cattle wagon

The 1950 programme of C.I.E. [in Ireland] provides for building 300 more cattle wagons, 200 covered goods wagons, and 30 more goods brake vans.

1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Rolling Stock Programme, C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 407:

(rail transport, UK) a covered or uncovered goods wagon (mostly formerly) used for the transportation of live cattle.


ballast wagon

(rail transport, UK) a hopper wagon used to carry ballast (stone) for railway track maintenance purposes.


hopper car

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


Clapham Junction

It has never been satisfactorily explained how Clapham Junction came by its name. It is in Mid-Battersea, and is so indicated in Bradshaw.

1951 March, M. D. Greville, “The Nomenclature of Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 193:

(rail transport) A major rail transport hub in south-west London, England, which has the distinction of being the busiest railway station in Britain.


hopper wagon

Reshaping [of British Railways] initiated the development of what would become merry-go-round trains, delivering coal non-stop to power stations in newly built hopper wagons.

2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:

(rail transport, UK) A railway goods wagon which is used to transport bulk materials in a hopper, the load being usually discharged through the bottom of the wagon.


four-wheel-drive

four-wheel drive
four-wheel drive#English

(automotive) four-wheel drive when used as an attributive adjective.


boxer engine

(automotive) An engine with two horizontally opposed cylinder banks, commonly used in Porsche and Subaru automobiles.


straight engine

en-noun

straight engine (plural straight engines)


straight-eight

(engineering, automotive) An engine with eight cylinders in one line or row.

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


in-line engine

The straight-eight is an eight-cylinder in-line engine.

(automotive) An engine that has all cylinders in one line or row.


timing chain

Coordinate term: timing belt

(automotive) A chain which connects the crankshaft and the camshaft of an engine, synchronizing the operation of the inlet and exhaust valves.


cable ferry

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


ghoster

(nautical) A vessel that sails seemingly without wind.


TPMS

tire pressure monitoring system
tire pressure monitoring system#English

(automotive) Initialism of tire pressure monitoring system.


wheelslip

The traction motors are connected in three parallel groups of two in series, and the mid-points of each pair of motors are connected together; the mid-point connection is used in conjunction with relays to form a device which is sensitive to wheelslip, thus leading to an improvement in adhesion.

1960 April, “English Electric diesels for the Sudan Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 218:

Minor changes to control gear include the provision of automatic wheelslip protection, since these units will be operated on lines with ruling gradients of 1 in 60 or 1 in 80. Wheelslip automatically causes the main generator field excitation to be reduced; the load regulator is forced back to minimum excitation and, if operating in one of the two stages of traction motor field divert, causes reversion to full field.

1962 December, “The Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 385:

Daily diagramming involves the single-heading of 1400-tonne trains over the northern banks, where wheelslip can be experienced when the rails are wet.

2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 54:

(rail transport) A problem in starting or running a locomotive or train, where excess power supplied to the driven wheels causes them to turn against the rail, especially when the rails are slippery, without moving the train forward.


island platform

island platform (plural island platforms)

From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.

1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:

In the new layout, it is proposed to provide three island platforms with six platform faces varying from 1,075 to 1,290 ft. in length and including bays.

1960 February, “The modernisation of Peterborough”, in Trains Illustrated, page 108:

This time I disembark at Dumbarton Central, a station with two island platforms blessed with yellow brick buildings and iron canopies dating from 1896, and listed Grade A.

2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77:

(rail transport) A railway platform which has tracks on both sides.


unbitt

en-verb

unbitt (third-person singular simple present unbitts, present participle unbitting, simple past and past participle unbitted)

unbitts (present singular third-person)
unbitting (participle present)
unbitted (participle past)
unbitted (past)

Unbitt the cable!

(nautical, transitive) To remove from the bitts.


dogspike

(rail transport) A spike with a slightly altered head shape for easier extraction when the spike has become too loose in the sleeper.


tie plate

(rail transport) A steel plate used on rail tracks between flanged T rail and the crossties.


dog spike

The type normally used is the British Standard 75-lb. flat-bottom rail, which is laid on cast-iron bearing plates and on plain tracks is secured by steel dog spikes.

1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:

(rail transport) Alternative form of dogspike.


motor ship

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

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

moottorilaiva

ship powered by an internal combustion engine


moon pool

From moon + pool, from the fact that, on some nights, moonlight can be seen reflected by the surface of the sea through the opening, making it resemble a swimming pool.

(nautical, chiefly oil industry) An opening in the base of the hull of a vessel (especially a marine drilling platform), which is used for lowering equipment into the sea below.

moonpool

opening in the base of the hull of a vessel, which is used for lowering equipment into the sea below


fanny pad

(US, UK, automotive, slang) An unsprung separate pillion seat on a motorcycle.


internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine#English

piston cylinders
piston cylinder#English

(automotive, engineering) An internal combustion engine with four piston cylinders arranged in two rows of two, arranged in a V-shape.


transmodal

Excess capacities for some modes and system inefficiencies, to some extent, for all modes continue to pose major concerns. This program by its structure and definition is transmodal; however, the issue of substituting telecommunications for transportation services can have a significant impact upon one or several modes...

1978, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Analysis of DOT Near-term Transportation Research, Development, and Demonstration Activities, Pasadena: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, →OCLC, page 117:

(transport) Using more than one mode of transportation or shipping.


broad reach

We're sailing on a broad reach.

(nautical) The point of sail where the wind is blowing sternwards of the side of the vessel


broad reach

broad reach (third-person singular simple present broad reaches, present participle broad reaching, simple past and past participle broad reached)

broad reaches (present singular third-person)
broad reaching (participle present)
broad reached (participle past)
broad reached (past)


beam reach

We're sailing on a beam reach.

(nautical) The point of sail where the wind is blowing directly onto the side of the vessel


beam reach

beam reach (third-person singular simple present beam reaches, present participle beam reaching, simple past and past participle beam reached)

beam reaches (present singular third-person)
beam reaching (participle present)
beam reached (participle past)
beam reached (past)


NEDC

(automotive, regulation) Initialism of New European Driving Cycle.


diff lock

locking differential
locking differential

(automotive, informal) locking differential


locking differential

en-noun

locking differential (plural locking differentials)

(automotive) A kind of automotive differential that provides increased traction by restricting each of the two wheels on an axle to the same rotational speed without regard to available traction or differences in resistance seen at each wheel.


land ho

(nautical) Shouted by the ship's watch to inform the crew that land has been spotted.


TUC

(rail transport) The station code of Tung Chung in Hong Kong.


gaff sail

(nautical). A quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail supported from a spar rising aft from a mast.


UNISIG

(railways, transport) Acronym of Union of Signalling Industry.


ERTMS

(railways, transport) Initialism of European Rail Traffic Management System (an initiative backed to greatly enhance safety, increase efficiency of trains and enhance cross-border interoperability of rail transport in Europe.)


SERA

Single European Railway Area
w:Single European Railway Area

(European Union, railways) Acronym of Single European Railway Area.


go on the account

en-verb

go on the account (third-person singular simple present goes on the account, present participle going on the account, simple past went on the account, past participle gone on the account)

goes on the account (present singular third-person)
going on the account (participle present)
went on the account (past)
gone on the account (participle past)

And as for serving under Goffe, I hope it is no new thing for gentlemen of fortune who are going on the account, to change a Captain now and then?

At this island he ran away from his ship, and associating himself with some desperate fellows, they stole a canoe, and went away to the Grand Camanas, to join some others of their own stamp, who lurked thereabouts, with design to go on the account, the term for pirating.

1836, Ezra Strong, “Captain Thomas Howard”, in The Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates:

However, during peacetime, privateers and navy men were left without employment, so they often went on the account.

1999, Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 118:

(nautical) To become a pirate; to join a pirating or filibustering expedition.


beskozyrka

en-noun

beskozyrka (plural beskozyrki or beskozyrkas)

beskozyrki (plural)
beskozyrkas (plural)

(nautical, navy) A flat visorless sailor's cap.


match race

(water sports, sailing, yachting) A race in sport sail yachting where two sailboats race against one-another, head-to-head, on the same course, at the same time.

water sports; yachting; water sports; yachting

fleet race

where many sailing yacht go head-to-head


fleet race

(water sports, sailing, yachting) A race in sport sail yachting where a squadron of sailboats race as a fleet, against one another, on the same course, at the same time.

match race

where only two sailing yacht go head-to-head


fleet racing

(water sports, sailing, yachting) A type of sport sail yachting event where a squadron of sailboats race as a fleet, against one another, on the same course, at the same time. (The famous Whitbread or Volvo Ocean Race, is of this type, as is the America's Cup World Series, and Extreme Sailing Series.)


match racing

(water sports, sailing, yachting) A type of sport sail yachting event where two sailboats race against one-another, head-to-head, on the same course, at the same time. (The America's Cup, the most famous sport yachting event, is of this type.)


stadium sailing

The in-port races for this Volvo Ocean Race are following the latest 'stadium sailing' trends by being held on a fixed course to gain maximum spectator appeal.

2011 October 29, James Boyd, “Abu Dhabi claims first Volvo Ocean Race in-port race”, in Daily Sail:

For the first time in history, the America's Cup would be visible to fans on the shoreline, part of Ellison's vision of "stadium sailing".

2018, Mary Pilon, The Kevin Show: An Olympic Athlete’s Battle with Mental Illness, page 218:

The Premiere Sailing League USA (PSL) has announced its choice of the new RS21 to elevate the dynamic of the sport through its stadium sailing program.

