whaleboat

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Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

A long narrow rowing boat, formerly used in whaling, which is pointed at both ends so that it can move either forwards or backwards equally well.


biga

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


mackinaw

en-noun

mackinaw (countable and uncountable, plural mackinaws)

Respelling of Mackinac, a strait between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, an island in the strait, and an important trading-post on the island; ultimately from Ojibwe mishinii-makinaang (“at the place of many snapping turtles”).

uder

A flat-bottomed cargo boat; mackinaw boat.


mackinaw skiff

A cargo boat, with a large flat bottom and sharp ends, formerly used on the Great Lakes and the Missouri River (to a lesser extent, elsewhere).


wrecker

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

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

desballestador

home wrecker / marriage wrecker / party wrecker

A mooncusser (type of land-based pirate).

(Soviet Union, crime, historical) Someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking; that is, of undermining the state in intangible ways.

Soviet Union; crime; Soviet Union; crime


hydrogen vehicle

en-noun

hydrogen vehicle (plural hydrogen vehicles)

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

سَيَّارَة هِيدْرُوجِينِيَّة

any vehicle that uses hydrogen as its principal fuel

veículo a hidrogénio/hidrogênio (movido)


motocross

motocross (usually uncountable, plural motocrosses)

From French, a macaronic blend of moto, from motocyclette (“motorcycle”) and English cross-country. May be decomposed as moto- + -cross.

(sports, motorcycling) A form of off-road motorbike racing.

(sports, motorcycling) An event where such racing takes place.


bakkie

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

der

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


school bus

en-noun

school bus (plural school buses or school busses)

school buses (plural)
school busses (plural)

A bus which carries children to or from school.


motor vehicle

means of transportation
means of transportation

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


donorcycle

Blend of donor + motorcycle; see organ donor. The term apparently originates from emergency room personnel who often see motorcycle accident victims. It alludes to the high percentage of donated organs that come from motorcyclists.

The donorcycles rev and nudge forward, the traffic-crossing man is red, I get an angry blast from a bus, but I leap to the far bank without bouncing off a bonnet.

2008 [2001], David Mitchell, number9dream, Hachette, →ISBN:

(derogatory, uncommon) A motorcycle ridden by someone who is likely to die due to either recklessness or the inherent risk of riding a motorcycle.


baby carriage

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


barouche

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


knorr

the largest knorr in Halogaland was loaded at Sandnes this spring and Thorolf was said to be sole owner of all the cargo on board.

1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 29:

Alternative form of knarr (“large merchant ship used in mediaeval Scandinavia”)


rice burner

(slang, ethnic slur, humorous) A person who drives such an automobile.


rice rocket

So called because rice is a staple food in Japan, and rockets are known for their high speed.

(slang, ethnic slur, humorous) A Japanese high-performance sport motorcycle or street-racing car.


crotch rocket

(slang, humorous) A high-performance motorcycle, especially sport bikes.


stage-coach

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

дилижа́нс

horse-drawn coach to transport passengers and mail


cherry picker

Earlier police used a cherry picker to clear protesters perched on a wooden structure built to block the road at Oxford Circus.

2019 October 18, “Extinction Rebellion: Central London targeted despite ban”, in BBC News:

A piece of equipment consisting of a large basket at the end of an extensible boom, often mounted on a truck body, and used by workers to reach inaccessible places such as power lines and tall trees.

A cantilevered tool for installing or removing a vehicle's engine block.

A person or group that picks the best for themselves; one who cherry-picks.

Two conclusions stand out: The Bible is a cherry-picker's paradise, and human beings cannot function without double standards.

2006, Manfred Weidhorn, An Anatomy of Skepticism, →ISBN, page 218:

A person or group that picks only evidence which supports an argument and ignores evidence which contradicts it; one who cherry-picks.


caravel

From Middle French caravelle, from Old French caruelle, carvelle (“caravel”), from Old Galician-Portuguese caravela (“caravel”), a diminutive of caravo, carabo (“type of small vessel”), from Late Latin carabus (“small wicker boat decked with hide”), from Ancient Greek κᾱ́ρᾰβος (kā́răbos, “type of light ship; kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish”).

refn

From the collection of the Musée national de la Marine in Paris, France.

der

When Gullion di'd (who knows not Gullion?) / And his drie soule arriu'd at Acheron, / He faire besought the feryman of hell, / That he might drink to dead Pantagruel. / […] Yet still he drinkes, nor can the Botemans cries, / Nor crabbed oares, nor prayers make him rise. / So long he drinkes, till the black Carauell / Stands still fast grauel'd on the mud of hell.

1597, Joseph Hall, “Sat[ire] VI”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. […], London: Printed by Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC; republished as Virgidemiarum: Satires, … In Six Books, London: William Pickering, […], 1825, →OCLC, book III, page 41, lines 1–4 and 11–14:

We also barter'd all the Goods that were in the firſt Spaniſh Caravel, taken at our firſt ſetting out for other Commodities, and left all the Priſoners. A Caravel ſays Oforius lib. 2 is a Veſſel that has no round Top, nor any Timber acroſs the Top of the Maſt, but the Yard is made faſt a little below the Top. The Sails are triangular, and their lower Points are but little above the Deck.

1711, Francis Cauche, “A Voyage to Madagascar, the Adjacent Islands, and Coast of Africk”, in [J. Stevens], editor, A New Collection of Voyages and Travels, into Several Parts of the World, […], volume II, London: Printed for J. Knapton, Andrew Bell, D. Midwinter, Will. Taylor, A. Collins, and J. Baker, →OCLC, page 3:

On the Ninth of May, in the Year one Thouſand, five Hundred, and Two, [Christopher] Columbus and his Brother departed, from Spain, on their laſt Voyage of Diſcovery, with four Caravelles, and one hundred, and ſeventy Men.

1776, [John Campbell], John Kent, “Memoirs of Christopher Columbus”, in Biographia Nautica; Or, Memoirs of Those Illustrious Seamen, to whose Intrepidity and Conduct the English are Indebted, […] In Four Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for J. Wallis and C. Stonehouse, […], →OCLC, page 433:

At preſent theſe trees are not very numerous, as the Turks make uſe of them to build the Grand Signior's caravelles, and cut down without ever planting.

1788, [Claude-Étienne] Savary, “Letter XIII. To M. L. M.”, in Letters on Greece; being a Sequel to Letters on Egypt, […] Translated from the French …, London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 98:

[T]he governor of Hiſpaniola was afraid that if the admiral returned to Spain, Their Catholic Majeſties would reſtore him to his government, and ſo he ſhould be forced to quit it; for which reaſon he would not provide, as he might have done, for the admiral's voyage to Hiſpaniola; and therefore had ſent that little caraval to ſpy and obſerve the condition the admiral was in, and to know whether he could contrive with ſafety to have him deſtroyed, […]

1812, John Pinkerton, “Of Another Mutiny among Those that Remained with the Admiral, which was Quelled by the Coming of a Vessel from Hispaniola”, in A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World; […], volume XII, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Cadell and Davies, […], →OCLC, page 150:

Probably the most famous of all the forms of craft used at this period was the caravel, so well adapted for voyages of discovery, that nearly every one of the great navigators employed ships of this character, and in them performed feats of seamanship which are absolutely astounding. […] Narrow at the poop, wide at the prow, having a double tower at the stern and a single one at its bows, the caravel carried four vertical masts, and one inclined one.

1874 December 19, “Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance. By Paul Lacroix (Bibliophile Jacob.) Illustrated. (Chapman & Hall.) [book review]”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama, number 2460, London: Printed by Edward J. Francis, […] published […] by John Francis. …, →OCLC, page 835, column 3:

Fishermen and other mariners who used caravels along the Atlantic coast of Portugal and the Cantabrian coast of Spain probably strengthened the hull to withstand the open ocean, perhaps using small whaling vessels as their model. As the Portuguese explored the coastline of Africa, they used small caravels with a two-masted lateen rig for many tasks, especially after they rounded Cape Bojador. The lateen caravel could beat its way home while keeping within reassuring sight of the coast.

