Yellowhead County#English

A locality in Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada.


helicopter carrier

en-noun

helicopter carrier (plural helicopter carriers)

(military) A class of aircraft carrier designed to operate helicopters


McLaren

From Bruce McLaren, Formula One driver and race team founder.

(automotive) McLaren Automotive, a British sports/supercar manufacturer.


Studebaker

From German Stutenbecker, from Staudenbecker, from Stauden+Becker.

A former US manufacturer of automobiles.


Pontiac

Most places are named after Pontiac, a war chief, whose name is a borrowing of Ottawa Bwandiag.

An unincorporated community in Clay County, Indiana, United States.

An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kansas, United States.

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

Providence County
Providence County#English

A historical village in Rhode Island, United States, located in both Warwick, Kent County, and Cranston, Providence County.


oil tanker

Giant oil-tankers can often be seen easing up and down Milford Haven, where a vast new port has been developed since the late 1950s.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:

(nautical) A ship that transports oil (petroleum), such as crude oil or bunker oil.


slicktop

(US, Canada, law enforcement, informal) a police car with painted markings and decals but no external rooftop lights.


way way back

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


DeSoto

An unincorporated community in Delaware County, Indiana, United States. Also spelt Desoto.

A city in Dallas County, Texas, United States.

a brand of automobile produced and sold by Chrysler Corporation between 1928 and 1961.


slave ship

(historical) A ship designed for the transportation of slaves, especially during the 17th and 18th century.


float-on float-off

(transport, nautical) A form of marine vessel which allows large floating objects (such as other ships, or oil platforms, etc) to be floated atop and floated off the ship's transport decktop.


bin lorry

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


dragline

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

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

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

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

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

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

dragline excavator
dragline excavator#English

dragline

short for dragline excavator — see also dragline excavator


meatwagon

'Meatwagon is here,' Warren said as the ambulance pulled up with only one headlight and a smashed grill.

1990, Robert Henry, No man alone, page 110:

He gets the walk-ins, I drive the meatwagon and fetch home the ones like you.

2001, David Drake, Ranks of Bronze, →ISBN:

'Goddamn, Sollie...hold on brother. Meatwagon's comin'!'

2009, Red Edit Red, City Smells, →ISBN, page 18:

Alternative form of meat wagon
An ambulance.


tiller truck

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

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


rulley

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

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

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

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

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


ten-second car

(drag racing) A car which can complete a quarter-mile from a standing start in 10.0 to 10.999 seconds.


warm hatch

(colloquial) A car that is a junior version of a hot hatch, offering moderately high performance without sacrificing practicality.


French navvy

(historical) An earth-digging machine; a kind of excavator.


gurry-butt

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

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

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


ox-butt

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

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

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


slide-butt

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

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

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

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


jet boat

a boat with water jet propulsion used primarily in shallow water


dredgeboat

Probably a borrowing from Scots dreg-boat, dreg-bot, equivalent to dredge + boat.


dress for the slide, not the ride

There's merit to the saying, "Dress for the slide, not the ride." Even at a modest 30 miles per hour this is.

2005, Pat Hahn, How to Ride a Motorcycle, →ISBN:

Moto pants are probably the trickiest aspect of my riding getup. I don't like any gear that really shouts “I RIDE A MOTORCYCLE,” but I also want to make sure I'm protected. Dress for the slide, not the ride, right?

2016 June 24, Morgan Gales, “UglyBros Motorpool Jeans Reviewed”, in Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine:

Riders are told to “dress for the slide, not the ride.” This means you should be completely outfitted to improve your chances of surviving a crash.

2017 July 16, Amanda Smith, “Investigative Reporter Amanda Smith learns what it takes to get a motercycle license”, in WKBN News:

“Dress for the slide, not the ride," said Florida State University Police Officer Sheffield. “Doesn't always look cool it's not always I was just going down the street. But if you get hit by a car and your head hits the asphalt or if you just simply fall over and it wipes out from underneath you. That's where a lot of the damage comes from. A lot of the injury comes from. Its traumatic brain injury."

2017 December 11, Taylor Knight, “Some Question How Safe Mopeds And Motorcycles Are For College Students”, in WUSF News:

(motorcycling) When choosing clothing for riding a motorcycle, priority should be given to protective gear that helps one survive an accident.


okada

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

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

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


power car

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

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

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


danfo

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

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

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

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

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

2015, Tade Thompson, Making Wolf, →ISBN:

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

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

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

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

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


mini-cup

After eliminations in four Southern California areas, the number one teams will race in early February in a mini-cup series.

1971 March, “Best Test In the West”, in MotorBoating, volume 127, number 3:

The pros will instruct you about your position before you set off for the race course in the waters off Phillipsburg for an exciting three-hour mini-cup regatta.

2000 January-October, “Twelves in St. Maarten”, in Cruising World, volume 26, numbers 1-10, page 131:

(sailboat racing) A race that is modeled after, but smaller than, the America's Cup.


drag boat

A powerboat or motorboat used for drag racing, particularly a purpose-built one.


achaba

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

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


food truck

→ Dutch: food truck

desc

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

→ Indonesian: truk makanan (calque)

→ Italian: food truck

→ Japanese: フードトラック (fūdotorakku)

→ Korean: 푸드트럭 (pudeuteureok) (calque)

→ Portuguese: food truck

→ Russian: фудтрак (fudtrak)

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


sternpicker

The modern sternpickers are quite a different matter. Sleek, efficient, redolent of power, they easily spool their 1,500-foot nets off large drums set on the afterdeck and have taken most of the back-breaking work out of fishing, although enough remains to still qualify it as very hard work.