2018 August 16, Jan Harley, “Premiere Sailing League USA chooses RS21 as the new boat for Stadium Sailing”, in Sail World:

At the end of August the Extreme Sailing Series™, now in its 12th year, arrives in Cardiff Bay, UK and from 24th – 27th August an array of Olympians, world champions and America’s Cup superstars racing on identical hydrofoil catamarans called GC32 will battle it out to win the only UK leg of the ultimate stadium sailing race global championship.

2018 August 21, “Schiller Water Bike Races at the Extreme Sailing Series™ Cardiff”, in Superyacht News:

(water sports, sailing, yachting) A type of sport sail yachting close to the shore in an in-shore environment with tight courses, with shore-based fan stands comprising the "stadium". (Olympic sailing events typically are stadium sailing events. All Extreme Sailing Series races are stadium sailing events. Many of the America's Cup World Series fleet racing regattas are stadium sailing events.)


padeye

(nautical) A ring attached to a vessel and used as a fairlead.


AWS

Furthermore, the train was equipped with AWS (Automatic Warning System), which would have provided an audible warning that a signal was being approached.

2019 November 6, Paul Stephen, “Cowden: a crash radio could have prevented”, in Rail, page 72:

Automatic Warning System
w:Automatic Warning System

(rail transport, safety) Initialism of Automatic Warning System.


deckplate

(nautical) A watertight plate (purlin) at the edge of a deck


sternport

(nautical) An opening in the rear part of a vessel.


coachline

(automotive) A decorative horizontal line running along the sides of a motor vehicle.


dedoubling

(rail transport) The conversion of a twin-track railway line to single-track.


revvy

en-adj

revvy (comparative more revvy or revvier, superlative most revvy or revviest)

more revvy (comparative)
revvier (comparative)
most revvy (superlative)
revviest (superlative)

The Yamaha has a much revvier motor that also pumps out more torque than anything else on two wheels—except the Triumph, of course, which effectively is a two-wheel torque factory.

2010 Jan, Cycle World Magazine, volume 49, number 1, page 64:

It was more revvy in nature, with a slightly peaky delivery when compared to its bigger sibling; maximum power of 144bhp did not arrive until 6,500rpm.

2013, Robert Foskett, Alfa Romeo 916 GTV and Spider: The Complete Story:

(informal, automotive) Easy to rev up fast.


monomotor

From mono- + motor, probably borrowed from Continental European applications; compare with French monomoteur.

Model of the new 2,800 h.p. diesel-electric C-C with Alsthom monomotor bogies, of which the first is about to be delivered to the V.R.

1962 June, “Beyond the Channel: Finland: The V.R. in their centenary year”, in Modern Railways, page 419, photo caption:

(rail transport, attributive) Having a single traction motor driving the axles on a bogie.


winnebago

en-noun

winnebago (plural winnebagoes or winnebagos)

winnebagoes (plural)
winnebagos (plural)

Genericization of the trademark Winnebago, named after Winnebago County, Iowa, where the company used to be headquartered.

The wildly entertaining trip that follows, involving a used Winnebago and an old pickup truck with ropes for seatbelts, has a profound effect on Pedro.

2023 September 13, Matt de la Peña, “‘Mexikid’ and ‘Salsa Magic’ Drive Latino Kids to Their Roots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

recreational vehicle
recreational vehicle

(Canada, US, automotive, slang) A motorhome; a recreational vehicle (RV).


snow tire

(automotive) A tire with rubber that remains soft at most winter temperatures, designed to maintain grip on snow and ice (historically these tires have poor tread life on tarmac and pavement, especially in non-cold temperatures)


winter tire

(automotive) A tire with rubber that remains soft in most winter temperatures, to maintain grip on snow on ice, with good tread life on dry roads in cold conditions (tread life is poor in warm and hot conditions)


all-weather tire

all-weather tire (plural all-weather tires)

(automotive, American spelling, Canadian spelling) A tire with rubber that remains soft in below-freezing conditions, but gives longer tread life in warm conditions than winter tires


all-season tire

all-season tire (plural all-season tires)

(automotive) A tire designed to have long tread life in warm conditions, with rubber that remains soft down to freezing weather, for good performance in three seasons and passable performance in winter


summer tire

dry-weather tire

a summer tire with poor wet surface performance, but with improved high speed dry performance

wet-weather tire

a summer tire with improved wet weather performance to reduce aquaplaning

(automotive) A tire designed to have long tread life in warm conditions, that will maintain grip in wet and dry conditions, and will function in hot and cool weather, but does not maintain grip in cold or freezing conditions


studded tire

(automotive) A tire with rubber that remains soft in subfreezing conditions, and equipped with metal studs (pins) to increase traction on ice by digging into it


moor up

en-verb

moor up (third-person singular simple present moors up, present participle mooring up, simple past and past participle moored up)

moors up (present singular third-person)
mooring up (participle present)
moored up (participle past)
moored up (past)

We have to moor up for the night.

(intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.

All the fleet was moored up in harbour.

(transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like


tank car

Coordinate term: tanker truck

I saw livestock kept alive only because water had been brought to them long distances in tank cars.

1936 September 6, Franklin Roosevelt, 1:16 from the start, in Fireside Chat 8: On Farmers and Laborers, Miller Center:

(rail transport) A railroad car or rolling stock designed to transport liquids or gases.


flight number

(aviation, travel) A callsign assigned to a commercial flight for the purposes of reservation and ticketing, typically consisting of a 2 character airline code and a 1 to 4 digit number to indicate a particular service.


over-the-road

an over-the-road trucker

(US, road transport) long-haul; interstate


skid car

(automotive education) A car with a frame on casters attached to it (a skid frame), which lowers the effective weight of the car on its tires, allowing easy skids, simulating aquaplaning and driving on ice


Eurobalise

(railways) A specific kind of balise used in the European Train Control System.


SX

(automotive) Initialism of special, special edition.


cog railway

(rail transport) Synonym of rack railway


rack railway

(rail transport) A railway that uses a rack and pinion mechanism


VNC

(computing, networking, automotive) Abbreviation of Vehicular Networking Conference.


en-noun

V2G (countable and uncountable, plural V2Gs)

From vehicle to grid technology, technology for battery electric vehicles to absorb surge production from variable renewable sources and surge demand.

(countable and uncountable, automotive, power grid) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-grid technology.

(countable, automotive, power grid) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-grid unit.


(automotive, power grid) Initialism of vehicle-to-grid.


auxiliary cruiser

auxiliary cruiser (plural auxiliary cruisers)

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

German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
auxiliary cruiser


OID

(aviation, travel) Initialism of office ID.


IAS

(aviation, travel) Initialism of insert after segment; GDS code, and used on older types of airline keyboards.


air line

(rail transport) A railroad following a very flat, straight route between two endpoints in order to minimize travel times, choosing the shortest, most direct route practical even if longer route that was more advantageous was available.


AKI

AKI (countable and uncountable, plural AKIs)

anti-knock index
anti-knock index#English

(automotive) Abbreviation of anti-knock index.


MON

motor octane number
motor octane number#English

(automotive) Abbreviation of motor octane number.


woggin

Unknown. Found from at least 1762 through the late 1800s, at first in reference to auks. Olson and Lund speculate it initially referred to auks, followed penguin in being applied to Southern penguins, and fell out of use for auks after they went extinct, and for penguins after being displaced by penguin; they say "Beane’s (1905: 88) rendering of the cry of a penguin as “wauk” suggests a possible onomatopoeic origin", or it may be connected to woggle (“wobble”), a word "used in connection with the great auk" (e.g. in a 1672 work by John Josselyn; and the 1885 Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York says early writers "quaintly called [auks] 'wobble-birds'").

4 mo 19th [19 April 1762] wind Started to Northward got on the [North Carolina Outer] Banks On the Latter Part Calm. Caught 10 wogens. […]
5 mo 10th [10 May 1762] the Wind Came Round to the Northward in a Flurry or hard Squall. Spoke with Seth Clark [master of an unidentified whaler]. Saw Wogæns. I Judge we are Nigh the Banks.

1762, Journal of Micajah Coffin / logbook of the Sandwich, sloop of Nantucket, voyage of 1762, quoted by Olson and Lund (see further reading)

Sept 1775 [saw] wargins.

1775, logbook of the Desire, schooner of Wareham, Massachusetts, voyage of 1775–1775 to Davis Straits, quoted by Olson and Lund (see further reading)

Sea Waggin found on the banks of Newfound Land.

1793, Abraham Russell, caption on a sketch (in his school navigation book) of an auk, held in the New Bedford Whaling Museum

The poor woggins were also periodically kept alive for a few months in Louis XVI's menagerie at Versailles.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 81:

(chiefly nautical, slang, now historical) A great auk (in the northern hemisphere).

at 1 PM Sent our Boat on Shore After Some refreshments She returned with A Plenty of Woggins we Cooked Some for Supper.

1792 December 20, Silvanus Crosby, logbook of the Asia, ship of Nantucket, Massachusetts, voyage of 1791–1794, quoted by Olson and Lund (see further reading)

It was accordingly done by the command of the Captain, when the woggin, in a stately manner, walked as, and showed signs of happiness and contentment. He was perfectly tame, would suffer the approach of any one of the crew, ...

1831, The Philadelphia Album and Ladies' Literary Port Folio, page 262:

One of the crew leaped upon the whale, and the woggin came fearlessly to his hand, and was taken on board. On holding a consultation, it was, determined to kill the strange bird and make a purse of his skin; but one, more humane than the [others, saved him].