1992, William D. Phillips, Jr., Carla Rahn Phillips, “Tools of Expansion”, in The Worlds of Christopher Columbus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 71:

Thus the brand-new caravel which took [Alvise] Cadamosto to Senegambia in 1455 was a vessel of some fifty-four tons capacity.

2001, Peter Edward Russell, Prince Henry ‘the Navigator’: A Life (Yale Nota Bene), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 229:

[T]he voyages of exploration made use of a new vessel, the caravel. Caravels were much smaller than the largest European ships and the Chinese junks Zheng He had used to explore the Indian Ocean early in the fifteenth century.

2008, Richard W. Bulliet, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Daniel R. Headrick, Steven W. Hirsch, Lyman L. Johnson, with David Northrup, “The Maritime Revolution, to 1550”, in The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, 4th edition, volume 1 (To 1550), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, part 4 (Interregional Patterns of Culture and Contact, 1200–1550), page 468, column 2:

(nautical, historical) A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration.

karveel

light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel


clarence

Named after Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, later to become William IV of the United Kingdom.

A kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.


Plymouth

From Plym + mouth, referring to the river's mouth.

A small rural community of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

A small rural community of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

A number of places in the United States:

A small city in Amador County, California.

A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

Litchfield County
Litchfield County#English

Penobscot County
Penobscot County#English

A sizable city in Hennepin County, Minnesota; suburb of Minneapolis.

A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.

A borough of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

Box Elder County
Box Elder County#English

A small town in Windsor County, Vermont.


flatbed truck

(US) a truck with no sides, used to carry large, heavy objects


fust

Possibly from Portuguese fusta (“fust”), from Latin fusta (“beam (of wood)”), from fūstis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”); compare Middle French fuste.

The great hoste abode still till noone or one of the clocke, and then arose, not all, but about 80 or 100 ships, as gallies, galliasses, and fusts: and passed one after another before the towne and haven of Rhodes three miles off, and came to shore in a place nigh to land, called Perambolin, sixe miles from the towne.

1589–1600, Richard Hakluyt, “How Part of the Navie and Armie of the Great Turke Came before the Citie of Rhodes”, in The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation (Hakluyt Society; Works, Extra Series), volume V, Glasgow: MacLehose, published 1904, →OCLC; reprinted Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, →ISBN, page 16:

The reſt of our ſhips hearing us ſhoot in that manner, entered into their boats, and made towards them, rowing hard to the thre Indian fuſts, wherein were at the leaſt 100 men, and ſhot amongſt them with their pieces, […] and we handled them in ſuch ſort, that of 200 men there got not above thirty of them to land; the reſt of their fuſts lay far off and beheld the fight.

1745, “[A Brief Description of a Voyage Performed by Certain Hollanders to and from the East-Indies, with Their Adventures and Success.] The Manner, Custom, Householding, Child-bearing, Sporting and Cleanliness of the Women in Bantam”, in A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Consisting of Authentic Writers in Our Own Tongue, which have Not before Been Collected in English, or have Only been Abridged in Other Collections. …, volume II, London: Printed for and sold by Thomas Osborne of Gray's-Inn, →OCLC, page 414, column 1:

Sur stands on the coast of Syria, on the sea, twenty-five miles from Acre both by sea and land. Four or five large and long rocks lie in the sea before the city, some of them appearing a little above the water, the rest concealed below it. These rocks form the port of Sur, which admits ships of sixty or eighty tons, but none of a larger size; and all flat-bottomed fusts.

1827, Gilbert de Lannoy [i.e., Guillebert de Lannoy], “The Report Made by Sir Gilbert de Lannoy, upon Surveys of Several Cities, Ports, and Rivers, Taken by Him in Egypt and Syria, in the Year of Grace of Our Lord One Thousand Four Hundred and Twenty-two. By Order of the Most High, Most Puissant, and Most Excellent Prince, King Henry of England, Heir and Regent of France; whom God Pardon”, in Archaeologia; or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity. Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, volume XXI, London: Printed by J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols, 25, Parliament Street; sold at the Society [of Antiquaries of London]'s apartments in in Somerset-Place; and by Messrs. Nornaville and Fell, Nicol, Sotheby, Wilson, Cadell, Egerton, and Taylor, →OCLC, pages 427–428:

During the first three decades of the seventeenth century, Portuguese trade from Goa to Portugal and to Gurajat rapidly declined. Pieter van den Broecke, a VOC [Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie – Dutch East India Company] official in Gujarat, reported that whereas there used to come every year from 200 to 300 Portuguese fusts (or fustas, small galleys) to Cambay and Surat, only from 50 to 60 came in 1621, and the goods they carried were also of small value. [Francisco] Pelsaert, too, lamented the declining trade of Cambay by saying that in 1626 only forty merchant fusts arrived with goods of little value and that this was the cause of the decline of Cambay and indeed of all Gujarat.

2016, Ghulam A. Nadri, “The Indigo Trade: Local and Global Demand”, in The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580–1930: A Global Perspective (European Expansion and Indigenous Response; 22), Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 99:

(nautical, historical) A type of small galley.


penny farthing

A reference to the old British coins and the relative sizes of the two wheels.

A type of bicycle popular in the 19th century, with the front wheel far larger than the rear one.


distributor

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

A device that distributes electric current, especially to the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.

bijíí

device that distributes current to the spark plugs


paquebot

Borrowed from French paquebot (“mailboat”). First used in Great Britain in 1894, the term was adopted for general use by the Universal Postal Union in 1897.

(postal history) a postal marking or cancellation stamped on mail posted at sea or in a harbour for processing by the postal authorities at the next port of call. Mail so marked in one country will often carry the stamps of another country.


bottler

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

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


Bedford

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

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

coin

Westchester County
Westchester County#English


exhaust pipe

أشطمان

pipe that vents waste gases from the engine

For internal combustion engines, any of several pipes, connected in series, that carry waste gases away from the engine and vent it to the air.


pedalo

Borrowed from French pédalo, a registered trademark. By surface analysis, pedal + -o.

It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139:

On the other hand: I’m sorry the sculpture hurt your feelings. But it’s just art. It can’t harm you. You don’t have to like it – not at all – but it’s going to be gone in a month or so, and you can still use the pedalos while it’s there.

2018 August 16, Marina Hyde, “Sorry to break it to you, far-righters: James Bond is not on your team”, in The Guardian:

(UK, nautical) A small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles, used for recreation.


tachometer

A device for measuring the revolutions per minute (RPMs) of a revolving shaft, as with the driveshaft of an automobile.


equipage

en-noun

equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)

From Middle French equippage, from equipper. The "carriage" sense may be influenced by Latin equus (“horse”).

At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.

1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 199:

For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to England.”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 306–307:

Miserable and desponding he returned to his home; while Oriana, in again taking leave of her family, was borne back in her aunt's equipage to the splendours of the Park.

1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 302:

The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.

Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour, etc.


Gladstone

Any of places of the same name.
A city in Clackamas County, Oregon.

Clackamas County
Clackamas County#English


jetboat

A boat propelled by a strong jet of water ejected from the back of the craft.


outrigger canoe

outrigger canoe (plural outrigger canoes)

A seagoing canoe having one or more lateral support floats to provide stability.


peniche

Peniche (fluid dynamics)
Péniche (barge)

(fluid dynamics) Material inserted between a half-model, often of an airplane, and the wall of a wind tunnel.


water taxi

(nautical) A small boat that can transport small groups of passengers for a fee.

taxibåd

boat that will transport small groups of passengers for a fee


horsebox

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

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

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


watercraft

watercraft (countable and uncountable, plural watercrafts or watercraft)

watercrafts (plural)
watercraft (plural)

(countable and uncountable) Any vessel with implements designed to move it in arbitrary direction through one or various bodies of water: a boat, ship, sea scooter, or similar vehicle.


carrack

From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).