1985, Earl Roberge, Columbia: Great River of the West, page 146:

Word got around that it had won the Columbia River fishing boat race, as a bowpicker, before being rebuilt as a sternpicker for the Inlet fishery.

2008, Bert Bender, Catching the Ebb: Drift-fishing for a Life in Cook Inlet, →ISBN, page 145:

As the fishery evolved, the practical and beautiful butterfly fleet—dories named for their widespread sails—gave way to more prosaic but still handsome diesel sternpickers and bowpickers.

2012, Robert Michael Pyle, Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place, →ISBN:

A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the stern of the boat.


McCar

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Their kids are fairly popular, and we refer to everything they have as McCars, McClothes, McToys.

1985, Joni Hilton, Joni Winn, Braces, gym suits, and early-morning seminary, →ISBN:

I know most of you are just going from one McNowhere to another — with your McKids in your McCars on your McCations.

1999, Lavonne Mueller, Monologues from the Road: Audition and Performance Pieces, →ISBN:

"A Ford Escort, also known as a McCar," he said.

2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 131:

(derogatory) Any popular middlebrow model of car.


tartanilla

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

suffix

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

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


LaSalle

en-prop

LaSalle (countable and uncountable, plural LaSalles)

(automotive) a brand of automobile produced by General Motors between 1927 and 1940.


tro tro

(Ghana) A minibus operated as a shared taxi.


horse and carriage

en-noun

horse and carriage (plural horses and carriages)

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


horse and buggy

horse and buggy (plural horses and buggies)


trajinera

Borrowed from Spanish trajinera, from trajinar (“to transport”).

A type of small colourful boat maneuverered with a pole


Yammy

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


Bugatti

en:Bugatti
en:Bugatti (disambiguation)
en:Ettore Bugatti

From French Bugatti. Named after the company’s founder, Ettore Bugatti.

A French motor car manufacturer, a subsidiary of Volkswagen.


koneke

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

1931, New Zealand Railways Magazine - Volume 6:

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

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

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

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

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


karozzin

karozzin (plural karozzins or karozzini)

Borrowed from Maltese karozzin, karrozzin, from Italian carrozza (“horse-drawn or railroad carriage”), from carro (“means of transport for carrying goods”) (from Latin carrus (“wagon; four-wheeled baggage cart”), or from carruca (“(obsolete) carriage; coach”) (from Latin carrūca (“carriage; coach; chariot”)).

der

The horse cab (karrozzin) has not yet been driven off the street by the motor-car, and provides a pleasant mode of making short journeys; [...]

1937, Great Britain and the East, volume 49, London: Great Britain and the East, Limited, →OCLC, page 985, column 1:

Characteristic of the island is the horse-drawn karrozzin—unfortunately rapidly disappearing—but which you will still see in many places around Valletta, [...]

1963, Harold Rose, Your Guide to Malta, London: Alvin Redman, →OCLC, page 77:

The island’s small fishing boats (Luzzus) and karrozzins (horse-drawn carriages) provided a welcome change-of-pace from the flattop Shangri-La’s sailors and airmen had been riding since October.

1964, R[obert] Franklin Brown, Jr., USS Shangri-La, Attack Carrier, Boston, Mass.: Burdette, →OCLC, page 205, column 1:

The Maltese horse-drawn cab – the karozzin – was introduced in 1856 and is still a familiar sight in Valletta.

1969, Bryan Balls, Traveller’s Guide to Malta: A Concise Guide to the Mediterranean Islands of Malta, Gozo, and Comino, Valletta, Malta: Thornton Cox, →OCLC, page 15:

Those wishing to go at a gentler pace can hire a karrozin for short sight-seeing trips or take a dghaisa across the bays and harbours.

1969, Charles Owen, The Maltese Islands, New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: Frederick A. Praeger, →OCLC, page 150:

Horse carriages, so popular in years gone by, reappeared in surprising number, including dozens of those graceful, elegantly appointed victorias (called karrozins) that had formerly served as Malta's taxis.

1984, Charles A[lbert] Jellison, Besieged: The World War II Ordeal of Malta, 1940–1942, Hanover, N.H.: Published for the University of New Hampshire by University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 78:

When Valletta's breathless heat became intolerable, the family would load all their furniture onto carts and, with their two maids, climb into two horse-drawn karozzin.

2000, Aline P’nina Tayar, “A View from the Balcony”, in How Shall We Sing?: A Mediterranean Journey Through a Jewish Family, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia, →ISBN, page 50:

Fürst missed the commercial foresight to paint more of it and less of the dazzling sheen of waves. With ghonnellas, dgħajsas and karrozzini, his paintings would today fetch four or five figure prices at auction.

2003, Giovanni Bonello, Histories of Malta, volumes 4 (Convictions and Conjectures), Valletta, Malta: Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, →ISBN, page 224, column 2:

In the face of stiff competition from the trams, the karozzini or gharries go on strike and assemble on the glacis outside Portes Des Bombes.

2004, Joseph Binnici, Michael Cassar, A Chronicle of Twentieth Century Malta, Malta: Book Distributors Limited, →ISBN, page 28:

On Friday 13 May at 2.30pm, at the entrance to Mdina, a karozzin driver had the cheek to ask four young Spanish tourists, presumably here for a few hours on a cruise, Lm30 for a 20 to 30 minute panoramic tour of the Silent City.

