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▪ I. park, n.|pɑːk|
Also 3–4 parc, (also 9 in senses 5, 6), 3–7 parke, 5 paark, perke, 8– Sc. perk.
[ME. a. OF. parc preserve for beasts of the chase, etc. The OF. was ultimately identical with WGer. *parruk, whence OE. pearruc: for the history see parrock. The Welsh parc and Gael. pàirc are from Eng. In senses 5 and 6 from later uses of F. parc. The Fr. word has also passed into Du. and Ger., where it is used alongside of the native forms descended from WGer. *parruk.]
1. a. Law. An enclosed tract of land held by royal grant or prescription for keeping beasts of the chase. (Distinguished from a forest or chase by being enclosed, and from a forest also by having no special laws or officers.)
c1260Charter of Friðuuald of Surrey (dated a 675) in Kemble Cod. Dipl. V. 18 Bitwiene ðe shrubbes and Wine⁓briȝt goinde adun norðriȝte binuðe ða parkes gate. c1275Lay. 1432 Ȝe honteþ in þis kinges parc [c 1205 friðe] Þar fore ȝe solle deȝe. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 12 Engelonde is vol inoȝ of frut & ek of tren, Of wodes & of parkes. c1350Will. Palerne 2845 A pris place was vnder þe paleys a park as it were þat whilom wiþ wilde bestes was wel restored. 1436Rolls of Parlt. IV. 498/2 To make a Park in Grenewyche. a1440Sir Degrev. 362 Have ye nat perkus and chas? 1542Boorde Dyetary iv. (1870) 239 A parke repleted with dere & conyes is a necessarye and a pleasaunt thyng to be anexed to a mansyon. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 139 Wood⁓stocke Towne is famous for the Kings House and large Parke, compassed with a stone wall, which is said to haue been the first Parke in England. 1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 249 There are only two small parks of deer in Connecticut. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 255 To a park three things are necessary: 1. A grant from the King. 2. Inclosures by pale, wall, or hedge. 3. Beasts of park, such as buck, doe, &c. And where all the deer are destroyed, it shall no more be accounted a park.
b. Hence extended to a large ornamental piece of ground, usually comprising woodland and pasture, attached to or surrounding a country house or mansion, and used for recreation, and often for keeping deer, cattle, or sheep.
In these the name has either come down from a time when the ground was legally a park in sense 1, or has been more recently given to a ground laid out in imitation of such as were originally parks. It is thus not possible to separate the quotations accurately.
1715De Foe Fam. Instruct. i. iii. (1841) I. 63 Nor walk out in the park or fields any more on the Lord's-day. 1813M. Edgeworth Patron. (1833) I. xvi. 256 Hungerford Castle—a fine old place in a beautiful park. 1850Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 326 Having never remarked this splendid tree in any English shrubbery or park. 1872Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 226 Giving to the pine woods..the aspect of beautiful natural parks. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right (1899) 175/1 One of those natural forest-parks peculiar to Australia.
c. In this sense now often forming part of the name of a country house or mansion; and thence of suburban districts, as Addington Park, Osterley Park; Clapham Park.
1848Miss Sewell Amy Herbert viii. (1858) 92 She felt a little unwilling to acknowledge that her home was neither a park nor a hall. Ibid. x. 127, I daresay you have been dreaming of having a large house like Rochford Park.
d. fig.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 899/1 Wee must bee so much the more watchfull, and keepe our selues stil within the parke wherein God inpaled vs with his worde. 1606Sir W. Harbert Proph. Cadwallader clxxvi, Wolsey..did erect those glorious towres of yore [Christ Church, Oxford], Learning's receptacle, Religion's parke. 1898H. M. Stanley Introd. Capt. Burrows' Land Pigmies p. xi, This vast slave park whence Dongolawi and Arab, Bakongo and Portuguese half-caste slave traders culled their victims.
2. a. An enclosed piece of ground, of considerable extent, usually within or adjoining a city or town, ornamentally laid out and devoted to public recreation; a ‘public park’, as the various ‘parks’ in and around London, and other cities and towns. Also, an enclosed piece of ground, of considerable extent, where animals are exhibited to the public (either as the primary function of that ‘park’ or as a secondary attraction); see also safari park, zoological park. the Park (in London): in 17th c. St. James's Park, later esp. Hyde Park, as the place of fashionable promenade.
This application has its origin in some of the royal parks (in sense 1) near London (i.e. St. James's, etc.) developing into ornamental grounds to which the public were conditionally admitted.