They [the English] are all on fire / To purchaſe from the Spaniard. If their Carracks / Come deeply laden, vvee ſhall tugge vvith them / For golden ſpoile.

c. 1597–1603 (date written), Thomas Heywood, The Fair Maid of the West. Or, A Girle Worth Gold. The First Part. […], London: […] [Miles Flesher] for Richard Royston, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carrack; if it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

The name of the ship was Dawn Treader. She was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the cogs, dromonds, carracks and galleons which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there under Peter as the High King, for nearly all navigation had died out in the reigns of Caspian's ancestors.

1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:

Thereafter huge sailing carracks brought Indian pepper and cotton, Indonesian perfume and spice, Chinese silk and porcelain, to the royal trading house at Lisbon.

2018, David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal:

(historical) A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.


fireboat

A harbor boat designed for pumping large volumes of harbor water onto dockside fires.

Löschboot

1. A harbor boat designed for pumping large volumes of harbor water onto dockside fires


steamship

Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.

1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264:

A ship or vessel propelled by steam power.


steamboat

steamboat (countable and uncountable, plural steamboats)

→ Dutch: stoomboot (calque)

→ Ottoman Turkish: استمبوط (istimbot)

By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.

1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi:

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

(uncountable, Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).


steamboat

en-verb

steamboat (third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated)

steamboats (present singular third-person)
steamboating (participle present)
steamboated (participle past)
steamboated (past)


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

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


articulated lorry

en-noun

articulated lorry (plural articulated lorries)


Winnebago

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

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

Faribault County
Faribault County#English


four-wheeler

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

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 22, in Dracula:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Humber

From Middle English Humber, from Old English Humbre.

Ford and Stoke Prior
Ford and Stoke Prior

A hamlet and civil parish (served by Humber, Ford and Stoke Prior Parish Council) south-east of Leominster, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5356).


argosy

Alteration of Italian ragusea (“a large ship”), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik.


passenger car

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


multichine

(nautical) (of a hull) having multiple chines


economy car

He was so fed up with high gas prices that he traded in his full-sized sport utility vehicle for an economy car.

A car, usually small and lightweight, designed for low-cost operation.


Mayflower

A historical ship that transported the Pilgrims to America in the year 1620.


Harley

From Old English hær (“rock”) or hara (“hare”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hare + -ley (“lea”).

A village and civil parish (served by Cressage, Harley and Sheinton Parish Council) in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5901).

A settlement in Wentworth parish, Rotherham borough, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3698).

A township in Timiskaming District, north-east Ontario, Canada.

A habitational surname from Old English from the place names.


proa

From Malay perau, a variant of perahu. In some forms via Portuguese parão or Dutch prauw; in some forms assimilated to prow.

1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
I noticed that on the sea were numerous fantastically shaped canoes—or rather boats—like Malay proas, or the canoes used by many of the South Sea islanders.

Malay ‘prahu’ or proa were said to be more than a match for British vessels.

2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 231:

A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail.


Model T

This institution is no Model T.

1920, Forrest Edwin Long, Philip Westcot Lawrence Cox, The Clearing House, page 558:

In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole.

1923, Henry Robinson Luce, Briton Hadden, editors, Time:

Jerked my thumb at a Model T, So-and-so wouldn't stop for me.

1924, Southern Methodist University, Southwest Review, page 356:

I can find no internal evidence that the journey was not made in the back seat of a Model T with the curtains drawn—except that the style is painfully pedestrian.

1928, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, The New England Quarterly, Northeastern University, page 543:

... whenever they learned that a lynching was brewing they went by buggy, train, or Model T straight to the sheriff of the county and stayed with him until he did something about it.

1929, William Theodore Evjue, The Progressive:

"Is a guy sore if the Model T he got for twenty bucks don't run after he's run it five year? Forget it Johnny, profit and loss."

1931, Whit Burnett, Martha Foley, Story Magazine:

You can get about as much from a Model-T/Stripped and forgotten in a sage arroyo/As you can from asking the blue peaks over and over: "Will something old come back again tonight?"

1934, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Westering, page 89:

All of a sudden, as Martin covered the countryside in his Model T, he began to notice strange sights...

1955, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, De Witt Wallace, editors, The Reader's Digest, page 40:

Carts was on his way to the governor's mansion, touring the rural back country in his Model T, sounding the warning against the encroachments of Satan.

1965, David Mark Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965, page 225:

When Senator Oscar Underwood announced his intention to retire in 1926, Black decided to run for Senate. He simply took off on his own, covering the back country alone in his Model-T, speaking anywhere he could find listeners and staying with anyone who would put up with him.

1999, James Stuart Olson, Historical Dictionary of the 1960s, page 59:

Charles Odell Lovette, the patriarch of the family that was to build North Carolina-based Holly Farms into one of the largest poultry companies in the world, began in the mid-1920s by gathering country produce in his Model T and hauling it to city markets.

2005, Steve Striffler, Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food, page 40:

The first car made by the Ford Motor Company on an assembly line. Before the Model T, cars were made painstakingly by hand.

T-Ford

first car made by Ford Motor Co. on an assembly line


cod-banger

(obsolete, nautical) A 19th century vessel used to fish for cod using codlines


container ship

Coordinate term: TEU

(nautical) A cargo vessel designed to carry cargo prepacked into containers, especially shipping containers.


cargo vessel

(nautical) Any vessel designed to carry cargo.


bulk carrier

Otherwise, overseas coking coal will be moved to the UK by bulk ocean carrier, which are among the filthiest polluting objects on the face of the Earth we seek to protect.

2022 November 16, Nigel Harris, “Endless news... little context”, in RAIL, number 970, page 3:

(nautical) Any ocean-going cargo vessel (merchant ship) designed to carry unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, steel coils and cement, in its holds.


coracle

Of Celtic origin; related to Welsh corwg, Irish curach (“boat”) and Cornish gorhel (“ship”), from Proto-Celtic *kurukos (“boat”).

The White Hart, overlooking the bridge, has a bar named after the coracles that may still be seen on this part of the Teifi.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 110:

(nautical) A small circular or oblong boat made of wickerwork and made watertight with hides or pitch, propelled and steered with a single paddle and light enough to be carried on a person's back.


merchant ship

Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.

2021 February 9, “There are those outstanding final moments in real-life hostage drama Captain Phillips (2013), about the hijacking of a US merchant ship by Somali pirates, in which his traumatised mariner is moved to near-hysteria by his ordeal”, in BBC:


sports car

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


fairing

From fair (“community gathering, market”). In the sense of food, because cakes and sweets were sold at fairs.

(now rare) A present, especially given by a lover.

(Scotland, Ireland, now rare) Something that is deserved; one's deserts.

[…] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.

1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part I, Chapter 2:

A type of small gingerbread biscuit; a ginger nut.


fairing

From fair (“to smoothen or even a surface”).

The fairing over the driving motion of this engine, and of the 4-6-2s, was removed subsequently, to give greater accessibility to the working parts.

1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 660:

A covering on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that streamlines it (i.e., produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag).


speedometer

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From speed + -o- + -meter; by surface analysis, speed + -ometer.

Although it might be thought that drivers would naturally refer constantly to the speedometer, older drivers who come to diesel driving after years of steam experience without the help of speedometers, as well as those on steam engines which have been equipped with speedometers in recent years, have not accustomed themselves to the constant use of this instrument.