2005 May 15, “One big joke”, in The Malta Independent, St. Julian’s, Malta: Standard Publications, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-29:

For our riding lessons we went by Carrozzi, (horse-drawn Garry), always with the same driver Carlo, who took us cross country at about six in the morning, to the Marsa Polo Club [...]

2007, Christian Lamb, “The Secrets of Radar and Plotting”, in Liz Cowley, Auriol Griffith-Jones, editors, I Only Joined for the Hat: Redoubtable Wrens at War: Their Trials Tribulations and Triumphs, London: Bene Factum Publishing, →ISBN, page 44:

Shortly after dawn, a steady stream of people made its way on foot, in flat cars, or in karrozini (cabs) to the Cathedral Church at Mdina. The ceremony took place in a wartime setting with the cathedral stripped of many of its treasures.

2012, Dennis A. Castillo, “The Summer of 1942”, in The Santa Marija Convoy: Faith and Endurance in Wartime Malta, 1940–1942, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 189:

After passing the houses a few minutes ago I came on alone up the road towards a line of trees and I noticed a Maltese horse-drawn cab, called a carozzi or garry.

2013, Denis Barnham, “Roof Away”, in Malta Spitfire Pilot: Ten Weeks of Terror April–June 1942, London: Grub Street Publishing, →ISBN:

He listened to the bells of horse-drawn karozzins. His life was temporarily becalmed and there was nothing he could do but wait for the time it would resume.

2019, Tim Pears, chapter 1, in The Redeemed (The West Country Trilogy; 3), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (The Battle 1916):

(Malta, road transport) A type of traditional carriage pulled by a horse or pair of horses.


recovery vehicle

en-noun

recovery vehicle (plural recovery vehicles)

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

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

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


well-boat

They [the "Hollanders", that is, Dutch] have One Hundred Dogger-Boats, of One Hundred and Fifty Tuns a piece, or thereabouts: Seaven Hundred Pincks and Well-Boats, from Sixty to One Hundred Tuns a piece; which altogether fiſh upon the Coaſts of England and Scotland, for Cod and Ling only; [...]

1695, [Company of the Royal Fishery of England], “A Collection, with Some Observations, Touching the Royal Fishery of Great Britain and Ireland. [First, Increase of Shipping.]”, in A Collection of Advertisements, Advices, and Directions, Relating to the Royal Fishery within the British Seas, &c. […], London: Printed for H.M. and are to be sold by J. Whitlock […], →OCLC, page 21:

In our way we overtook a great Jonk that came from Palimbam, a Town on the Iſland Sumatra: [...] This Veſſel was of the Chineſe make, full of little Rooms or Partitions like our Well-boats, [...]

1699, William Dampier, chapter XIV, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], 4th corrected edition, volume I, London: Printed for James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 401:

[T]hough the people fiſhed ever ſo often, they could never find any ſigns of lobſters being in this part of the ſea: they were therefore continually brought in great wellboats from New England, where they are plentiful; but it happened that one of theſe wellboats broke in pieces near Hellgate, about ten Engliſh miles from New York, and all the lobſters in it got off. Since that time they have ſo multiplied in this part of the ſea, that they are now caught in the greateſt abundance.

1748 November 11, Peter Kalm [i.e., Pehr Kalm], “October the 31st [1748; Julian calendar]”, in translated by John Reinhold Forster [i.e., Johann Reinhold Forster], Travels into North America; Containing Its Natural History, and a Circumstantial Account of Its Plantations and Agriculture in General, […] Translated into English […], volume I, Warrington, Cheshire: Printed by William Eyres, published 1770, →OCLC, page 241:

VIII. And it be further enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That no Live Salmon, Salmon Trout, Turbot, Large Freſh Cod, Half Freſh Cod, Haddock, Seate, Freſh Ling, Soles or Whitings, ſhall at any Time after the Arrival thereof at the Nore as aforeſaid be put into any Well Boat or Store Boat from or out of any ſuch Fishing Ship, Sloop, Smack or other Fiſhing Veſſel or Veſſels as aforeſaid, in which the ſame ſhall have been brought to the Nore; [...]

1759, “Cap. XXVII. An Act to Repeal so Much of an Act Passed in the Twenty-ninth Year of His Present Majesty’s Reign, Concerning a Free Market for Fish at Westminster, […]”, in [Owen Ruffhead], editor, The Statutes at Large, from the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of King George the Second to the End of the Second Year of the Reign of King George the Third. […], volume VIII, London: Printed for Mark Basket, […], and by the assigns of Robert Basket; [a]nd by Henry Woodfall and William Strahan, […], published 1764, →OCLC, page 474:

And the rivers are moſt of them very full of fiſh, eſpecially in the back country, to which parties are made in boats with nets; in which excurſions ſhooting is joined: the fiſh they take are brought home alive in well-boats, and put into their ſtores: [...]

1775, “an American” [pseudonym; John Mitchell or Arthur Young?], chapter XIII, in American Husbandry. Containing an Account of the Soil, Climate, Production and Agriculture, of the British Colonies in North-America and the West-Indies; […] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Bew, […], →OCLC, page 187:

Where circumstances permit, they [the fish] are in general used in a fresh state; and even in large cities, where the supply must be brought from a distance, various expedients are resorted to, to prevent the progress of putrefaction. By far the best contrivance for this purpose is the well-boat, in which fish may be brought to the place of sale even in a living state.