The White man looked over his shoulder, and slowly wrinkled his leathem cheeks into an encouraging smile. 'Like ter near killed a woggin,' replied he sententiously. 'Will be ashore in a brace of shakes.' […]

1880, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, page 519:

"And there's a bag full of woggins' hearts, which we can roast on sticks, and who doubts that we shall make a heart-y supper?"

1887, W. H. Macy, beyond Desolation, in Ballou's Monthly Magazine, pages 234-5

(obsolete, nautical, slang) A penguin (in the southern hemisphere).


MEDA

(aviation, travel, initialism) Medical Fitness for Air Travel


compliance car

The Honda for the most part is a compliance car, as shown by the fact the Japanese automaker only intend to build 1,100 of them.

2012 June, “2013 Honda Fit EV Review”, in InsideEVs, archived from the original on 2019-07-30:

Critics have called low-volume battery electrics “compliance cars,” built in relatively low numbers mainly to satisfy California’s zero-emission mandates.

2013 January, Jim Motavalli, “The Greenest and Meanest Cars in 2013”, in Wheels, The New York Times:

(US, automotive) A motor vehicle made in a manner to comply with government specification, in quantities to comply to government regulations on quota minimums, to sell to the public, frequently in limited areas, at a loss, without promotion, and under active dissuasion among dealers.


(automotive) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-infrastructure. (communication between vehicles and the road)


(automotive) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-infrastructure technology.


mainmast head

What early philosophic hours he keeps,
How regular his meals, how sound he sleeps!
Not sounder he that on the mainmast head,
While morning kindles with a windy red,
Begins a long look-out for distant land,
Nor quits till evening-watch his giddy stand,
Then swift descending with a seaman’s haste,
Slips to his hammock, and forgets the blast.

1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: J. Johnson, page 280:

Fedallah first descried this jet. For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 51”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

1912, George H. Read, The Last Cruise of the Saginaw, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 2, p. 12,
With the homeward-bound pennant flying from the mainmast head and with the contractor’s working party on board, we sailed from the Midway Islands on Friday, October 29, at 4 P.M. for San Francisco.

(nautical) The top of a sailing ship’s mainmast.


(automotive) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-X. (communication between road vehicles and other features, such as other vehicles or road infrastructure)


(automotive) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-X technology.


(automotive) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-vehicle. (communication between road vehicles)


(automotive) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-vehicle technology.


squat effect

(nautical) The hydrodynamic phenomenon by which a vessel moving quickly through shallow water creates an area of lowered pressure that causes the vessel to be closer to the seabed than would otherwise be expected.


loxodograph

For this purpose he has contrived an instrument which he calls a "loxodograph," which consists of a compass placed below the ordinary ship's compass, so as to occupy the same relative position in the ship, and so that it can be compared from time to time with the normal instrument.

1867, The Popular Science Review, volume 6, page 110:

(nautical, obsolete) An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled


lead name

(travel) the first named person on an invoice, typically the person having control over the contract.


twakow

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


six-month club

(US, travel) The official Customs and Border Protection list of countries whose citizens do not require six months' validity on their passport on arrival in the United States.


coaling tower

(rail transport) a tall structure formerly used to supply coal to steam locomotives. Some still survive.


home port

(nautical) Alternative spelling of homeport


woman overboard

(nautical) Announcement that a woman has fallen over the side of the vessel.


junk rig

(nautical) A type of sail rig in which rigid members called battens span the full width of the sail and extend the sail forward of the mast.


McLaren

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

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


piece system

(aviation, travel) Airline baggage allowance that restricts passengers to a specific number of bags, rather than a specific weight.


displacement speed

displacement speed (plural displacement speeds)


hull speed

(nautical) The speed at which the wavelength of a vessel's bow wave is equal to the boat length. In the sailship era the hull speed was regarded as an approximate limit for the speed a ship could reach.


coilover

From coil + over. Ellipsis of coil spring over shock absorber strut..

ellipsis of

(automotive) An automobile suspension device consisting of a shock absorber with a coil spring encircling it.


DEF

diesel exhaust fluid
diesel exhaust fluid#English

(automotive) Abbreviation of diesel exhaust fluid.


running track

There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway.

2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:

(rail transport) A line on which trains can run, as opposed to a siding.


shooting brake

French: break

(historical, British, automotive) A vehicle used to carry shooting parties.

The car is a shooting brake, which was conceived to take gentlemen on the hunt with their firearms and dogs. While the name has been loosely applied to station wagons in general, the most famous shooting brakes had custom two-door bodies fitted to the chassis of pedigreed cars from the likes of Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce.

2006 November 26, William Diem, “The Shooting Brake Makes a Comeback”, in New York Times:

(automotive) A group of car body styles such as station wagon or coupé.


autocentric

en-adj

autocentric (comparative more autocentric, superlative most autocentric)

more autocentric (comparative)
most autocentric (superlative)

(automotive, road transport, urban studies, uncommon) Of the planning of a city or community, built or designed primarily for automobile vehicles.


autocentrism

From autocentric + -ism or auto- (automobile) + -centrism.

(automotive, road transport, urban studies, uncommon) The planning of a city or community that is built or designed primarily for automobile vehicles.


Northern

Along the UP Trail, America's original transcontinental, mention of the 800's will long recall the capable, long-legged Northerns that were built for standard-weight limiteds but often doubled for diesels on the City streamliners.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 106:

(rail transport) a steam locomotive of the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement.


Stang

From the German and Jewish surname, from the noun Stange (“pole”).


Wabash

(rail transport, historical) The former Wabash Railroad.


booster seat

(automotive) A child safety seat that raises the vertical position of the user to allow a safer use of regular car seat belts.


TaaS

transportation as a service
w:transportation as a service

(automotive) Abbreviation of transportation as a service.


Crompton

Named for the installed Crompton Parkinson electrical equipment.

(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 33 locomotive.


Apperson

(automotive, historical) A former American motorcar manufacturer.


line lock

(automotive) A device that allows the front brakes to lock independently of the rear brakes via a switch.


saxboard

(nautical) The top strake (edge of the side) of a rowing boat


Stepney

* From Old English Stybbanhyð (“Stybba's hithe”), from Stybba (personal name) + hyþ (“harbour; landing-place; hithe”).
* (spare wheel): Originally a brand name, from the Stepney Spare Motor Wheel company.


Lackawanna

/ˌlækəˈwɑnə/

From Lenape Lechauwa-hannek : "the river that forks".

A pioneer 4-8-4 operator, Lackawanna introduced a 77-inch-drivered Pocono (as DL&W dubbed it) in 1927 for passenger service, was soon buying a 70-inch version for Hoboken-Buffalo freight runs, finally achieved a 74-inch dual-purpose machine.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 24:

(rail transport) a short name for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, which was merged into the Erie Lackawanna Railroad in 1960.


oil tanker

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


sounding line

(nautical) A weighted line with distances marked off at regular intervals, used to measure the depth of water under a boat.


daily driver

(automotive, informal) A personally owned automobile driven on a frequent basis for standard and mundane tasks. Also any tagged/insured race car that is too slow to be competitive in racing.


MSD

Masjid railway station
w:Masjid railway station

(rail transport) The station code of Masjid railway station in India.


ship canal

(nautical) A canal designed for use by ships


broad-gauge

a broad-gauge railroad track

Broad-gauge track consists of both bullhead and flat-bottom rails, carried on a variety of sleepers—treated soft wood, hard wood, steel trough—and cast-iron pots and plates.

1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 120:

An offensive against Germany would require large forces and offered no certain prospect of success. An attack on Austria promised great victories, the destruction of the whole Austrian army and of the Austro-Hungarian state itself, the reordering of half of Europe—and meanwhile Russia would need only small forces to defend herself against the Germans, inflicting on them the disadvantages of poor roads and Russian broad-gauge lines.

1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 100:

In the Gladstone photo, the sitters look too small for their conveyances, and this is because they were sitting in extra-wide - that is, broad-gauge - wagons of the Great Western, which would run along the Met on broad-gauge tracks (7 foot 2 inches between the rails), together with trains using standard-gauge tracks of 4 foot 8½. In the Met's own language, the line ran on 'the mixed-gauge principle', which makes the arrangement sound almost sensible. That broad gauge did not last long, and all Underground trains today run on the standard gauge.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33:

(rail transport) Relating to broad gauge or having a broad gauge.

шырокакале́йны

(rail transport) relating to broad gauge or having a broad gauge


forestem

From Middle English forestempne, forestavne, forstanyg, perhaps continuing Old English frumstemn (“the forepart of a ship; prow”), otherwise, equivalent to fore- + stem.

der

When the ship was in position with the forestem to the south, a grave chamber was constructed just behind the mast.

2014, Anders Winroth, The Age of the Vikings, page 93:

Above the waterline they were more symmetrical with a transom-shaped bow above the fore-stem.

2015, Sean McGrail, Early Ships and Seafaring:

Magnus walked to one of the ships and put his hand on the forestem at the front.

2017, Sabrina Jarema, Lord of the Mountains:


NRB

Norbury railway station
w:Norbury railway station

(rail transport) The station code of Norbury railway station in England.


milk train

Familiarised from the early morning goods trains used to transport milk on the British railway system.

On the Western Region, milk trains work up to London from Penzance, Wellington (Som.), Weymouth, Whitland, Carmarthen and Wootton Bassett, each train making several intermediate stops to attach further milk tanks, and in some cases to shed them.