1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Derailment at Lincoln”, in Modern Railways, page 375:

An instrument located within the dashboard of a vehicle that measures and indicates the current speed of the vehicle.


hubcap

A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel.


wherry

en-verb

wherry (third-person singular simple present wherries, present participle wherrying, simple past and past participle wherried)

wherries (present singular third-person)
wherrying (participle present)
wherried (participle past)
wherried (past)

From Middle English whery (“small boat”), of obscure origin but cognate to French houari and Breton ouari, as well as Welsh chweri (“small boat”).

unk

obscure


stroller

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


space capsule

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A vehicle (or a compartment of a vehicle) designed to transport, and provide life support for people in space, and during reentry through the Earth's atmosphere

càpsula espacial

vehicle or compartment designed to transport people in space and during reentry


space probe

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(space science) A robotic space vehicle designed to voyage beyond Earth's orbit.

espazio-zunda

unmanned space vehicle designed to voyage beyond Earth's orbit


space vehicle

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space satellite

en-noun

space satellite (plural space satellites)

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A crewed or robotic spacecraft designed to orbit the Earth, or another celestial body


cowan

cowan (plural cowans or (obsolete) cowanis)

cowans (plural)
cowanis (obsolete plural)

(in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.


blucher

Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.

He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 13:


liveaboard

“We′re going to move aboard, sail around the world and do some writing,” the letter goes. “How are our chances?” It′s a common question from readers who know that my husband and I support our liveaboard life through writing and photography.

1975, From Tiller to Typwriter: The Rudder, volume 91, page 227:

This marina is the closest to the ocean and has a surprisingly liberal liveaboard policy (10 percent of the total population; children, pets, okay).

Pat and Kelly′s was the haven for the liveaboard community and had acquired a legendary reputation for a salty ambiance involving a couple of parrots, a raccoon, dogs and independent liveaboards who had little time for established governments.

2000, David Schaefer, Sailing to Hemingway′s Cuba, page 40:

2008, Zoe Simpson, A Matter of Degree, Fossil-Imprints, UK, page 132,
‘None of the boats around you have liveaboards, do they?’ put in Mum.


snowmobile

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

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

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

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

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


Subaru

en-proper noun

Subaru (countable and uncountable, plural Subarus)

A male or female given name from Japanese.

(ethnoastronomy) A Japanese traditional constellation, equivalent of the Western asterism the Pleiades (“the Seven Sisters”) (an open cluster)


iceboat

An icebreaker; a ship that breaks through ice.


iceboat

en-verb

iceboat (third-person singular simple present iceboats, present participle iceboating, simple past and past participle iceboated)

iceboats (present singular third-person)
iceboating (participle present)
iceboated (participle past)
iceboated (past)


struse

Borrowed from Russian струг (strug), an old Russian wooden river boat.

A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.


wiper

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

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

Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.


pedicab

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

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

A tricycle having a hooded cab to seat paying passengers.


jeep

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

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


RM

en-noun

RM (countable and uncountable, plural RMs)

regional municipality
regional municipality#English


shopper

→ Urdu: شاپر (śāpar)


Galway hooker

A type of fishing boat in the west of Ireland with a distinctive black hull and red sails.


rowboat

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(US) A small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing).


bungo

Borrowed from Spanish bongo (“large canoe”).

bor+

On the third day a bungo passed us, coming down the river from New Grenada, with a cargo and passengers to Santa Martha and the parts adjacent

1828, an officer of the Colombian Navy, Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-Extermination:

He and a number of others bought a bungo (a large canoe), and in it actually started for San Francisco, a distance of more than three thousand miles. The party chose for leader one Chris. Lilly, a pugilist, […]

2005, William Harwar Parker, Recollections of a Confederate Naval Officer, Digital Antiquaria, →ISBN, page 159:

A kind of large canoe used in the southern United States, Central America, and South America.


Norton

en-proper noun

Norton (countable and uncountable, plural Nortons)

From Old English norþ (“north”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
The parish in New Brunswick is named after Norton, Massachusetts.

Any of many placenames from words meaning north and enclosure.

A suburban area in Stockton-on-Tees borough, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ4422).

A village in Norton-juxta-Kempsey parish, Wychavon district, Worcestershire, the location of Norton Barracks (OS grid ref SO8751).

A civil parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.

A city, the county seat of Norton County, Kansas, United States.


Norton

Norton
Norton (motorcycle)
W. W. Norton & Company

A motorcycle from the Norton Motorcycle Company, a British manufacturer.


Talbot

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

Menominee County
Menominee County#English

An unincorporated community in Menominee County, Michigan, United States.


dune buggy

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


damelopre

(nautical) A Dutch sailing barge having a mast that can be lowered for passing under a bridge


steam shovel

(historical) An excavating machine designed to effect a shovelling action through steam power.

蒸汽挖掘機 /蒸汽挖掘机

(by extension) Any excavating machine of similar design, no matter how powered.


steam shovel

en-verb

steam shovel (third-person singular simple present steam shovels, present participle steam shovelling or (US) steam shoveling, simple past and past participle steam shovelled or (US) steam shoveled)

steam shovels (present singular third-person)
steam shovelling (participle present)
steam shoveling (US participle present)
steam shovelled (participle past)
steam shovelled (past)
steam shoveled (US participle past)
steam shoveled (US past)

At Lahontan the teams were engaged on the earthwork of the dike with the adjoining Lahontan Beach canal south of the dam. Paving of the up-stream slope of the dam was carried out by night shift in steam shoveling rock at the quarry and delivering by cars and cableway to the dam, where paving was placed by day shift and nearly completed to the present top of the dam at the end of the month.

1914 February, “Construction Work, January”, in Reclamation Record, volume 5, number 2, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Reclamation Service, →OCLC, page 66, column 2:

[H]ere in America there are mountains of oil rock which can be blasted and steam-shoveled and transported by gravity to great retorts which will turn out oil and fertilizer in limitless quantities.

1918 February, Guy Elliott Mitchell, “Billions of Barrels of Oil Locked up in Rocks”, in Gilbert H[ovey] Grosvenor, editor, National Geographic, volume XXXIII, number 2, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 205, column 2:

Considerable copper ore, steam-shoveled from Sacramento Hill and piled at Bisbee, was of smelting and milling grade, and some of it was put on the dump for heap leaching.

1922 November 28, V. C. Heikes, “Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc in Arizona”, in Mineral Resources of the United States 1921, part I (Metals), Washington, D.C.: [United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior]; Government Printing Office, published 1924, →OCLC, page 321:

I do know that some of the most influential people in the oil-mining industry have made some investigations with a view of steam shoveling certain areas, and that they found conditions were such, with the beds of barren material lying between the high-grade product, that they could not steam shovel it, […]

1931 February 17, Mark L. Requa, quotee, “Statement of Harold Walker, Representing the Pan American Petrolum & Transport Co., New York City”, in Regulating Importation of Petroleum and Related Products: Hearings before the Committee of Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Seventy-first Congress, Third Session on H.R. 16585: A Bill to Regulate Commerce between the United States and Foreign Countries in Crude Petroleum and All Products of Petroleum, including Fuel Oil, and to Limit the Importation thereof, and for Other Purposes […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 297:

Approximately eighty-five percent of the iron mined in the United States in recent decades has come from the ore ranges adjoining the upper Lakes, and most of all from the fabulous Mesabi Range, some fifty miles northwest of Duluth, now steam-shovelled deep in what was recently a frontier wilderness of snow, lakes and northern forests, […]

1943 March 19, “Appendix DD: The War Shipping Panel [Opinion on Union Maintenance]”, in The Termination Report of the National War Labor Board: Industrial Disputes and Wage Stabilization in Wartime: January 12, 1942 – December 31, 1945, volume III (Appendixes to Volume I, Part II), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1947, →OCLC, page 234:

At first I was acutely aware of how close we were, but then—when Dan started steam-shoveling food into his mouth—I laughted and relaxed into the moment.

2008, Terri Clark, chapter 7, in Sleepless, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 95:

I'm steam-shoveling scrambled eggs and pancakes with syrup into my mouth next morning when Dad sits down with the newspaper.