1822, John Fleming, “Fishes”, in The Philosophy of Zoology; or A General View of the Structure, Functions, and Classification of Animals. … In Two Volumes, volume II, Edinburgh: Printed [by P[atrick] Neill] for Archibald Constable & Co. […]; London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., →OCLC, page 371:

When taken, the crabs are kept alive in well[-]boats, until wanted.

1867, J[ohn] G[eorge] Wood, “The Crustacea”, in The Boy’s Own Book of Natural History, London, New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 333:

A well boat or small vessel with a water compartment, to which sea water has access, is ideal for the transportation of marine specimens. There are many such vessels in use along the Atlantic coast wherever it is customary to carry fishes and lobsters to market alive. [...] The New York Aquarium has a well boat for this work, which permits great extension of the collecting field and gives excellent results.

1928, Charles Haskins Townsend, “Collecting the Specimens”, in The Public Aquarium: Its Construction, Equipment, and Management: Appendix VII to the Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1928 (Bureau of Fisheries Document; no. 1045), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC; in Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1928 with Appendixes: In Two Parts, part I, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1929, →OCLC, page 284:

Inland transport of live cod is a far cheaper method than wellboat transport. On the other hand the psychological stress on the fish is much higher and it can by no means be compared with wellboat transport in this field.

1970, Robert M. Howland, Gertrude Kavanagh, editors, Sport Fishery Abstracts: An Abstracting Service for Fishery Research and Management, volume 15, number 1, Narragansett, R.I.: Narragansett Marine Game Fish Laboratory, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, →ISSN, →OCLC, paragraph 12110, pages 200–201:

We had to intercept, load, and run the shipment to our smaller, faster T-Crafts and well boats waiting near the shore to take it to a stash house. A typical job for us.

2015 April, Tim McBride, with Ralph Berrier, Jr., Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 34:

Another good example of the development of the specialized service supplier is the wellboats industry. ASENAV (a firm located in Valdivia, Los Rios region), a manufacturer of marine vessels, undertook the production of wellboats with up to 800-ton capacity for the transport of salmon.

2016, Michiko Iizuka, Pedro Roje, Valentina Vera, “The Development of Salmon Agriculture in Chile into an Internationally Competitive Industry: 1985–2007”, in Akio Hosono, Michiko Iizuka, Jorge Katz, editors, Chile’s Salmon Industry: Policy Challenges in Managing Public Goods, Tokyo: Springer Japan, →ISBN, section 3.2 (The Expansion of Intermediate Inputs and Services Suppliers), page 86:

(nautical) A fishing vessel designed to carry live fish in a tank or well.


sandlighter

A small boat used to gather sand and bring it to shore for use in construction etc.


cop car

I backed my car into a cop car the other day / Well, he just drove off, sometimes life's okay

2004, Modest Mouse (lyrics and music), “Float On”, in Good News for People Who Love Bad News:


tomol

For this reason a better understanding of their earliest acquisition and the implications for the invention of the tomol require further analysis using the higher caliber "high-resolution" data.

2004, Jeanne E. Arnold, Foundations of Chumash Complexity, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, →ISBN:

K'twa, the primary tomol maker, had worked his way up the society to become the most important carpenter in the village. It was his job to ensure that the village had a sufficient number of tomols.

2012, Carl W. McClure, And That's the Truth!: Meaningful Fiction to Stimulate Your Mind and Nurture Your Soul, →ISBN, page 656:

Apart from the dalca of southern Chile, the only pre-Columbian planked boat in the Americas is the tomol, built by the Chumash Indians, who lived in the Channel Islands and along the coast between Los Angeles and Point Conception[.]

2013, Lincoln Paine, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, Vintage, →ISBN, page 34:

A planked boat used by the Chumash and Tongva peoples of California since pre-Columbian times, propelled by crouching occupants using paddles.


floating light

(historical) A ship, bearing a light, moored on sunken rocks to warn sailors of danger.


Moon buggy

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

A manned wheeled vehicle used to traverse the surface of Earth's Moon. It was used in Apollo 15, 16 and 17.


stretch limousine

stretch limousine (plural stretch limousines)

Coordinate term: town car (informal designation)

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

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

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


train ferry

Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].

1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:

Even without the Channel tunnel, British Railways carry on a substantial exchange of traffic with the Continent by the various train ferries, which handle some 500,000 tons of cargo annually.

1960 March, “Talking of Trains: London-Paris in four hours”, in Trains Illustrated, page 134:

(nautical, rail transport) A ferry used to transport rail vehicles from one railway line to another across a stretch of water.


decotora

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

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


generation ship

generation ship (plural generation ships)

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(science fiction, space flight) A type of interstellar spaceship, where generations of humans live and die aboard during the journey through interstellar space, as the journey between stars would take generations.


ginny-carriage

(archaic) A small strong carriage for conveying materials on a railway.


kei car

Partial calque of Japanese 軽自動車 (keijidōsha, literally “light car”).

partial calque

A kind of light passenger automobile sold in Japan. Vehicles of this type are distinguished by the use of smaller engines (with displacement up to 660 cc), and yellow and black (or black and yellow) license plates.


motor pulley

A special pulley attached to an axle of e.g. a motor to extract torque.