1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 154:

(rail transport) A goods train that carried milk, usually in tank wagons.


top-flag

[…] when he shall know it lies in vs,
To banish him, and then to call him home,
Twill make him vaile the topflag of his pride,
And feare to offend the meanest noble man.

1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The Double Marriage, Act II, Scene 1, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Edinburgh: John Ballantyne, 1812, Volume 8, p. 36,
Duke. Of whence now?
Sailor. Of Naples, Naples, Naples!
I see her top-flag, how she quarters Naples.

(nautical, obsolete) A flag flown from the top of the mast of a sailing ship.


sail under false colors

en-verb

sail under false colors (third-person singular simple present sails under false colors, present participle sailing under false colors, simple past and past participle sailed under false colors)

sails under false colors (present singular third-person)
sailing under false colors (participle present)
sailed under false colors (participle past)
sailed under false colors (past)

They were all not exactly sailing under false colours, but deceiving themselves as to their motives—and one another, to a lesser degree, by their actions.

1869, Annie Thomas, “Miss Vargrave Nearly Lands a Fish”, in False Colours. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 251:

(idiomatic, nautical, obsolete) To deceive or intentionally mystify.


water-breaker

(nautical) Alternative form of water breaker


water breaker

[…] I came on deck, put down my own stock behind the rudder head and well out of the coxswain’s reach, went forward to the water-breaker, and had a good deep drink of water, and then, and not till then, gave Hands the brandy.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Chapter 25”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

I had only one canvas water-breaker; that was a big one, too big for me to carry single-handed from the spring to the dinghy. I should only be able to fill it half full—say seven or eight gallons on each journey.

1926, Neville Shute, chapter 4, in Marazan, London: Cassell:

[…] under Hornblower’s eye the French captain and mate served out a biscuit of hard bread to each person in the boat, and filled the pannikin for each man in turn from the water breakers under the thwarts.

1950, C. S. Forester, “The Penalty of Failure”, in Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, London: Michael Joseph:

(nautical) A container for storing water on a ship or other watercraft.


driving car

The appearance of the new non-driving motor car conforms to that of the converted driving cars, and the car body design closely follows that adopted for London Transport 1938 surface stock; […].

1950 February, “Rolling Stock for London Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:

(rail transport) A control car; a non-engine rail car from which the train may be driven.


BRC

Vadodara Junction railway station
w:Vadodara Junction railway station

(rail transport) The station code of Vadodara Junction railway station in India.


chain shot

en-noun

chain shot (countable and uncountable, plural chain shots)

(historical, military, nautical) A projectile consisting of two cannon balls or half balls linked by a chain, fired from cannons mostly to attack spars and rigging.

kettingkogel

projectile consisting of two cannon balls linked by a chain


float-on float-off

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


OBC

(travel, cruising) Initialism of onboard credit.


reservation booking designator

reservation booking designator (plural reservation booking designators)

reservation booking designators (plural)

(aviation, travel) (in a reservation system) The letter used to signify a particular fare level.


jear

a jear-block


luffward

en-adv

luffward (comparative more luffward, superlative most luffward)

more luffward (comparative)
most luffward (superlative)

(nautical, archaic) Alternative form of loofward


vacuum brake

Compressed air is used for the operation of certain contactors, the sanders, the horn, and the re-fuelling equipment, but vacuum brakes are fitted to the locomotive.

1951 January, “Diesel-Electric Branch-Line Locomotive for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 71:

Consideration of recent pronouncements and predictions shows second thoughts to be practicable, in particular, on the technical decision for which the previous B.T.C. regime was most hotly criticised by experts - the adoption of the vacuum brake as standard for the modernised British Railways. [...] The original decision to retain the vacuum brake was justified largely on grounds of the intolerable operating convenience that would ensue from a changeover.

1963 January, “A second chance on brakes”, in Modern Railways, page 1:

(rail transport) A brake used on trains, working on the principle of keeping up a vacuum in a continuous pipe or pipes extending under the train, and in brake-cylinders connected to them under each vehicle, the air being sucked out by ejectors or pumps on the locomotive.


chart plotter

(nautical) A device that uses GPS to maintain a (normally digital) chart of a ship's course.


oarhole

From Middle English ore hol, equivalent to oar + hole.

Oarholes were sealed when not in use by wooden covers that rotated in place to keep out water. A slot cut into the oarhole allowed the blade of the oar to pass through the oarhole so oars could be deployed entirely inboard of the ship.

2016, William R. Short, Icelanders in the Viking Age:

(nautical) a slot or opening in the side of a galley or ship through which an oar is fitted


brown-water navy

en-noun

brown-water navy (plural brown-water navies)

Gunboats and other vessels with shallow drafts that could navigate inland waterways were part of the Civil War's brown-water navies.

2005, Clifford L. Linedecker, Civil War, A to Z: The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict, page 57:

(military, nautical, broadly) A naval force capable of military operations in riverine and coastal environments.

(military, nautical, strictly) A naval force capable of military operations only in inland waters.

(military, nautical) The portion of a naval force that is optimized for riverine operations.


take the helm

en-verb

take the helm (third-person singular simple present takes the helm, present participle taking the helm, simple past took the helm, past participle taken the helm)

takes the helm (present singular third-person)
taking the helm (participle present)
took the helm (past)
taken the helm (participle past)

Coordinate term: take the con

(nautical, literal) To assume responsibility for steering a ship.


SIPP

en-noun

SIPP (countable and uncountable, plural SIPPs)

(travel, car hire) Acronym of standard interline passenger procedure. A series of four-letter codes used to indicate a type of vehicle.


where away

(nautical) A query uttered by the officer of the deck as to the direction of an object sighted by the lookout.


forebridge

The Carmania was struck by a shell which passed through the cabin under the forebridge and started a fire, in consequence of which the forebridge had to be abandoned, no water being available to extinguish the flames owing to the fire main having been shot through.

1916, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume 79, page 452:

The forebridge itself was a polyhedral room with so many 'walls' that it was almost spherical, with a diameter of about a hundred meters.

2003, Viktoria Wealth, Aadorn Universe of Challenges, page 152:

The masts, each with two large military tops, gave a rather impressive profile, while the modified arrrangement of forebridge and conning tower introduced in the first six ships gave them a unique appearance.

2013, R A Burt, British Battleships 1889-1904, →ISBN:

(nautical) A raised platform or pilothouse at the front of the bridge.


two lamps burning and no ship at sea

en-adjective

two lamps burning and no ship at sea (not comparable)

(New England, nautical, idiomatic) Said of an unwisely or overly extravagant person.


point-to-point

From point (“individual element in a larger whole; specific location or place; topic of discussion or debate”) + to + point.

In the interests of evening out the demand on locomotive power throughout the run, some adjustment of point-to-point timings might be worth while, especially an easing of the timing from Darlington to York.

1961 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 210:

Travelling directly from a starting point to an ending point, or from one point to another in a series of points without passing through any intermediate points.

(transport) Travelling directly from source to destination without passing through a hub.


on the bow

(nautical) Within 45° of the point right ahead.


bowsie

(sailing) A simple device with three holes used for tensioning stays on boats or guy-lines on tents.


ooch

en-verb

ooch (third-person singular simple present ooches, present participle ooching, simple past and past participle ooched)

ooches (present singular third-person)
ooching (participle present)
ooched (participle past)
ooched (past)

The verb is possibly a variant of scooch or scoot, or an onomatopoeia representing the movement. The noun is possibly derived from the verb.

liikauttaa

(transitive) to move or slide (oneself or someone, or something) by a small amount

But if you are racing a boat without a chute, especially a single-hander, ooching is usually more effective.

1977, Yacht Racing, volume 16, Chicago, Ill.: One-Design Yachtsman, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46, column 2:

Ooching involves the lower haIf of the body and the board. By pushing the board back and forth in small places, by minimal extension and retraction of the knees, the planing condition can be induced or enhanced.

1985, Sail Boarder International, volume 5, number 4, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.: Surfer Publishing Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75:

You go below to check on Bud and review the racing rules. Prohibited actions include: sculling, pumping, and ooching.

1989, Anne Lorimer Sirna, ChapWoman’s Alwomanac: Pilot Handling throughout the Year, Camden, Me.: Seven Seas Press, →ISBN, page 34:

Moving the trunk of the body forward and backwards, even in strong winds, can flap the leech and increase the sail's drive (ooching).

2013, Bryan Willis, “Means of Propulsion”, in The Rules in Practice: 2013–2016, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Nautical, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 84:

(sailing) To propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one's body back and forth.

sysätä

(intransitive) to propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one’s body back and forth


ooch

Presumably, this means that one may ooch only to initiate surfing or planing and that, if challenged, one must be prepared to defend one's ooching behavior in light of the conditions and the wave pattern. Potential problems: How many ooches are permitted per wave?

I suspect it will take an ooch or two on the boom to get the upper batten to clear.

1999 June, Chuck Paine, “Design”, in Yachting, volume 185, number 6, page 56:

(sailing) An act of propelling a boat or sailboard forward by rocking one's body.

sysäys

act of propelling a boat or sailboard forward by rocking one’s body


stock tackle

(nautical) Tackle used in hoisting an anchor on board ship to keep its stock clear of the ship's side.


neighborhood electric vehicle

en-noun

neighborhood electric vehicle (plural neighborhood electric vehicles)

From neighborhood + electric vehicle. From being a vehicle class appropriate for local (neighborhood) use, but not suitable for longer distances (such as metropolitan areas), or high speeds (such as expressways), that is electrically powered.