2008, Coleen Murtagh Paratore, “Tucker, Jupey, and Stew”, in The Funeral Director’s Son, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 40:

Jesse imagined a group of Children back there steam shoveling the mashed corpses out of the way, an assembly line of the beasts passing the deat and wounded back toward the arena.

2019, Jonathan Janz, chapter 3, in Savage Species, London: Flame Tree Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Night Terrors):

(transitive) To excavate (a place, or something from a place) using a steam shovel.

kaivaa höyrykaivurilla

to excavate (a place, or something from a place) using a steam shovel

I have never had any experience with steam shoveling.

[1876 September 28, C. C. Martin (witness), “[Proceedings before the City Court of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York]”, in N.Y. Court of Appeals: William C. Kingsley & Abner C. Keeney, Appellants, against the City of Brooklyn, Respondent: Appeal Book, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Eagle Print, […], published 1879, page 883:

[I]n the tumultuous rootings of a potato field, in which hogs had long foraged and steam-shoveled, there were woodcock, squatting sedately and boring assiduously in the soft brown loam.

1920 June, Archibald Rutledge, “Twenty Feet at Rimini”, in Reginald T. Townsend, editor, Country Life, volume XXXVIII, number 2, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 92, column 3:

They're steam shoveling there with this great ugly nose plowing out a hole and throwing the dirt up on the bank or in trucks to haul away.

a. 1964 (date written), A[iden] W[ilson] Tozer, Worship: The Reason We Were Created—Collected Insights from A. W. Tozer, Chicago, Ill.: Moody Publishers, published 2017, →ISBN:

(intransitive) To operate a steam shovel.


gas guzzler

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


galleass

1540s, from Old French galleasse, from Italian galeaza ‘large galley’, from Latin galea.

The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spanish Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips and galeaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar, who is chronicled& regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer.

1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 5:

[T]he greateſt of their Galliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare of Callis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh.

1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 210, page 861:

(nautical, historical) A type of rowable vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to a galley but larger, and normally equipped with sails.


galliot

From French galiote, from Italian galeotta, diminutive of galea; see also galley, jolly boat.

Having seen the minutes of the proceedings on the capture of the galliot the Betsy of Washington, North Carolina, captain Reynold Brown, taken the 5th of this month by the French privateer le Poisson Volant (Flying Fish) captain Thomas de Haunot—[…].

1815, State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States: 1797, page 511:

The Holy See received 19 galleys and two galliots, Spain was given 58 galleys and six galliots, while the Venetian share was 39 galleys and four galliots.

1984, Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, page 1059:

The galliots averaged about three hundred tons, and their cargo of Japanese silver must have equaled that carried by the Santa Catarina—that is, in excess of 1 million cruzados' worth.

2007, James C. Boyajian, Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640, page 159:


excavator

A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.


lug nut

A strong nut used to attach a wheel to an axle of a motorcar.


Lamborghini

en:Ferruccio Lamborghini
en:Lamborghini
en:Lamborghini (disambiguation)

From Ferruccio Lamborghini, creator of Lamborghini.

An Italian motor car manufacturer, originating as a tractor company, now a subsidiary of Audi.


monster truck

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

com

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

怪獸卡車 /怪兽卡车

truck designed to perform in monster truck shows


ferryboat

→ Albanian: ferribot

→ Bulgarian: ферибот (feribot)

→ Greek: φέρι μποτ (féri bot)

→ Japanese: フェリーボート (ferībōto)

→ Macedonian: ферибот (feribot)

→ Portuguese: ferryboat

→ Romanian: feribot

desc

fèribot//фѐрибот

→ Serbo-Croatian: fèribot /фѐрибот

→ Sicilian: ferrubbottu

→ Turkish: feribot

/ˈfɛɹiˌbəʊt/

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He insists that it is practically undisputed that, when the ferryboat crossed the bow of the tug to make her slip, she crossed at a distance of at least 300 feet away

1893, James Wells Goodwin, Peyton Boyle, Robert Desty, The Federal reporter, volume 54, page 206:

The ferryboat "Argentina" rides toward Golden Gate, her ocean-going prow slicing the waves.

It was on this vessel that the founder of the second largest ferryboat company on Puget Sound...

1983, Mary Stiles Kline, George Albert Bayless, Ferryboats: a legend on Puget Sound, link:

(nautical) A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule


sin bin

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

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

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

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

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


gunboat

Knock knock. It's the United States. With huge boats (with guns); gunboats.

2016 February 2, Bill Wurtz, 4:45 from the start, in history of japan:

(nautical) Any of the various types of small armed vessels.


hermaphrodite brig

en-noun

hermaphrodite brig (plural hermaphrodite brigs)

So called because it is a hybrid of the two main types of sail plan.

About noon we saw a vessel on a wind to leeward of us, which was a source of great delight to us all, and we bore down to her. We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails.

1846, Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman:

(nautical) A two-masted sailing ship which has square sails on the foremast combined with a schooner rig on the mainmast (triangular topsail over a gaff mainsail).


Tirpitz

A German battleship during the Second World War, the sister ship to the Bismarck.


runabout

The door being open, Stranleigh walked in unannounced. A two-seated runabout[…]stood by the window, where it could be viewed by passers-by. Further down the room rested a chassis, […]

1913, Robert Barr, chapter 2, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

Any of several small vehicles, especially a small motor car for use on short journeys.


gear shift

(automotive, US, Canada) The lever or other interface a human uses to shift gears.


jinker

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

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

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

The contractor, Mr. A. F. Pincombe, who moved the building intact on a jinker...

1903 March 18, “East Broken Hill School”, in Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, AU, page 1:

A Jinker trailer is a trailer designed to transport long logs or other long pieces of material/blocks.

2024 February 16 (last accessed), Modern Transport Engineers Australia:

(Australia) A specialised trailer for carrying long loads such as logs or other large loads such as when moving buildings.

I fell out of the jinker and it ran over me but again I survived that without too much trouble.

2004 March 11, Australians at War Film Archive, Harold (Mac) Ford:

He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 155:

These two-wheeled passenger vehicles [sulkies], also known as gigs or jinkers in Victoria, could be found in every town and country district [quoting from "Sulkies, Whiskeys and Gigs" by Jeff Powell]....Not to be confused with a timber-hauling jinker, which has little in common.

2017 July 11, 432 Pages-Jinker-Monissa's Place:

Near the homestead they came upon Peter sitting on the shaft of a jinker, crooning a corroboree song and gazing so intently at the coffin-like ridge that he did not see them.

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179:

(Australia) A two-wheeled open horse drawn carriage. A sulky, trap, road cart or gig.


supertanker

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But the task is like trying to turn a super tanker round 180 degrees - it can't be done quickly.

2024 June 12, Sir Michael Holden, “A manifesto for our railway to thrive”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 42:


milch cow

From Middle English melche cow, mylche cowe.

(military, slang) A German WWII submarine designed to carry large cargoes of supplies and transfer them to other submarines.


tailpipe

(US) An exhaust pipe (on a vehicle) (in any configuration)


gear lever

(especially UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The lever used to change gears in a motor vehicle.


car alarm

An audible and often visible alarm that is activated when a motor car/automobile is tampered with.


camshaft

A shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.


car seat

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hovercar

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


pinnace

From Middle French pinasse, from Spanish pinaza, from pino (“pine”) + -aza.

I cast my eyes to the ship, and there she rode, within little more than half a mile of the shore; for they had weighed her anchor as soon as they were masters of her, and, the weather being fair, had brought her to an anchor just against the mouth of the little creek; and the tide being up, the captain had brought the pinnace in ...

(nautical) A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but sometimes a rowboat, and usually serving to carry messages among the larger ships of a fleet.


carryall

(US) Any of several types of automobile, usually a station wagon or van built on a truck chassis.


jet ski

Genericized trademark of Jet Ski. By surface analysis, jet + ski.

"Jet ski" is actually Kawasaki's name for their PWC (personal water craft) models, but like hoovers and speedos has become genericised.