Boris bus

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

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

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

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

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

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


factory ship

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(nautical) a vessel, usually part of a fleet, which processes catches of fish or whales while at sea


cargo liner

(nautical) A cargo ship in liner service which carries a small number of passengers, typically limited to 12 to avoid the requirement for the ship to carry a doctor.


hurly-hacket

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

(Scotland, obsolete) A badly-hung carriage.


training ship

(nautical) a ship, often a sailing ship, used to train people as sailors


solar boat

(archaeology, Egyptology) The boat that, in myth, carries the sun on its journey across the sky; solar barque.


liberty ship

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Originally used in a speech by then U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt when the first of the ships were launched to emphasize their purpose, and then later spread.

(nautical) A simple, cheap cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.


disease boat

The loading of diseases into disease-boats, of sins onto scape-goats, the propitiation of the forces of nature by victims, human or animal, sacrifices, ceremonies of re-birth, eucharistic feasts, sexual communions, orgiastic celebrations of the common life, and a host of other things — all said plainly enough what was meant, but not in words.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:

(historical) In early societies, a boat, canoe, etc., in which community members suffering from a disease were exiled in the belief that the evil spirits of the disease would be carried away.


horse litter

/ˈhɔːsˌlɪtə/

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

takhtrawan

enclosed Middle Eastern & South Asian form


galamander

/ˈɡæləmændə/

/ˈɡæləˌmændəɹ/

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

coinage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kennebec Journal
Robertson Quarry Galamander


balinger

(nautical, historical) A small medieval sea-going ship with oars and sails.


dollar van

From their usual fare in the late 20th century.

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

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

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


tractor trailer

en-noun

tractor trailer (plural tractor trailers)


steam chest

One small tooth increase in regulator opening makes a minute increase in steam chest pressure reading and one can feel the clearly perceptible increase in the power output beneath one's feet.

1961 March, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 150:

A chamber in a steam engine or locomotive from which steam from the boiler is distributed to the cylinders.


box van

A truck with an enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area.

bakwagen

truck with enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area


open-topper

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


open-top bus

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

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

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


freight wagon

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

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

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


cheese bus

cheese bus (plural cheese buses or cheese busses)

cheese buses (plural)
cheese busses (plural)

He was singing what he had been humming earlier that morning, first quietly, then as loud as he could: If you ride on the short bus clap your hands If you ride on the cheese bus, clap your hands.

2007, Jonathan Mooney, The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal, page 8:

Then the cheese buses pulled up and all the kids except us headed for the bus.

2009, Simon Jean, Do Nice Guys Ever Finish, page 14:

For me the good old days included walking a long distance to all-black Crummell Elementary School (there were no “cheese” busses back then) and attending all-black schools up through university.

2013, Carrolyn Pichet, Growing up in the Nation’s Capital, page 101:

So anyway, William Esham and I would be in school, but we were not in the same clasroom, but we rode the same bus home, so when it was time to get on the cheese bus (in those days we were not assigned seats, but nowadays, you are), I would get on the bus but I would never talk to anybody because I didn't know anybody at that time.

2014, Ebony Price, Shattered Pieces To A Broken Heart:

(derogatory) A yellow schoolbus, especially the smaller sized versions that are used to transport students with special needs.


froot

"There’s a tiny froot (front boot), and a long if not particularly deep actual boot with 656 litres of lugging capacity.")

2018 June 4, “Jaguar i-Pace review: at last we drive Jag's first EV!”, in Car Magazine, archived from the original on 2019-12-18:

"In Australia, we like ‘froot’, for front boot.")

2014 December 9, “The Tesla Model S ‘Skateboard’ Rolling Chassis Is A Thing Of Beauty”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2022-01-26:

"There is so much luggage space in the boot as well as under the bonnet, in the US that’s called the front trunk or “Frunk”, we call it the “Froot”. ")

2012 June 22, “S”, in Electragirl, archived from the original on 2022-01-26:

(automotive) A boot (storage compartment) located at the front rather than the rear of a car, especially an electric vehicle.


twelve-speed

Many off-the-rack road bikes are now twelve-speeds.

1990, David Chauner, Michael Halstead, The Tour de France Complete Book of Cycling, page 52:


coupé utility

An automobile built on a passenger car chassis but with a truck bed.


steam wagon

The old North Eastern Railway, which was a pioneer in so many directions, obtained powers in 1905 for mechanical road operation, and shortly afterwards began to operate both steam wagons and petrol-driven buses. The steam wagons were used on country cartage services, but presumably they proved too expensive, and they were replaced by petrol-driven vehicles.

1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:

(historical) An early steam-powered road vehicle for carrying freight.


electric rickshaw

electric rickshaw (plural electric rickshaws)

A three-wheeled rickshaw pulled by an electric motor and running on battery.


folkboat

A small, affordable sailboat, rigged as a sloop.


paddlewheeler

People along rivers and the coast who used rowboats and small sailboats for fishing and ferrying learned to dread the sound of a paddlewheeler coming through the mist.

1987, Bob Whittier, Paddle wheel steamers and their giant engines, page 39:

A long drawn-out whistle from a paddlewheeler filled the air.

1995, Cassie Edwards, Savage Pride, page 23:

In the foreground is the deck of the paddlewheeler she is racing.

1999, Graham Wilson, Paddlewheelers of Alaska and the Yukon, page 57:


electric bus

(transport) A passenger bus powered by electricity via an electric motor, with the source of power either from rechargeable batteries or by drawing power from overhead wires. The latter form is generally called a trolleybus.


double grab

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(skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing, motorcycling) A trick that involves grabbing the board, skis, or motorbike with both hands during a jump


side-loader

The tank is designed to withstand all the stresses of handling by side-loader, which are less than with other methods of handling.