(automotive) (US) A low-speed low-weight short-range vehicle, sometimes referred to as street-legal glorified all-electric golf carts

club car

a similar vehicle used to shuttle people around shopping mall and airport concourses


new energy vehicle

new energy vehicle (plural new energy vehicles)

plug-in electric vehicle
plug-in electric vehicle

plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

battery electric vehicle
battery electric vehicle

(China, automotive) A plug-in electric vehicle, either a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle or an all-electric plug-in battery electric vehicle


outdraft

The outdraft is like a funnel, pulling the boat and tow out into the river, away from the lock and toward the dam.

2004, Virginia Thorndike, On Tugboats, page 290:

Only a person stationed at the front of the lead barge or on one of the assist boats could have alerted the captain to the moment when the tow hit the outdraft.

2017, Diane Wood, Larry Alexander v. Ingram Barge Company:

(nautical) An outward current, often specifically a river current pulling toward a downstream dam.


pay train

(rail transport, now historical, from pay (noun)) A train carrying people’s wages.

Besides, is not the pay-train from Leeds disgorging a clutch of poets every lunch time, to read authentic texts aloud?

1977, Angela Carter, “The Paris of the North”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 216:

Why was there not more talk about destaffing, pay trains, or simplified signalling or single-tracking?

2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:

(rail transport, from pay (verb)) A train for which tickets are bought on board rather than at the station beforehand.


hurricane deck

(nautical) A cross-deck about amidships, a bridge-deck or bridge: the upper light deck of a passenger-steamer.


apoop

Thus, she made as much lee-way as head-way, could get along very nearly as fast with the wind ahead as when it was apoop, and was particularly great in a calm.

1839, Washington Irving, A History of New York:


deperm

en-verb

deperm (third-person singular simple present deperms, present participle deperming, simple past and past participle depermed)

deperms (present singular third-person)
deperming (participle present)
depermed (participle past)
depermed (past)

From de- (prefix indicating removal or reversal) + perm(anent magnet).

prefix

Vessels wiped and depermed as outlined above were found to age towards their original state, so the processes as described were only effective for comparatively short periods and had to be repeated at regular intervals.

1948, The School Science Review: A Magazine for Science Teachers, volume 30, London: John Murray for the Science Masters' Association and the Association of Women Science Teachers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:

Our present system deperms more reliably and is arranged to deperm the sensor each time the power source for the magnetometer is turned on.

1964 June, Manual for Fluxgate Ferrite Magnetometer (CRSR; 172), Ithaca, N.Y.: Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, →OCLC, page 6:

When it is not possible to deperm the assembly below 95% of the post exposure magnitude, ascertain if the component contains parts with permanent magnets such as relays which would not deperm in the 50 gauss field.

1966 April, C[hester] L. Parsons, C. A. Harris, “Appendix C: Test Procedure”, in IMP-I Spacecraft Magnetic Test Program (NASA Technical Note; D-3376), Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-03-12, page 33:

Deperming the boards individually lead to a significant decrease in the magnetic moment of the whole unit, this was then repeated on all units.

2008, M. Ludlam et al., “The THEMIS Magnetic Cleanliness Program”, in J[ames] L. Burch, V[assilis] Angelopoulos, editors, The THEMIS Mission: […], [New York, N.Y.]: Springer Science+Business Media, published 2009, →DOI, →ISBN, section 4 (Unit Testing), page 176:

(transitive, chiefly nautical) To degauss or demagnetize; especially, to degauss a ship by dragging a large powered electrical cable along its side.


deperm

Fortunately a very pronounced extension of life was found to be possible for wipes and deperms by making the initial current very strong so that, for example, a positive component was made a larger negative one before being reduced to zero […]

One interesting feature of the S/N 008A and S/N 009 data is that the residual moment after deperms one through three increased from 735 to 870 pole-cm for S/N 008A, but decreased from 854 to 659 pole-cm for S/N 009.

1968 December 23, A. W. Fihelly, “Appendix III: Memorandum by A. W. Fihelly re SNAP-19 S/N 009 Magnetic Moments Measurement”, in W[illia]m S. West, J. Michael Holman, Herbert W. Bilsky, Techniques for Achieving Magnetic Cleanliness on Deep-space Missions: A Report Covering Task III Effort under the Study: NASA Evaluation with Models of Optimized Nuclear Spacecraft (NEW MOONS), Greenbelt, Md.: Goddard Space Flight Center, published April 1969, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-03-03, pages III-3–III-4:

(chiefly nautical) The act or process of deperming.


brake block

There are two brake blocks per wheel of the locomotive, and each brake block is actuated by its own cylinder, which obviates rigging (except to the hand parking brake).

1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 124:

Braking is by non-metallic brake blocks throughout, two to each wheel.

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

(rail transport) A block fitted to locomotives or rolling stock, which rubs on the steel tyre of the wheel when the brake is applied.


pigstick

Above the truck there is frequently a slender vertical extension of the mast, called a pigstick.

1959, The Bluejackets' Manual, volume 15, page 198:

Haul away, keeping strain on both parts of the halyard so that the pigstick remains vertical as it goes up and doesn't foul the spreaders.

Pull the flag up with the hauling part, then tighten the downhaul part to bring the pigstick vertical.

1989, Roger C. Taylor, Knowing the ropes: a sailor's guide to selecting, rigging, and handling lines aboard:

As the owner of this sailboat, I fuss about on deck, lashing down oars and fishing rods, pigsticks and awnings, for what might be a bouncy overnight passage.

1997 July, Yachting, volume 181, number 7, page 70:

(nautical) A staff that carries a flag or pennant above the mast of a sailboat.


hawser-laid

(nautical, of rope) Consisting of three strands twisted together, usually right-handed (turning in a clockwise direction).


tap the admiral

en-verb

tap the admiral (third-person singular simple present taps the admiral, present participle tapping the admiral, simple past and past participle tapped the admiral)

taps the admiral (present singular third-person)
tapping the admiral (participle present)
tapped the admiral (participle past)
tapped the admiral (past)

John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) mentions a tale of this having been done with the rum cask in which Lord Nelson's body was brought to England.

(nautical, slang) To steal some liquor from a cask that is in storage or transit.


sun kink

(US, rail transport) A buckle in railroad track caused by extremely hot weather, which could cause a train to derail.


dredgeboat

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


trip slip

(US, railways) A strip of paper on which a conductor must punch a hole when a fare is taken.


heave the log

heave the log (third-person singular simple present heaves the log, present participle heaving the log, simple past and past participle heaved the log)

heaves the log (present singular third-person)
heaving the log (participle present)
heaved the log (participle past)
heaved the log (past)

(nautical) To determine the speed of a ship by logline and glass.


Edsel

The automobile marque is named after Edsel Ford (1893–1943), son of Henry Ford. Compare German Etzel.

(historical, automotive) An automobile marque that was planned, manufactured, and launched with great advertising hype by the Ford Motor Company in September 1957, but was a notorious failure.


flog someone round the fleet

flog someone round the fleet (third-person singular simple present flogs someone round the fleet, present participle flogging someone round the fleet, simple past and past participle flogged someone round the fleet)

flogs someone round the fleet (present singular third-person)
flogging someone round the fleet (participle present)
flogged someone round the fleet (participle past)
flogged someone round the fleet (past)

(nautical, historical) To row a prisoner around the fleet, where he would receive a number of lashes at each ship in turn, as a penalty for serious offences.


Beyer-Garratt

From Beyer + Garratt, Beyer referring to the manufacturer Beyer Peacock & Co..

(rail transport) synonym of Garratt, a type of articulated steam locomotive.


control car

(railways) A non-powered railroad car from which the train may be controlled - equipped with a driver's cabin, front lights and other equipment required for a locomotive, located at the end of the train opposite to that of the locomotive. This arrangement allows the train to be safely driven into both directions at full speed without changing the configuration of the train.


high-speed rail

(rail transport) A type of rail transport that operates significantly faster than traditional rail traffic, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.


heel-and-toe

(attributive, automotive) An advanced driving technique that involves operating the throttle and brake pedals simultaneously with the right foot, facilitating normal activation of the clutch with the left foot.

It is most essential on a passage where the watches are heel and toe, four on, four off, that the watch below be a time of real rest.

1965, Boating (volume 18, numbers 1-6, page 28)

Back when we'd started the heel-and-toe watches, I'd offset the schedule six hours in order to have both squadrons up and ready during the initial attack.

2011, Phil Geusz, No Victory Won, page 354:

(nautical, military) Of a system of watches: comprising equal-length periods on and off watch.


starting handle

en-noun

starting handle (plural starting handles)

(automotive, dated) a crank handle fitted to or supplied with older vehicles for the purpose of starting the engine, even if fitted with a starter motor.


dromometer

(nautical, historical) An instrument affixed to the side of a ship, measuring the distance travelled.


SHLLV

(space science, transport) Initialism of Super Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle.


HLLV

(space science, transport) Initialism of Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle.


trunk line

Coordinate term: mainline

But the states were generally concerned with the location of trunk lines and left it to cities and counties to worry about branch lines.

1987, William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court:

(rail transport) A main railway line which usually forms the backbone of a rail network.


viol block

(nautical) A large single block big enough to reeve a small hawse.


floating dock

(nautical) a dry dock which can float, and is submersible when a ship is entering or leaving it.


shade tree mechanic

shade tree mechanic (plural shade tree mechanics)

From stereotypically working not in a garage but under a spreading tree.

(automotive) A person who repairs cars as a hobby.


shot garland

Kydd went to the shot garland around the main hatch and rolled a ball on to the cradle.