2006 October, “Gimme Fuel: High Octane Advise for Buying a Ski”, in Tracks magazine, page 154:

A small motorized watercraft with a flattish hull and an upright centre, which a rider sits astride.


speeder

Coordinate term: handcar

(rail transport) A motorized railroad track crew cart.


bounder

From bound + -er. In the case of 2. below from the Hindi word "bandar" meaning a monkey, via Anglo-Indian.

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


showboat

And Agnes Moorehead henpecks with stern persistence as Parthy, the captain's loving wife. The sets, which include a full-sized showboat with belching double stacks and sternwheel, are in the best Metro tradition, which means as sumptuous as sumptuous can be.

1951 July 20, Bosley Crowther, “THE SCREEN: A MUSICAL FAVORITE AT RADIO CITY; 'Show Boat,' Metro Remake of Hit, With Kathryn Grayson in Lead, at Music Hall 'Never Trust a Gambler,' New Feature of Palace Theatre, Has Dane Clark in Cast”, in The New York Times:

Mr. Sterling was born in Baltimore on June 24, 1915, to Jack Sexton and Edna Cable, veteran performers in vaudeville, showboats and stock companies.

1990 November 2, Peter B. Flint, “Jack Sterling, 75, Host on Radio For 18 Years in New York, Dies”, in The New York Times:

Lowriding emerged in the 1950's in California, as Mexican-American youths -- in what may have been a reaction to the hot-rod culture dominated by whites -- transformed their cars into fantastical, ground-hugging showboats.

2000 May 21, Dan Neil, “Victory to the Low and Slow”, in The New York Times:

(US) A river steamboat having a resident theatre.


surf boat

A type of boat used in surf lifesaving to go from shore out through the breaking waves, and back again. Current designs are rowed by a crew of four, with a sweep at the back steering. Originally used for mass rescues, but now superseded by powered craft and used only for competition.


Rover

desctree

→ Polish: rower
→ Belarusian: ро́вар (róvar)
→ Ukrainian: ро́вер (róver)
→ Yiddish: ראָווער (rover)


clunker

The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.

2004, Teralee E. M. Bird, What the Herald Angel Sang (Seraphim Trilogy Book One)

2008 July 9, Jacqueline Mitchell, “America's Most Stolen Vehicles”, in Forbes magazine,
So don't think for a moment that your old but tired vehicle matters only to you. Your clunker is cash money to professional thieves.


double-decker

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

A frigate with two decks above the waterline.

(journalism) A headline that is two lines long.

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

2011 December 16, Beena Thomas et al., “HIV in Indian MSM: Reasons for a concentrated epidemic & strategies for prevention”, in The Indian Journal of Medical Research, volume 134, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, →PMID, page 921:

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

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

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

2021 April 16, Steven A Safren et al., “Strengthening resilience to reduce HIV risk in Indian MSM: a multicity, randomised, clinical efficacy trial”, in The Lancet Global Health, volume 9, number 4, →DOI, →PMID, page e448:

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


Nash

A former make of American automobile manufactured by Nash Motors, and later American Motors Corporation.


block heater

An electric heater that heats the engine of a car to ease starting in cold weather.

parkeringsvarmer

an electric heater that heats the engine of a car to ease starting in cold weather


Cadillac

From French Cadillac, from Occitan Cadilhac.
Most places or objects named Cadillac are named for Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a French explorer who founded the eponymous city in Maine and later the city of Detroit, Michigan.

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


fixed head coupé

en-noun

fixed head coupé (plural fixed head coupés)

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


drophead coupé

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


hardtop

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

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


soft top

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


cowling

She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf. She continued to nuzzle and clean the little pea-green body that was blue with white patches about his cowling parts.

2003, David Gilet, The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales:


cowling

A removable protective covering for the engine of an aircraft, motorcycle, etc.


crabber

From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).

affix

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In the bright haze of morning they came into Hort Harbor, where a hundred craft were moored or setting forth: fishermen's boats, crabbers, trawlers, trading-ships, two galleys of twenty oars […]

1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore:

(nautical) A boat used for catching crabs.


bookmobile

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


quinquereme

From Latin quīnquerēmis (“5-oared”), from quīnque (“five”) + rēmus (“oar”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives).

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir / Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine / With a cargo of ivory, / And apes and peacocks, / Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

(history) An ancient Carthaginian or Greek galley having three banks of oars, rowed by five oarsmen: two to an oar in each of the upper rows, and one to the lower oar.


felucca

From Italian feluca, from Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).

"We are very fortunate, Senhora," said Alvarez, as soon as they were in the street; "there is a felucca on the point of sailing to Naples—I have secured a passage, but we must not lose a minute."

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 151–152:

Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.

1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:

"The ghostly feluccas passing along the canal are crewed by ghouls with wrapped heads." Lawrence Durrell, Justine

A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.


oysterman

(nautical) A boat used to dredge for oysters


handcar

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

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

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

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

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


rum-tum

A light rowing boat used for racing on the Thames


disc brake

(automotive, British spelling) A type of brake where the friction is produced by brake pads which are pressed against a disc.


license plate

An identifying tag, usually of metal, bearing a sequence of letters, numbers, or both identifying the vehicle, and placed at the back and, often, also at the front of a motor vehicle.

ታርጋ ቁጥር

an identifying plate attached to a vehicle


cruise ship

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


curricle

So the Curricles in Wales: sc. the old British boates made of Osiers, like a basket, and covered wʰ leather.

1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 85:


fanbelt

A belt which turns a cooling fan in a car engine.


riverboat

A watercraft designed for operating on rivers.


chay

(archaic, colloquial) A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).


Scania

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

Scandinavian Peninsula
Scandinavian Peninsula

A historical region, currently part of Sweden, occupying the southernmost tip of the Scandinavian Peninsula.

سكونا

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


four-in-hand

He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.

2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 293:

(chiefly US) A slip knot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie.


leaf spring

A spring in the form of a curved length(s) of steel, used in the suspension of wheeled vehicles


headlamp

The automobile headlamp uses either a parabolic reflector or a slight modification of it to obtain a concentrated light beam.

1940, Ralph A. Richardson, Optics and Wheels, General Motors Corporation, p. 13

With its long tapered cowcatcher, massive headlamp and enormous diamond smokestack behind, wagon-top boiler, high running-plate above the driving-wheels reached from a front door in the square side-window cab, cylinders with slide valves mounted on top, and double bogie tender, General in its present form is typical of much earlier American locomotive practice.

1942 February, “Notes and News: An Historic American Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:

An individual headlight, particularly of a motor vehicle.


fiacre

Borrowed from French fiacre. From Hôtel de Saint Fiacre, a tavern in Paris operating a horse-carriage service from the 1640s, itself named after the Irish Saint Fiacre (c. 600–670 CE), perhaps from Irish fiach (“raven”).

On the road to Choissi, a fiacre, or hackney-coach, stopped, and out came five or six men, armed with musquets, who took post, each behind a separate tree.

1766, T[obias] Smollett, Travels through France and Italy. […], volume I, London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, page 94:

Poor Jim, with his arms folded and his little legs out in the open fiacre, drank in the sparkling Paris noon and carried his eyes from one side of their vista to the other.

The boy who might have fetched us a fiacre was now doing something else, so we had to go back to the station, and there we found only one, which was falling to pieces.

1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 633:

(historical) A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.


Roller

Only I thought private eyes were supposed to be discreet; you could hardly call yourself that when you drive a Roller.

1991, Sally Wentworth, Taken on Trust, page 9:


vettura

Borrowed from Italian vettura, from Latin vectūra (“conveyance”). Doublet of vecture and voiture.