1964 August, “Oil transport by demountable tank”, in Modern Railways, page 101:

A forklift truck which has its forks mounted on one side.


landship

armored combat vehicle
armored combat vehicle#English

(archaic, military, 19th century to pre-WWI) An armored combat vehicle, a tank

(archaic, military) A superheavy tank, supertank


land battleship

land battleship (plural land battleships)

From being a vehicle akin to an battleship (“an armored warship”) on land.

armored combat vehicle
armoured combat vehicle#English

(archaic, military, 19th century to pre-WWI) An armored combat vehicle; a tank.

(archaic, military) A superheavy tank; a supertank.


shagging wagon

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those utes also ended up as a 'shagging wagons' after the rodeo, so they were a multi-purpose vehicle, many a country baby was conceived in the back of a Holden ute during the 1950s and 1960s.

Corrine parks in shadows in a corner of the parking lot and proceeds to put all the seats down to make the wagon a shagging wagon, for sure.

2017, Save Horton, Mike's Navy - part five: Changes:


'rari

[…] “I got a Glock in my 'rari, 17 shots, no .38.” […]

2015, Fetty Wap, "679" (song), quoted in 2018, Matthew Oware, I Got Something to Say: Gender, Race, and Social Consciousness in Rap Music, Springer, page 51

Vroom, vroom, vroom, like I'm ridin' a Harley, / but I'm in a 'rari, / sorry not sorry. / Didn't say a peep but I know them birds saw me.

2020, GALXARA and Saweetie, "Sway With Me" (song), "Sway With Me" (album)

(US, hip-hop and rap slang) A Ferrari automobile.


PT boat

The PT boat is not merely a small boat for attack in rivers and inland seas. It is a deadly offensive weapon for use under the most trying conditions [...]

1943, Lawrence Conant, quoting Charles Edison, “The PT Boats: Weapons of Opportunity”, in William Harrison Fetridge, editor, The Navy Reader:

(military, US) A type of fast motor torpedo boat used by the US Navy during World War II.


motor cruiser

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:

(nautical) A small pleasure craft that is fitted with an engine.


Cadillac converter

Cadillac converter (plural Cadillac converters)

From the similarity between catalytic and Cadillac (“brand of luxury automobile”), probably originally a mondegreen (“error arising from the mishearing of a phrase”) and used humorously to allude to the high cost of catalytic converters.

Anyway, wherever he was, all he ever talked about was Cadillac converters and pipe. His work with pipe paid off when he was awarded the honor of "Repairman of the Week."

1992, Ricardo Cortez Cruz, “The Bloods and the Crips, Starring Billy Bugle Boy”, in Straight Outta Compton, Normal, Ill., Boulder, Colo.: University of Colorado; Fiction Collective Two, →ISBN, page 65:

He then asked, “What is a Cadillac converter?” At this point, I'm thinking he doesn't know much about cars; therefore, I went on to explain. From the look on his face, I knew he was setting me up for an attack. He replied, "The proper words are catalytic converter."

2008, Gilbert A. Knowles, “Why Listen to Me?”, in Help Them Pull Their Pants Up: How Mentors and Communities Can Empower Young African American Men, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, part I (The Preamble), page 28:

We were a strong competitor throughout the competition, but then the Cadillac''' converter fell off, which hurt our emissions and place in the overall standings.

2011 November, Robert Hartwell Fiske, “cadillac”, in Robert Hartwell Fiske’s Dictionary of Unendurable English: A Compendium of Mistakes in Grammar, Usage, and Spelling with Commentary on Lexicographers and Linguists, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 86:

catalytic converter
catalytic converter#English

(chiefly Southern US, malapropism, nonstandard, often humorous) Synonym of catalytic converter (“chamber containing a finely divided platinum catalyst in which carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust are oxidized to carbon dioxide”)


pedo van

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

serial killer van
serial killer van#English

(slang, humorous) Synonym of serial killer van


tachanka

(historical) A horse-drawn machine gun, usually a cart or open wagon with the gun installed in the back.


turbosail

A ship that uses rotating vertical cylinders instead of sails


Wolseley

From Middle English Ulselei, from Old English Wulfsieslega, from the personal name Wulfsiġe (“wolf victory”) in the genitive case Wulfsiġes + lēah (“wood, clearing”).

A former make of British motorcar, last produced in 1975.


aerospace plane

aerospace plane (plural aerospace planes)

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rocker panel

The part of the side of a car below the doors.


guarda costa

[…] I vvas attacked by one of thoſe curſed Guarda-Coſtas, vvho took our Ships before the Beginning of the VVar; […]

1742, Henry Fielding, “A Dialogue between Mr. Abraham Adams and His Host, […]”, in The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book II, page 301:

While we were employed in this manner, our vessel went northward to Black River to trade. While she was there, a Spanish guarda costa met with and took her.

1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 11, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:

(nautical, historical) A Spanish vessel used to protect the coast.


EAPC

Initialism of electrically assisted pedal cycle.


Lancia

An Italian manufacturer of cars; named for founder Vincenzo Lancia.


black car

(London) a black cab, a taxi that is only hailed from the street


Alfa

(automotive, informal) A car made by Alfa Romeo.


bugeye

(nautical) A sailboat once used for oystering out of Chesapeake Bay


cottonclad

(nautical) A wooden warship, of the Confederate States during the American Civil War, that used bales of cotton to protect it from enemy fire.


mulie

(nautical) A barge rigged with a spritsail main, and a large gaff rigged mizzen afore the steering wheel


skaffie

(nautical) A small Scottish fishing boat that was used in the Moray Firth region


Lanchester

A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1647).


crab dolly

In reference to the sideways motion of a crab.