2002, Julian Stockwin, Kydd: A Naval Adventure, →ISBN, page 214:

One 12 -pound shot was found resting in the shot garland in the bow and the other under the forward deck.

2002, John R. Bratten, The Gondola Philadelphia and the Battle of Lake Champlain, →ISBN, page 121:

A disaffected sailor is able to lift a cannon ball out of a shot garland and allow it to decide for itself what damage it will do.

2013, William Golding, To the Ends of the Earth, →ISBN:

(nautical) A wooden or rope frame for holding shot, attached to the coamings or ledges of the deck of a ship.


danger signal

2005, "Practical Railway Engineering" by Clifford F. Bonnett, Imperial College Press →ISBN https://books.google.no/books?id=qcMgBJ1exfIC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=%22at+a+danger+signal%22&source=bl&ots=c4Rl2aryKd&sig=vhZYJY8AkP63OAbCws6GS9882q4&hl=no&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjg2OSL19PZAhXJJMAKHQxdA2sQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=%22at%20a%20danger%20signal%22&f=false
On a train travelling at say 40 miles per hour a driver would have to react quite quickly to bring his train to a halt at a danger signal even if he could see that signal half a mile away.

(rail transport) A signal set at danger and showing a red light or other stop indication, which a train driver must not pass until it changes or until manually cleared past the signal by a dispatcher.


opposed cylinder

opposed cylinder (plural opposed cylinders)

(automotive) A type of engine cylinder, with two pistons, horizontally opposed with each other, and the combustion chamber sitting centrally between the two pistons.


OPOC

opposed cylinder
opposed cylinder#English

(automotive) Abbreviation of opposed cylinder.


OPOC

opposed piston opposed cylinder
opposed piston opposed cylinder#English

(automotive) Acronym of opposed piston opposed cylinder.


jeep carrier

(military, nautical, aviation) A general purpose aircraft carrier, used in a variety of ways (hence 'general purpose', "GP" or jeep), such as aircraft transport ship, invasion support airstrip, ocean patrol airstrip, fleet/convoy defense airstrip. They were used to alleviate demands made on fleet carriers which have higher levels of defensive capabilities and underway speeds able to keep up with the battle fleet.


(automotive) A performance measure for automobiles, that either measures elapsed time, or elapsed distance. The automobile starts from a standing start, accelerates to 60 mph (roughly 100 km/h), and then brakes to a stop.


(automotive) A performance measure for automobiles that measures elapsed time; the time taken for an automobile that starts from a standing start to accelerate to 60 miles per hour (roughly 100 km/h).


(automotive) A performance measure for automobiles, that measures elapsed distance. The automobile travelling at 60 mph (roughly 100 km/h) brakes to a stop, giving a stopping distance or braking distance, depending on measurement method.


(automotive, Australia) A performance measure for automobiles, that measures elapsed time. The time taken for an automobile that starts from a standing start, and accelerates to 100 km/h (roughly 60 mph).

(automotive, US) A performance measure for automobiles, that measures elapsed time. The time taken for an automobile that starts from a standing start, and accelerates to 100 mph (roughly 160 km/h).


CUV

sport utility vehicle
sport utility vehicle#English

(automotive) Initialism of compact sport utility vehicle.

(automotive) Initialism of compact crossover sport utility vehicle or compact crossover utility vehicle.

crossover utility vehicle
w:en:crossover utility vehicle

(automotive) Alternative form of XUV (crossover utility vehicle or crossover sport utility vehicle)


wiring harness

wiring harness (plural wiring harnesses)

Remove and discard cable straps (45) securing front wiring harness (11) to main wiring harness (10) and to fuel cutoff control.

1974, Department of the Army, Direct Support and General Support Maintenance Manual for Carrier, Guided Missile Equipment, Self-propelled, page 4-24:

Today, an automobile assembled in the United States could have a Japanese-built engine, a French transmission, a wiring-harness assembly from Mexico, electrical parts from Brazil, and a radio from Taiwan.

1985, International Trade Commission, The Internationalization of the Automobile Industry and Its Effects on the U.S. Automobile Industry, page vii:

(automotive, electronics) A bundle of insulated wires, often held together with straps or other connectors, that transmit signals or electrical current within a vehicle, electronic device, etc., or between them.


cat-rigged

(nautical) Having one great fore-and-aft mainsail spread by a gaff at the head and a boom at the foot, for smooth water only.


soft tommy

(UK, nautical, slang, obsolete) Soft bread, as opposed to hardtack or sea biscuit.


HX

en-verb

HX (third-person singular simple present HXs, present participle HXing, simple past and past participle HXed)

HXs (present singular third-person)
HXing (participle present)
HXed (participle past)
HXed (past)

From the GDS code that shows on the booking against the affected segment.

Hurry and issue the ticket or the airline will HX the reservation.

The airline oversold and they have HXed the passenger's booking.

(aviation, travel, informal, abbreviation) (of an airline) to have an airline booking cancelled by the airline.


HSC

Coordinate term: HS

(nautical) Initialism of high speed craft.. A motor vessel watercraft capable of high speed traversals


mud scow

(nautical) A flat barge used for transporting mud from a dredger


Rock Island

The island near Trinidad is named for its physical characteristics.

(rail transport) Short for the Rock Island Line, or Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.


craftmaster

(US, nautical) A senior enlisted sailor qualified to operate small vessels and support craft.


LaSalle

en-prop

LaSalle (countable and uncountable, plural LaSalles)

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


off-side rule

The computer-programming sense was coined by British computer scientist Peter Landin in 1966 and named after the rule in football.

coin

An off-side rule would work splendidly at even the most complex junctions.

According to the off-side rule, a priority vehicle relative to the driver's own vehicle is one which approaches on the nearest carriageway of the crossing road.

1969, Australian Road Research - Volume 4, page 15:

In France and Switzerland at the present time it is traffic coming from the right (that is to say, the near side) which has priority, but there are many advocates of a change to an “off-side rule”.

2017, Reg Shaw, Teach Yourself Cycling: The classic guide to life on two wheels, →ISBN:

(traffic engineering) A system that gives right-of-way at an intersection to traffic approaching from the side on which one is not driving.


roadholding

(automotive) The degree to which a motor vehicle maintains a stable "grip" on the road surface, without tilting, skidding, etc.


bodystyle

(automotive) A style of vehicle body (such as sedan/saloon versus coupe/coupé, stakebody versus box truck, and so on).


tramp trade

(shipping) The commercial activity of a tramp steamer.


close reach

We're sailing on a close reach.

(nautical) The point of sail where the wind is blowing just ahead of the beam of the vessel


close reach

en-verb

close reach (third-person singular simple present close reaches, present participle close reaching, simple past and past participle close reached)

close reaches (present singular third-person)
close reaching (participle present)
close reached (participle past)
close reached (past)


square rig

(nautical) A sailing rig consisting of sails set mainly perpendicular to the line of the keel.


dayboard

(nautical) A shape affixed to the top of a sea mark or other aid to navigation (ATON) to indicate its status by day.


tenderman

How much do you think a tenderman should be paid per day? If a roe fisherman can make $20,000 on one day should the tenderman be paid at a rate per ton handled rather than so much per day?

1979, Western Fisheries - Volume 98, page 7:

Fishers would not have realized any gains in 1964 if shoreworkers and tendermen had not voted to cancel their newly negotiated agreements in order to support the demands of the net fleet.

1996, Alicja Muszynski, Cheap Wage Labour: Race and Gender in the Fisheries of British Columbia, →ISBN:

Despite the crisis, the adrenaline that must have been feeding his own alarm, Tim managed to maintain his control and spoke in a subdued tone, assuring the tenderman and all of us that things would be okay.

2017, Dave Atcheson, Dead Reckoning, →ISBN:

(nautical) A person who works on a tender.


sea area

(UK, nautical) Any of the 31 areas of sea, surrounding the British Isles, that are used in the Shipping Forecast


replacing switch

en-noun

replacing switch (plural replacing switches)

(railways) A pair of iron plates fitting over the rails, used as a bridge to replace on the track derailed railway stock.


weather anchor

[…] the weather anchor is likelier to go clear of the ship than the lee one […]

1791, William Hutchinson, A Treatise Founded Upon Philosophical and Rational Principles:

(nautical) The anchor lying to windward.


PPBM

(aviation, travel) Positive Passenger Bag Match. An airline system used to ensure that baggage is not loaded on an aircraft if the passenger does not board.


depper

en-adjective

depper (comparative more depper, superlative most depper)

more depper (comparative)
most depper (superlative)

Don't be that one guy who shows up to boot camp in his depper clothes.

(US, military, nautical, slang) Of or pertaining to the Delayed Entry Program.


depper

The recruiting officer led the deppers outside to do PT in the hot sun.

(US, military, nautical, slang) A member of the Delayed Entry Program.


hub-and-spoke

We had no NATO counterpart in the Pacific, only a series of "hub and spoke" bilateral alliances, so we always worked for greater South Korean-Japanese cooperation[…]

2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 357:

(transport, networking) Being or relating to a topology, whether for the physical distribution of goods or for telecommunications, that has a central "hub" connecting a number of outlying "spokes".


happy landings

en-noun

happy landings pl (normally plural, singular happy landing)

We want our airplane pilots to anticipate failed engines as well as happy landings.

2009, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, →ISBN, page 198:

Happy landings: every minute of every hour of every day, an average of 38 people touch down at Orlando airport, gateway to the centre of the Sunshine State.