(historical) A type of four-wheeled carriage, especially one let for hire


passenger ship

A ship whose primary function is to carry passengers.


cargo ship

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number plate

Japanese: ナンバープレート (nanbāpurēto)

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Either of a pair of rectangular metal plates bearing an alphanumeric code, fixed to the front and rear of a motor car to show its identity as registered with the DVLA.


penteconter

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεντηκόντορος (pentēkóntoros, literally “fifty-oared”).

bor+

πεντηκόντορος

(history, obsolete) A galley-type Grecian vessel with fifty oars.


bumper car

A small electric-powered vehicle encircled with a rubber bumper, used in an amusement ride.


lectica

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

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

(inexact) Synonym of litter, any similar vehicle.


parking brake

RSSB's report, released on September 23 2004, revealed that that the parking brakes on neither trolley had applied. It also revealed how the fixed piping carrying hydraulic pressure to the brake units on both had been severed and blanked off. This meant the parking brakes would not have been able to be released from the RRV. Washers to provide a clamping force to keep the parking brakes on were also missing, rendering them "completely inoperative".

2024 February 7, Greg Morse, “Tebay tragedy and track safety”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 41:

A brake in a vehicle that can be set to avoid the vehicle rolling down a hill or being pushed away.

駐車制動 /驻车制动

brake intended for keeping a vehicle stationary without constant operator attention


pushcart

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


troopship

[…] the Duke of Rothesay and the Duke of York, however, are serving as troopships to and from Harwich, and it is unlikely that they will be released for some time to come.

1946 May and June, “Notes and News: Anglo-Irish Steamship Fleets”, in Railway Magazine, page 185:

The former, on the other hand, would put his troopships safely out of its reach.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 65:

A ship used to transport military troops.


tractor-trailer

Coordinate term: (chiefly Australia) road train

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


timing belt

Coordinate term: timing chain

A part of an internal combustion engine that controls the timing of the engine's valves.


minivan

→ Japanese: ミニバン (miniban)

→ Korean: 미니밴 (minibaen)

→ Russian: минивэ́н (minivɛ́n)

→ Thai: มินิแวน (mí-ní-wɛɛn)

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


beemer

Clipping of BMW + -er (used to form slang equivalents).


Rolls

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An exclusive feature is the triple-safe brakes in the Rolls—two independent hydraulic systems plus mechanical linkage to the rear wheels.

1965 January, Jim Dunne, Alex Markovich, “How Plus is a Luxury Car?”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 125, number 1, Hearst Magazines, →ISSN, page 96:

Thus a $100,000 Rolls could earn a tax credit of $6,000 and first-year depreciation of almost $25,000.

1985 March, “A Loophole Big Enough For A Rolls”, in Changing Times, volume 39, number 3, Kiplinger Washington Editors, →ISSN, page 9:

Steven was taking his time pulling the Rolls convertible around to the door.

2008, Gail McFarland, Drem Runner, →ISBN, page 36:


VW

The big German carmakers Daimler, VW and BMW have already indicated they are aiming to comply with the new CO₂ targets regardless of the current situation.

2020 March 27, Gwyn Topham, Fiona Harvey, “Carmakers accused of trying to use crisis to avert emissions crackdown”, in The Guardian:

Initialism of Volkswagen, a German car manufacturer.


Ferrari

From Enzo Ferrari, founder of the Ferrari automotive company.


prairie schooner

en-noun

prairie schooner (plural prairie schooners)

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

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

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

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


Mazda

Transliteration of Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬁 (mazdā, “wisdom”).

translit

(Zoroastrianism) Ahura Mazda, the supreme and transcendental god of Zoroastrianism.


Mazda

Supposedly from Mazda as well as surname of the founder of corporation, Jujiro Matsuda.

Nicole and I met outside the church after my bell choir rehersal. I will never forget watching her climb out of her Mazda RX7 and just keep going up, up, up. She was tall, she was blond and she was gorgeous.

2003, Kathy N. Jublou, Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soul, HCI, →ISBN, page 20:

one of Skip’s friends from the fire department agreed to drive the U-haul with his girlfriend, pulling our Mazda behind, as we drove in the Bronco. I will never forget seeing our cats’ faces in the Mazda while we were following behind.

2006-2007, Debi Wright, Out Of Your Mind, Traumatic Brain Injury, AuthorHouse, page 129

...seated atop a genuine (detached) commode of the white porcelain variety, which he had lugged at great hernia-inducing peril from the back of his Mazda to the Outdoor Cinema site, several blocks away.

2007, Jala Pfaff, Seducing the Rabbi, Blue Flax Press, page 310

A vehicle, especially a car, manufactured by the Mazda Motor Corporation.


Porsche

en-proper noun

Porsche (countable and uncountable, plural Porsches)

Ferdinand Porsche
en:Porsche (disambiguation)

Borrowed from German Porsche
* (automotive): The surname of the founder, Ferdinand Porsche.

(automotive) The German sports car manufacturer founded in 1931 and based in Stuttgart. Full name: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG.


Suzuki

Borrowed from Japanese Suzuki (Suzuki), from Japanese すずき (Suzuki, “surname”) or Japanese スズキ (Suzuki, “automaker”); from Japanese 鈴木 (Suzuki) (automaker from the surname).

A Japanese automotive and motorcycle manufacturer.


ekka

He said that he was ‘going to shoot big game’, and left at half-past ten o'clock in an ekka.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Thrown Away”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 19:

Throughout India the ekka is the ordinary vehicle in which the natives travel, and until recent times was the only one available to Europeans.

2007, J.A. Hammerton, Peoples of All Nations: Their Life Today and Story of Their Past (in 14 Volumes), page 2779:

(India) A small vehicle used in India, pulled by a single horse.


calèche

Borrowed from French calèche, from Slavic diminutive of ‘wheel’ (compare Russian коляска (koljaska), Polish kolasa).

Francesca promised, and the Queen advancing towards the calèche, hastily followed her. The carriage drove off; though not till Anne had given Voiture a most gracious smile, and bid him remember the verses.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 251:

He laughed merrily, showing his compact row of teeth, and drawing his cap over the bald patch, went out and got into the calèche.

1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 179)

All that she knew--and this was comforting--was that soon they would all be starting for home: not in a crowded, jostling old coche, but in a calèche. What a wonderful man Bibi was: so grand and powerful and rich, that he had a calèche of his own and could come and go as he pleased.

A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.


sport utility vehicle

en-noun

sport utility vehicle (plural sport utility vehicles)

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


fuck truck

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


sailing vessel

(nautical) A boat or ship powered by wind in its sails; a sailboat or sailing ship.


chalupa

/t͡ʃəˈluːpə/

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Borrowed from Mexican Spanish chalupa. Doublet of shallop and sloop.


off-roader

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


land yacht

A vehicle used in land sailing, consisting of little more than a carriage and a sail.


village cart

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


Saab

Initialism of Swedish Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (“Swedish Aeroplane Company”).

der

A Swedish aerospace and defence company, which formerly also produced automobiles.


pleasure craft

Now the estuary has silted up, and only small pleasure craft can sail up the narrow channel.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 68:

A boat used for recreational activities, such as sport fishing or touring.


cabin cruiser

A hundred yards away a cluster of boys on the deck of a sturdy cabin-cruiser swung their caps and sent a hail across.

1917, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 4, in The Adventure Club Afloat:

Today the ubiquitous cabin cruiser seems to many a Sunday skipper like nothing more than a watertight version of the car he left parked at the marina.

1963 July 5, “Perils of the Surface”, in Time:

The Franks were lost on July 5, shortly after leaving Grenada on their cabin cruiser Reel Lucky.

2007 November 5, Denyse Renne, “Lost at sea; no sign of brothers for 3 months”, in Trinidad and Tobago Express:

(nautical) A motorboat which has enclosed living quarters, especially a privately owned pleasure craft.


pleasure boat

Steaming up the Adriatic aboard ex-King Farouk's former pleasure boat (now renamed Freedom), Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser arrived last week at the beautiful Yugoslav seaport of Dubrovnik.

1958 July 14, “When Soldiers Meet”, in Time:

A boat used for recreational activities, such as sport fishing or touring. [from 17th c.]