(film) A camera dolly whose front wheels steer in the same direction as the rear wheels.


rough rider

because you are full of old festered wounds, you must have corrosive salves, for that is best for you, and the speediest way to recover your health: and forasmuch as you be rough horses, you must have a rough rider, and hard knobby timber must have hard wedges, and hard strokes with a beetle ["mallet"].

a. 1607, Arthur Dent, A Sermon of Repentaunce. A verie godly and profitable sermon, preached at Lee in Essex. B.L., Thomas Snodham for Roger Jackson, published 1615:

Our best rough-rider had mounted him, with a view of thoroughly "taking it out of him," and I never witnessed a better display of horsemanship.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 77:

A person whose specialty is the breaking in or training of wild horses.


shrimp boat

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A marker placed beside a blip on the radar screen, used by air traffic control to indicate a specific aircraft.


passion wagon

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(slang) Synonym of fuckmobile (“a vehicle used for sexual intercourse”)


semi-dreadnought

A type of advanced pre-dreadnought battleship from the very early 20th century, carrying a main armament composed entirely of big guns of different calibers (typically having four guns of the largest caliber, plus a larger number of smaller big guns). It was superior to earlier pre-dreadnoughts, but still not as powerful as the dreadnought introduced in 1906.


armored cruiser

armored cruiser (plural armored cruisers)

(military) A type of cruiser (the warship) common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, carrying a small number of moderately-heavy main guns plus a large secondary battery of smaller guns and with armor protecting the sides and upper and lower decks, but lighter and with thinner armor and less powerful guns than a battleship; a mainstay of battle fleets around the turn of the 20th century, but displaced from this role by the more powerful battlecruiser after ca. 1908, becoming obsolescent by the time of WWI.


protected cruiser

protected cruiser (plural protected cruisers)

(military, nautical) A type of cruiser (the warship) carrying moderately-heavy main guns (although considerably lighter than those of a battleship) in armored turrets or other enclosures and having the machinery and magazine spaces protected by an armored lower deck, but leaving the sides of the ship unarmored (relying on the ship's coal bunkers to absorb hits to the sides of the hull) to save weight and allow for a high speed and long range; common in the late 19th century, but rendered obsolescent by the armored cruiser around 1900 as technological advances reduced the weight penalty of a side-mounted armor belt and made warships lacking belt armor increasingly vulnerable to enemy gunfire.


deck boat

We were to spend some days by the outermost skerries. We had the deck-boat, and its crew consisted of Rasmus Olsen this was the name of my old friend the pilot's boy, and myself.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:

A shallow boat designed to maximise deck space.


halibuter

(fishing) A fishing boat used for catching halibut.


trash truck

Trash truck coming up the road
Picking up the trash

2000, Mark O. Everett (lyrics and music), “Wooden Nickels”, in Daisies of the Galaxy, performed by Eels:


International Space Station

the International Space Station (canonical)

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An artificial satellite in low-earth orbit operating by a number of cooperating space programs.


Buick

The surname is a variant of Bewick, the brand is named after Scottish-American inventor David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929).


Aldrin cycler

From Aldrin + cycler. After Buzz Aldrin, who developed the concept and its mathematical basis. From being a cycler, a space vehicle which cycles between intercepts of two celestial bodies in their own orbits, with little or no orbital adjustments needed, on as close to pure ballistics as practicable.

(astronautics) A spacecraft which cycles between Earth and Mars, in its own orbit which intercepts both their orbits at times when the planets are at those points in their orbits; which allows transport from Earth to Mars, or vice versa.


wire wheel

If they hadn't been payin' him all them millions for pitcher plays, he could of got a job in a wire wheel.

1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:

A wheel having a central hub connected to the rim by wire spokes, formerly in common use on automobiles.


turtle ship

(historical) A Korean armored warship with iron spikes on its deck, chiefly known for being used in the Imjin War (1592—1598) against the Japanese by Admiral Yi Sun-sin.


e-taxi

A vehicle operating as part of an e-hail service.


serial-killer van

en-noun

serial-killer van (plural serial-killer vans)


mechanical horse

mechanical horse (plural mechanical horses)

Three views showing various units of the G.W.R. fleet of mechanical horses engaged in the delivery in London of what are termed officially "galvanised corrugated steel shelters." The G.W.R. effected its deliveries from the Paddington and South Lambeth depots

1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 312, photo caption:

But the horse has left his mark, for his successor is a mechanical horse designed to a large extent to copy the leading characteristics of the live horse; easy attachment to or detachment from its load, a small turning circle, a small appetite for petrol, but giving a much higher acceleration and speed, and so capable of much greater distances, so that fewer cartage units are required.

1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:

A three-wheeled tractor unit which was usually coupled to a short semitrailer.


Dyson-Harrop satellite

Dyson-Harrop satellite (plural Dyson-Harrop satellites)

From Dyson + Harrop + satellite. Coined by Brooks Harrop in 2010. From Freeman Dyson, who proposed the Dyson sphere; and Brooks Harrop, who proposed this power satellite design as the basis of the elements of the Dyson swarm.