2017 January 20, Simon Calder, “Discover the other side of Florida – Kissimmee”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2018-06-05:

(travel, especially aviation) Successful arrivals on land (by air or water), without any untoward incidents.


ULEZ

The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) replaced the T-Charge on 8 April 2019. It operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year, within the same area as the Congestion Charge zone.

2019 April 8, “ULEZ: Where and when”, in Mayor of London, archived from the original on 2019-04-14:

You’ll probably have heard about London’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) – it’s a government initiative designed to improve air quality in the highly polluted city-centre.

2020 April 22, Andrew Woodhouse, “ULEZ, LEZ and CAZ: UK low emission zones explained”, in Auto Trader:

Whether a vehicle meets ULEZ standards has become very important to used car buyers.

2020 June 7, James Ruppert, “City slickers: Interesting used cars exempt from the ULEZ”, in Autocar:

(UK, transport) Acronym of ultra low emission zone, a place in central London subject to stringent exhaust emission standards for motor vehicles.

ultra low emission zone

former surcharge for higher-emission vehicles


BBG

(military, nautical) Initialism of guided-missile battleship (a battleship equipped with cruise missiles as one of its primary armaments).

guided-missile battleship

(military, nautical) Abbreviation of battleship battle group.


miss stays

en-verb

miss stays (third-person singular simple present misses stays, present participle missing stays, simple past and past participle missed stays)

misses stays (present singular third-person)
missing stays (participle present)
missed stays (participle past)
missed stays (past)

(nautical) To fail in going about from one tack to another.


lazy jacks

(nautical, sailing) A type of running rigging to assist in handling a fore-and-aft-rigged sail during reefing and furling; consist of a network of cordage which is rigged to a point on the mast and to a series of points on either side of the boom.


nail sickness

(roofing, nautical) The degradation of the roofing nails of a house or the nails of a boat, necessitating repair.


cast anchor

cast anchor (third-person singular simple present casts anchor, present participle casting anchor, simple past and past participle cast anchor)

casts anchor (present singular third-person)
casting anchor (participle present)
cast anchor (participle past)
cast anchor (past)

(nautical) To drop anchor or otherwise moor a ship.


under canvas

(nautical) Having the sails unfurled; under sail.


lazy painter

(nautical) A small painter for use in fine weather only.


sooji-mooji

(nautical, archaic, slang) A composition of caustic soda and quicklime for cleaning off old paint, varnish, etc.


Space Launcher System

(transport, space science, historical) A 1960s-era design program of the United States Air Force.


donut spare

(automotive) A type of spare tire. The undersized spare wheel (tire and rim) provided by automotive manufacturers in lieu of a full-sized tire, for use in emergencies, when one of the regular ones can no longer be used.


mooring ring

(nautical) A ring of metal attached to a dock to which boats may be attached by a rope.


relieving tackle

en-noun

relieving tackle (plural relieving tackles)

(nautical) A temporary tackle attached to the tiller of a vessel during a storm.


rap-full

(nautical) Full of wind; used of sails when close-hauled.


change tack

en-verb

change tack (third-person singular simple present changes tack, present participle changing tack, simple past and past participle changed tack)

changes tack (present singular third-person)
changing tack (participle present)
changed tack (participle past)
changed tack (past)


passimeter

Passengers were meant to flow past a passimeter on either side, as when the water of a fast-flowing river meets a rock. They usually had the choice of two queues, which must have been agonising because the one you pick is always the slowest. The queues were slowed down by the turnstiles that frequently operated in conjunction with the ticket booths, but these would give way to automatic ticket gates, [...]

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 213:

(rail transport) A turnstile operated from a ticket booth or by a ticket machine.


smallcraft

The hotel nightlights shine behind the drawn venetian blinds and the slatted patterns on the curbside cars give them the look of anchored smallcraft with lapstrake hulls.

1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 188:


passenger seat

Coordinate term: driver's seat

(automotive) A seat in a vehicle for a passenger, especially the front seat next to the driver in a motor vehicle.


lever frame

All layout remodelling and resignalling at Stafford has already been finished; the colour-light signals, with their route-indicators, and the power-operated points are operated from the lever frames of existing signalboxes.

1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The L.M.R. electrification”, in Modern Railways, page 220:

(rail transport) A frame in a signal box in which levers that operate signals and points are mounted.


stand on

stand on (third-person singular simple present stands on, present participle standing on, simple past and past participle stood on)

stands on (present singular third-person)
standing on (participle present)
stood on (participle past)
stood on (past)

(nautical) To continue following the same course.


karozzin

en-noun

karozzin (plural karozzins or karozzini)

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

der

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Fiddler's Green

From 19th-century English maritime folklore.

Sam Tyler: Where to now?
Gene Hunt: Fiddler's Green.
Sam Tyler: I hope that's the name of a pub.

2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:

(nautical, folklore) A legendary afterlife for retired sailors, where there is perpetual mirth, fiddle music, and dancing.

(nautical, slang, dated) A place of frolic on shore.


uniball

(automotive, aviation) A spherical bearing.


monk's seam

(nautical) A strong seam formed by laying the selvage-edges of two pieces of canvas over each other and stitching on each side and down the middle.


working timetable

en-noun

working timetable (plural working timetables)

(rail transport, UK) A set of timetables for the internal use of railway operating staff, which shows all planned train movements in a given area.


work train

(rail transport) A train run for the purpose of maintenance and repair of railway track.


trap points

The single-tank wagon ran away from a siding at Hanson's cement works, heading downhill towards Horrocksford Junction [...]. At Horrocksford Junction the wagon was derailed by a set of trap points, stopping clear of the main line.

2020 April 22, “RAIB investigates Clitheroe runaway”, in Rail, page 23:

(rail transport, UK) A set of facing points at the end of a crossing loop or side track parallel to a mainline which will direct a train into a sand drag if the signal on that line is passed at danger, thus preventing the train running onto the main line.


buffer stop

(rail transport, UK) a device installed at the end of a railway line or siding, which is intended to stop trains and other rail vehicles going any further.


sand drag

Sand drags are usually laid in as an extension of trap sidings or of lines from catch-points. The rails are boxed in for some distance on either side, and the box is filled with sand, or, preferably, coarse gravel, the intention being, as the name implies, that the sand will act as a drag, and help bring the runaway train or vehicles to rest before they derail and cause serious damage.

1941 August, “The Why and the Wherefore: Sand Drags”, in Railway Magazine, page 382:

The brakes were applied immediately, but the engine ran into a sand drag at approximately 20 m.p.h., plunged down the embankment, and turned over on its side at the bottom.

1952 October, “Notes and News: Derailment near Shawford”, in Railway Magazine, page 710:

Should any driver attempt to pass the Belmont starter signals at danger, he would find his train in the sand drag.

1978, Alan A. Jackson, London's Local Railways, David & Charles, page 154:

(rail transport, UK) A pile of sand or earth at the end of a siding or bay platform, intended to stop trains that overrun or pass through trap points set for a siding.


towerman

(rail transport, US) a person employed in a railroad switch tower to control and direct the movement of cars and trains.


classification yard

classification yard (plural classification yards)

(rail transport, US) a railroad yard where incoming freight trains are sorted into various sidings.


hump yard

New works in hand at and near Basle include a mechanised hump yard at Muttenz for outwards international freight to relieve Basle Wolf yard, which has been handling such traffic, [...].

1963 January, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland”, in Modern Railways, page 62:

(rail transport) a classification yard or marshalling yard which has a hump over which trains are shunted, the vehicles then running on their own by gravity into various sidings.


container flat

(rail transport) a flat wagon designed to carry international shipping containers.


flat wagon

Two flat wagons carrying tanks were also seen here.

1944 January and February, “Light Railways in Derbyshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 25:

One train ferry wagon, with the inscription "On hire to L.N.E.R.," was carrying British prisoners; and another odd sight was an L.N.E.R. container on a German flat wagon, offering "Door to Door Transport."

1946 March and April, “Notes and News: Train Watching in a P.O.W. Camp”, in Railway Magazine, page 117:

(rail transport, UK) An open railway wagon without sides and roof, or with very low sides.


container wagon

container wagon (plural container wagons)

(rail transport, UK) a flat wagon designed to carry international shipping containers.


leading line

(nautical) An imaginary line between two objects that can be used to chart a safe course in a difficult situation.


well car

(rail transport, US) an open low-sided freight car with a lowered body.


track circuit

(rail transport) an electrical circuit in a railway track used for signalling purposes.


CWR

(rail transport) Initialism of continuous welded rail.


flange lubricator

flange lubricator (plural flange lubricators)

(rail transport) a device installed in order to reduce wear to both wheel flanges and the rails in the railway track.


flange greaser

flange lubricator
flange lubricator#English

(rail transport) synonym of flange lubricator


axle counter

Twenty-seven axle counters have been installed on the 49-mile East Suffolk Line, to improve level crossing safety and reduce waiting times at user-worked crossings. The Lowestoft-Ipswich line has 28 user-worked crossing/footpath level crossings where the signaller must give permission for people to cross. [...] Signallers use the axle counters to authorise users to cross at the user-worked crossings.

2020 June 17, “Network News: Signalling upgrade in East Suffolk”, in Rail, page 21:

(rail transport) A safety device fitted to railway track which counts the axles in a train as it passes over it. A check is carried out when the train passes the next axle counter to make sure the train is still complete.


tokenless block

(rail transport) a type of signalling system on a single-track line which dispenses with the need for a train to carry a token (sense 21).


signal gantry

(rail transport) a structure erected over one or more railway tracks, carrying one or more signals. Smaller structures usually have a single support, and larger structures are supported on both sides.