Volkswagen

A German car manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg.


Volkswagen

فولكس واجن

a car manufacturer or a car manufactured by Volkswagen


dandi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


warcraft

en-noun

warcraft (countable and uncountable, plural warcrafts or warcraft)

/ˈwɔːkɹɑːft/

(uncountable) The art or skill of conducting a war.


necker's knob

You remember the necker's knob on your high school jalopy?

1963, Herbert Gold, Salt: A Novel, Dial Press, page 246:

(idiomatic, slang, dated) A knob attached to the steering wheel of an automobile, especially before the widespread availability of power steering, helping the driver steer with one arm and leaving the other arm free to provide romantic attention to a companion.


Brodie knob

(dated) A knob attached to the steering wheel of a motor vehicle, especially before the widespread availability of power steering, helping the driver steer with one arm.

Brodie knob
Steve Brodie (bridge jumper)


corf

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

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

винтер

container used to store live fish underwater

(mining) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.


dodgem

What better way to let off a little steam, than by zipping around on the dodgems, or flying high on the Cosmic Typhoon roller coaster?

2007 December 19, “Special Offer”, in North Devon Gazette, UK:

(UK, Ireland) A bumper car in an amusement park.


fog lamp

(automotive) A bright red lamp (normally one of a pair) at the rear of a motor car that can be switched on during foggy weather so as to avoid collisions from cars approaching from behind

takasumuvalo

a bright red lamp at the rear of a motor car


merchant marine

merchant marine (plural merchant marines)

(countable) Synonym of merchant navy: a fleet of commercial vessels.

Captain Robert Dollar of San Francisco, dean of American ship owners, […] is still, although nearly 80, the eager champion of an American privately owned merchant marine.

1923 May 28, “Captain Dollar Speaks”, in Time:

(countable) Synonym of merchant ship: a single vessel in such a fleet.

merchant mariner
merchant mariner#English

(countable, proscribed, nonstandard) Synonym of merchant mariner: a sailor in such a fleet.


sedan chair

/səˈdæn ˌtʃɛər/

Clarifying the intended meaning or sense of sedan.

kador-doug

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

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

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

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


PWC

Clearly, Yamaha saw a trend coming when it designed this big PWC. Since the Callaway Gardens introduction, Bombardier debuted its own 3-person watercraft, the Sea-Doo GT.

1990 March, Cliff Gromer, “Firsthand Report: Yamaha WaveRunner III”, in Popular Mechanics, page 104:

Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, serious criticism of our culture of consumption and domination, symbolized nicely by PWC, was very often thought un-American and unacceptable.

2000, South Carolina Environmental Law Journal, volumes 9-10, page 17:

(g) Personal water craft (PWC). (1) PWC may operate on Lake Meredith except in the following closed areas: stilling basin below Sanford Dam, within 750 feet of the Sanford Dam intake tower, and on the waters of the Canadian River.

2010, Office of the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 36: Parks, Forests, and Public Property, page 120:

personal water craft
personal water craft#English


recreational vehicle

recreational vehicle (plural recreational vehicles)

desc

→ Canadian French: véhicule récréatif (calque)

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


stocker

For a starter, a complete technical analysis of the winningest NASCAR stocker of all time, Richard Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere.

Ford Motor Company’s response to the Charger 500 was the 1969 Talladega and Cyclone Spoiler II, sleek, slippery stockers that forced Dodge designers back to the drawing board.

1993, Mike Mueller, Chrysler Muscle Cars →ISBN, MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, page 86

Any small-block Chevy engine, whether it be a stocker, street rod, or racer, will benefit from proper balancing.

2002, Jim Richardson, How to Build a Small-Block Chevy for the Street →ISBN, page 58

(automotive) A racecar in certain classes of auto racing whose origins are nominally or notionally related to factory-stock autos, such as stock car racing or super-stock drag racing.


motor home

recreational vehicle
recreational vehicle

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

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


cariole

(Canada, historical) A sleigh drawn by horses, with seats for a driver and possibly passengers.

(Canada, historical) A toboggan drawn by dogs, with a passenger or cargo compartment enclosed by skins or fabric, and a small platform at the rear.


cockboat

Haue care, I pray, to guide the cock-bote well, / Least worse on sea then vs on land befell.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!

1874, Marcus Clarke, “Chapter V”, in For the Term of His Natural Life:

(nautical) A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.


footplate

Unlike the earlier standard designs, in which the whole of the footplate was on the engine, fall plates are re-introduced and these are hinged from the front of the tender to rest on the rearward extension of the cab floor.

1954 March, “New Class "9" 2-10-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 166:

All the same, nearly eight hours on the footplate covering a distance of 320 miles, with an ambient temperature of up to 103° for much of the time, proved an ordeal which I would not lightly undertake again.

1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611:

After a while we left the engine, but not before André had examined the 4-6-4 very carefully, with hammer and torch, both outside and underneath. And that was the end of my footplate work on this particular weekend.

1961 March, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:

This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train.

2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:

(rail transport) The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive and supports the boiler and the driver's cab, particularly in the United Kingdom.

(auto parts) A platform on which the driver's foot rests but which, unlike a pedal, has no effect.


footplate

en-verb

footplate (third-person singular simple present footplates, present participle footplating, simple past and past participle footplated)

footplates (present singular third-person)
footplating (participle present)
footplated (participle past)
footplated (past)

Hard work is required from men and machines as I was to experience later when footplating Lambton No 5 on five bogies battling its way up Newtondale.

1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 415:

(rail transport) To travel (or work) on the footplate of a locomotive.


cable car

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

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

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

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

A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo.


foot brake

A brake controlled by foot, as opposed to a hand brake.


handbrake

On arrival at Spiez, the locomotive (No. 206) was immediately uncoupled and drew ahead to enable an Italian through coach from Interlaken to Milan to be loose shunted (with passengers aboard and controlled by means of its handbrake) on to the front of the train.

1953 August, J. G. Click, “The Lötschberg Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 515:

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.

(mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.


Corvette

From corvette (“a small, manoeuvrable warship”).

A type of sports car, manufactured by Chevrolet from 1953 to present.


shallop

Borrowed from French chaloupe, possibly from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and sloop.

Into the same she leapt, and with the ore / Did thrust the shallop from the floting strand: / So safetie found at sea, which she found not at land.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Thou eſpiedſt the ſhallop’s ſcarlet ſtreamer from far, and joyfully ſhoutedſt: Behold Lars cometh!

1767, David Crantz, “Of the Sciences of the Greenlanders”, in [John Gambold], transl., The History of Greenland: Containing a Description of the Country, and Its Inhabitants: […], London: […] [F]or the Brethren’s Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen; and sold by J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, § 48, page 239:

The first event in the Indian wars of New England, as related to its settlement by our forefathers, occurred on the 8th of December, 1620, while a company of the Pilgrims were coasting along the shores towards Plymouth Bay, in their shallop.

1906, George Madison Bodge, “Introductory Chapter”, in Soldiers in King Philip's War: Being a Critical Account of that War, with a Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England from 1620–1677, 3rd edition, page 1:

(archaic) A kind of light boat; a dinghy.


Honda

Borrowed from Japanese 本田 (Honda) or Japanese ホンダ (Honda).

they left on Sonnyʼs seventeenth birthday present — the Honda motorbike heʼd begged them to buy him

2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 358:

A Japanese automotive and motorcycle manufacturer, named after its founder, Soichiro Honda.


life raft

A usually inflatable raft carried aboard a ship or airplane, used to save lives in case the vessel has to be abandoned in an emergency on the sea.


commerce raider

en-noun

commerce raider (plural commerce raiders)

(historical) A naval vessel tasked with disrupting enemy merchant shipping.


(nautical) A class of two-handed double-trapeze dinghy (from its maximum length of 16 feet, approx. 4900 millimetres).


keelboat

By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.

1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi:

(sailing) Any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard).