| 释义 |
ginny-carriage dial.|ˈdʒɪnɪkærɪdʒ|
Also jenny-.
(See quot. 1841.)
1824Mrs. Cameron Marten & 2 Scholars ii. 12 On Sunday morning he looked so clean..that nobody would have thought he had been driving a jenny-carriage all the week. 1841Hartshorne Salop. Antiq. Gloss., Ginny carriage, a stout wooden or sometimes iron carriage, used for conveying materials along a rail road. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Ginny-carriage, a railway car for conveying materials.
So ginny-rails (see quot.).
1841Hartshorne Salop. Antiq. Gloss., Ginny rails, iron rails along which small wooden carriages (ginny carriages) are drawn, laden with coal, iron-stone [etc.]. |