A type of power satellite that derives energy from stellar wind through betavoltaics, by capturing free electrons (beta particles) in the wind; instead of through sunlight and photovolatics.

en:Dyson-Harrop satellite
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power satellite

power satellite (plural power satellites)

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A type of artificial satellite that is a power station, which generates power that is beamed to consumers.


jump box

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An item of portable equipment for jump-starting a vehicle.


crash boat

(historical) A wooden speedboat used to rescue the crew of downed aircraft, chiefly in World War Two.


Splinter Fleet

(colloquial or historical) Collectively, the wooden boats used by the United States military, chiefly in World War Two.


E-boat

After the naming pattern used for the German boats (in this case German S-Boot), but using E for enemy.

(historical) Any German fast attack craft in World War Two.


Higgins boat

Named after American boat designer Andrew Higgins.

named-after

(historical) A type of shallow-draft boat used in amphibious landings, chiefly in World War Two.


supermodified

(motor racing) A class of racecar used in supermodified racing


WEC

(motor racing, motorcycling) Initialism of World Enduro Championship.


Karrier

A former make of commercial vehicle manufactured in England, which included lorries, buses and trolleybuses.


forecar

Coordinate term: sidecar

(historical) A one-wheeled attachment to the front of a motorcycle to allow for a separate seat for a passenger or cargo space.


coach-built

(of a vehicle) Having specially built bodywork, built to order.


mancheel

From Malayalam, from Sanskrit or from Classical Persian مَنْزِل (manzil), from Arabic مَنْزِل (manzil, “house; inn; stage of a journey, day's travel”).

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A Muncheel is a kind of litter, resembling a sea-cot, or hammock, hung to a long pole, with a moveable covering over the whole, to keep off the sun or rain. Six men will run with one from one end of the Malabar coast to the other, while twelve are necessary for the lightest palanquin.

1830, James Welsh, Military Reminiscences, volume II, page 142:

The muncheel or manjeel..., also written munsheel and munchil, from the Malayālam manjīl, manjāl, mañchīl, mañchāl and Sanskrit maṇcha, is the name given to a kind of hammock-litter used on the south-west coast of India... It is shaded by a cover, which in some cases is held up by a frame of bent canes.

2002, Norman Mosley Penzer, Poison Damsels, page 231:

(India, chiefly historical) A covered hammock litter developed in southwest India.


kappal

(historical) A ship, especially a square-rigged vessel with top and top-gallant masts.


calaluz

(obsolete) A swift rowing boat used in the Indian Archipelago.


curiara

Borrowed from Spanish curiara, itself borrowed from a Cariban language; compare Kari'na kurijara, Ye'kwana kudiyada.

a dugout canoe used by indigenous people in South America


G-ride

Casper's crews accounted for dozens of such carjackings; at times he'd have a virtual motor pool of stolen G-rides stashed in alleys and apartment building parking lots. But sometimes Casper showed more restraint — and even some real ...

2004, Gordon Dillow, William J. Rehder, Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 129:

This was a getaway bucket with style, maybe a G-ride, a gangster ride, stolen out of a driveway in Beverly Hills, and behind the wheel sat the shooter's ace kool, his backup homey, ready to shave the tires bald in a pedal-jammed escape.

2009, Dean Ray Koontz, The Face, Bantam, →ISBN, page 163:

They were in a G-ride (a stolen car) and weren't trying to get knocked by The Rollers before they carried out their assignment. Keep thinking I'm candy 'til your fucking skull get popped/ and your brain jump out the top like Jack in the ...

2018, Tranay Adams, Me and My Hittas 5, Tranay Adams:


gangster ride

... so he'd avoid being pulled over by cops ; another cold car driven by a getaway driver would follow , with the three robbers bringing up the rear in a “gangster ride” or “G-ride,” a recently stolen or carjacked vehicle.

2004, William J. Rehder, Gordon Dillow, Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 122:

This was a getaway bucket with style, maybe a G-ride, a gangster ride, stolen out of a driveway in Beverly Hills, and behind the wheel sat the shooter's ace kool, his backup homey, ready to shave the tires bald in a pedal-jammed escape..

(slang) A stolen car, especially if stolen by gang members.


float tube

A small, lightweight inflatable fishing craft.


radio car

Daniels: Can I get you out of a radio car? ... I'm short two men in ops and my follow-up squad couldn't make a case to save its life. You're too damned good to be humpin' calls.

2006 Sept. 10, David Simon & al., "Boys of Summer", The Wire, 00:23:10

(US law enforcement slang) Synonym of police car.


LWB

Coordinate term: SWB

The cards require interpretation, and the interpretations offered by the LWBs, traditional or not, are ultimately only scaffolding on which to hang your own intuition, which is something you acquire over a period of time and with much trial and error.

2008, Paul Huson, “The Arcane Roots of Tarot”, in The Witches' Almanac, number 27, page 13:

The goal is not to memorize the cards in the LWB, but to develop a relationship with the cards.

2013, Patrick Dunn, Cartomancy with the Lenormand and the Tarot: Create Meaning and Gain Insight from the Cards, page 62:

Looking back, I think that learning by the LWB was a great way to start.

2023, Julia Gordon-Bramer, Tarot Life Lessons: Living Wisdom from the Major Arcana:

(tarot) Little white book; a type of small instructional guide included with mass-market tarot decks.


LWB

Coordinate term: SWB


skip lorry

(British) A commercial vehicle, fitted with a hydraulic hoist, which delivers skips (for rubble, waste and general rubbish) to customers, and collects them once they have been filled for emptying at a landfill site.