LIRR

Long Island Rail Road
w:en:Long Island Rail Road

(rail transport) abbreviation of Long Island Rail Road.


team track

(rail transport, US) a railroad siding where customers can load and unload freight cars themselves.


road switcher

(rail transport, US) a diesel locomotive that combines the duties of a switcher with those of a locomotive hauling trains from one place to another.


short line

(rail transport, US) alternative form of shortline.


cab unit

(rail transport, US) a diesel or electric locomotive with a full-width body for its entire length.


private siding

(rail transport) a railway siding owned by a company, also possibly served by their own locomotive, which is connected to and served by a railway, but is not part of the railway's infrastructure.


crossing keeper

crossing keeper (plural crossing keepers)

All these level crossings have hand-operated gates, and are manned by crossing-keepers.

1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619:

(rail transport) A member of railway staff who looks after a level crossing.


bow collector

(rail transport) a form of current collector in the shape of a bow or loop mounted on the roof of a train or tram.


hood unit

(rail transport, US) a diesel locomotive with a body that is less than full width, apart from the cab.


stepside

en-adj

stepside (comparative more stepside, superlative most stepside)

more stepside (comparative)
most stepside (superlative)

(automotive) With the fenders and wheel wells outside of the main body shell.


cab forward

(rail transport) a design of steam locomotive with the cab at the front, mainly built for the Southern Pacific Railroad, which at one time had a large fleet of oil-fired articulated locomotives.


Pennsy

[page 32, caption] Pennsy's postwar Q2 employed the duplex-drive layout to ease the main-rod load and improve steam distribution on what otherwise would have been the 4-10-4 wheel arrangement.
[page112] The role of unifying the insolvents into a truly national system fell to U.S.-born and Pennsy-trained Sir Henry Thornton (who went to Canada via the Long Island and England's Great Eastern).

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., pages 32, 112:

(rail transport, dated) a nickname for the Pennsylvania Railroad.


track pan

TWENTY-NINE track pan water stations, located at strategic points on the Main Line and on the Michigan Central, play an important part in keeping New York Central Railroad's traffic speeding without the delay caused by locomotives stopping.

1945, Locomotive Engineers Journal - Volume 79:

The New York Central Railroad was the first railway in the U.S.A. to use water troughs, or track pans, as they are called in America.

1949 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: Water Troughs in the U.S.A.”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:

In 1870 at Montrose, N.Y., the New York Central made the first installation of a track pan and scoop to permit locomotives to take water on the fly. Since these installations invariably were in tiny communities, and since they permitted locomotives literally to “jerk water”

1979, The Train Dispatcher - Volumes 61-62, page 49:

Towns with track pans no longer had as many trains stop there, and they became derisively known as “jerkwater” towns, where the trains would jerk water and just keep on going.

2016, Kevin EuDaly, Mike Schafer, Steve Jessup, The Complete Book of North American Railroading, page 335:

(rail transport, US) a long trough placed between the rails in a railroad track, which enabled a steam locomotive to replenish its water supply without stopping by lowering a scoop.


water trough

From Middle English water trouȝ, equivalent to water + trough. Cognate with West Frisian wettertroch (“water trough”), Dutch watertrog (“water trough”), German Wassertrog (“water trough”), Danish vandtrug (“water trough”), Swedish vattentrog (“water trough”).

cog

No water troughs are provided on any part of the Southern Railway. Even on the West of England and Bournemouth main lines, the tenders of the locomotives can carry sufficient water for the longest regular non-stop runs, such as London to Bournemouth (107.9 miles), London to Salisbury (83.8 miles), and Salisbury to Exeter (88 miles).

1946 November and December, “The Why and The Wherefore: Water Troughs on the S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 391:

(rail transport, UK) a long trough placed between the rails in a railway track, which enabled a steam locomotive to replenish its water supply without stopping by lowering a scoop. They were removed at the end of steam train operation.


overlanded

Overlanded cargo may be further defined as cargo which has been discharged at a port for which it was not intended according to the ship's manifest.

2014, Peter Brodie, Commercial Shipping Handbook, third edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 280:

(shipping, of cargo) Exceeding the originally declared shipped quantity.


TOFC

This explains the railroads' enthusiasm for the astonishing growth of trailer-on-flat-car traffic (T.O.F.C., or more commonly "piggyback").

1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 681:

(rail transport, US) Initialism of trailer on flatcar. (referring to semi-trailers transported by train)


steam generator

en-noun

steam generator (plural steam generators)

[...] during those ghastly winters of the late 1940's when the smallish steam generators of early diesel passenger units proved inadequate …[...]

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 8:

(rail transport) a type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.


diesel locomotive

diesel locomotive (plural diesel locomotives)

(rail transport) a locomotive powered by a diesel engine, probably the most common type of locomotive today.


sectionman

1916, Annual Report of the Public Utilities Commission, State of Maine, Sentinel Publishing Company https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hi1FAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA56&lpg=RA2-PA56&dq=%22sectionman%22&source=bl&ots=i9BCwYgdC9&sig=d72pK2gH6efsfs4_I_v6M619s-g&hl=no&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT1uqotJ_dAhXCCMAKHfhZCTE4ChDoATAEegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=%22sectionman%22&f=false
... a sectionman was killed when his motor velocipede was struck by an extra freight on a curve; a sectionman was crushed between two cars when working on a track left unprotected; a sectionman was struck by a shifting engine; …

Sectionmen step back to admire a T&P Texas in West Texas as the 2-10-4 comes charging up bad Baird Hill.

1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co. (photo caption)

Being on the engine when the engineer applied the brakes I asked why he was stopping and he said "there's a sectionman fighting with a wolf". So I backed up to the spot and the fireman and I jumped off with pick and shaker bar. I hit the wolf on the head with the pick and fireman Grier hit it with the shaker bar. This finished the wolf.

2013, Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives, by Peter Unwin, Dundum, →ISBN:

(rail transport, US, Canada) A railroad worker who maintains and patrols the track.


Geep

From GP (general purpose locomotive), usually spelt with a capital G.

Norfolk & Western was a workhorse of another strain. It dieselized in theory if not in practice a couple of decades before the first Geep hit the property.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:

(rail transport, informal) a nickname for the EMD GP series diesel locomotives.


Nickel Plate Road

(rail transport, informal) (or more simply, Nickel Plate) A name given to, and actually used by, the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad.


tractive effort

tractive effort (plural tractive efforts)

Consequently, they developed articulateds capable of exerting 7500 drawbar horsepower or a starting tractive effort of 170,000 pounds.

(engineering, rail transport) the tractive force that can be generated by a prime mover to pull a load; cardinal examples are a locomotive pulling a train, a semi-tractor pulling a trailer or a tractor pulling a plow.

thrust

the analogue for aircraft engines, rocket engines, and watercraft propulsion

torque

moment of force; the analogue in rotational reference


ruling grade

Homemade No. 6187 climbs the .51 per cent ruling grade west from Fort Wayne, Ind., with 68 cars behind her tender.

(rail transport) synonym of ruling gradient


smoke deflector

smoke deflector (plural smoke deflectors)

The unusually handsome "cleaned-up" appearance of these engines, with their shapely smoke deflectors at the front end, is worthy of note.

1941 January, “Recent North American Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 27:

Aside from the air-scoop smoke deflector, GTW's six U-4-b streamlined 4-8-4's were counterparts of CNR's U-4-a's.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 44, photo caption:

A further Class A3 Pacific to be equipped with German-type smoke deflectors is No. 60105, [...] We gather that these deflectors have proved very efficient on the A3s.

1961 March, “Motive Power Miscellany”, in Trains Illustrated, page 181:

(rail transport) a device fitted to either side or on top of the smokebox of some steam locomotives, the purpose of which was to lift smoke clear of the locomotive at speed, so it wouldn't obscure the driver's vision.


pilot beam

To comply with restrictive clearances this T-1-a mounts pumps, headlight and bell on the pilot beam and carries a squared-off sandbox and a naked Coffin feedwater heater.

Pilot beams, however, the foremost cross-brace of the frame, continued to be made of wood until almost 1900.

1979, A History of the American Locomotive: Its Development 1830-1880, by John H. White, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:

(rail transport, US) a transverse beam at the end of a locomotive which carries the pilot or cowcatcher.


dieseldom

The Texas J1's were eminently satisfactory, but the railroad's disinclination to buy anybody else's ideas was expressed in a rash of duplex-drive 4-4-4-4 and 4-4-6-4 engines after the war. Their theory was admirable but their performance hastened the day of dieseldom.

The Alco C-628s had arrived, and the Hoosier Line entered the big leagues of dieseldom.

2002, Monon: The Hoosier Line, by Gary W. Dolzall and Stephen F. Dolzall, Indiana University Press, →ISBN:

(rail transport, uncommon, literary) the state of being dieselised, or having achieved dieselisation with the introduction of diesel locomotives.


right of repentance

right of repentance (plural rights of repentance)

(aviation, travel, consumer law) The right of a passenger, in some jurisdictions, to obtain a full refund on an airline ticket within a specific period of time.


Chessie

(rail transport) a nickname given to (and used by) the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.


coaling stage

Handsome 3001 gets away from the coaling stage at Mendota, Ill., in 1958 with a 16-car Illini Club excursion loaded with admirers.

1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 48 (photo caption)

(rail transport) a structure, which took various forms, used to supply coal to steam locomotives.


Milwaukee Road

(rail transport, informal) The former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.