[1661: see pall-mall 2 and 3 b.] 1663Pepys Diary 15 May, I walked in the Parke, discoursing with the keeper of the Pell Mell. 1666Ibid. 15 July, Walked..to the Park; and there..lay down by the canalle. 1706–7Farquhar Beaux' Strat. iv. ii, There will be Title, Place and Precedence, the Park, the Play, and the Drawing-Room. 1727Fielding Love in Sev. Masq. ii. ii, Come, my dear, by this, I believe, the park begins to fill. 1820Byron Blues ii. 150 But 'tis now nearly five, and I must to the Park. 1855London as it is 112 Victoria Park..was first opened in 1847, for the recreation of the inhabitants of the east side of London... The park has been most admirably laid out. 1894Ralph in Harper's Mag. Aug. 332 To create there a charming park filled with summer cottages for themselves and other wealthy New Yorkers. 1897Daily News 25 Feb. 6/4 It is not etiquette to bow or curtsey to Royalty in the parks. 1897Westm. Gaz. 25 June 2/3 The Jubilee celebrations..included among other things the opening of a new park. 1909Elliot & Thacker tr. Hagenbeck's Beasts & Men ii. 40, I wished my new park to be a great and enduring example of the benefits that can be wrought by giving the animals as much freedom and placing them in as natural an environment as possible. 1914E. Velvin From Jungle to Zoo xxiii. 336 There are 139 employees engaged in taking care of the ground and collections of this Park [sc. the New York Zoological Park]. 1976W. Blunt Ark in Park i. 15 William the Conqueror established or perhaps took over an already existing animal park at Woodstock, near Oxford. 1977Belfast Tel. 22 Feb., The initiation of compulsory safety programmes at wild life parks and circuses.
b. An extensive area of land of defined limits set apart as national property to be kept in its natural state for the public benefit and enjoyment or for the preservation of wild life, as the Yellowstone Park (65 miles long by 55 broad) in the United States.
Up to Jan. 1903, seven such National Parks had been established by Act of Congress in the United States.
[1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (ed. 2) I. 262 What a beautiful and thrilling specimen for America to preserve and hold up to the view of..future ages! A nation's Park, containing man and beast, in all the wild and freshness of their nature's beauty.] 1871N. P. Langford (in N.Y. Tribune 28 Jan.), This new field of Wonders [the Yellowstone Park] should be at once..set apart as a public National Park for the enjoyment of the American people for all time. 1872Rep. Regents of Smithsonian Inst. (1873) 28 A proposition, originally made by Mr. Catlin as early as 1832, has been revived and presented to Congress, to reserve the country around these geysers as a public park. 1872U.S. Statutes XVII. 32 An Act to set apart a certain Tract of Land lying near the Head-waters of the Yellowstone River as a public Park. 1895Roosevelt & Grinnell Hunting in Many Lands 400 The preservation of elk, deer, antelope and the carnivora is assured... Their wide distribution within the Park,..added to the danger attendant on killing them within the Park, is a sufficient protection. 1903U.S. Statutes XXXI. 765 An Act To set apart certain lands in the State of South Dakota as a public park to be known as the Wind Cave National Park. 1922Baedeker's Dominion of Canada (ed. 4) vii. 309 About 3M. to the S. of Lamont lies the pretty Elk Island Park.., one of the Canadian National Parks.., 16 sq. M. in area and including elk, deer, moose, and buffalo. 1926Encycl. Brit. II. 1020/1 In Canada since 1910 the following national game preserves, bearing the name of parks, have been established... Nemiskam National Park.., an antelope preserve in southeastern Alberta [etc]. 1957Ibid. XXIII. 603/1 The Serengeti National park..preserves the finest remaining assembly of the plains game of Africa. 1959Chambers's Encycl. IX. 705/1 In African parks the emphasis is on wild life conservation and public access is strictly controlled. 1974Afr. Encycl. 362/1 National parks are areas of land where large numbers of wild animals live in natural surroundings. 1975Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 31 Aug. 4/1, I got to see the first of the wild animals for which Africa is famous. This was in the Game Park at Lake Nakuru. 1978K. Turner Serengeti Home i. 1 This was my first visit to the Serengeti, a vast wildlife park in Tanganyika, now Tanzania.
c. A sports ground or stadium; spec. (a) in the U.S., a baseball field (cf. ball park s.v. ball n.1 21); (b) a football field or stadium; also in the names of football teams.
1867Chicago Times 25 July 5/2 These cars connect with the stock-yards dummy, which runs to within a short distance of the park. 1880Times 8 Nov. 11/3 Notts v. Glasgow Queen's-Park. This match was played at Nottingham on Saturday, and ended in favour of Queen's-park by four goals to three. 1892J. Higson Hist. Salford Football Club 18 Our first ground was the Peel Park cricket ground. Ibid. 96 The first game they played with us was against Birkenhead Park. 1902‘Golden Penny’ Football Album 1901–2 32/3 The record gate at an International match is {pstlg}4,387 9s. 6d. for Scotland v. England, at Celtic Park, Glasgow, in 1900. 1917C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 217 Which way is the park from here, please? 1948S. Matthews Feet First xii. 66 The first thought that flashed through my anxious mind was Hampden Park. Would this injury keep me out of the England team to play Scotland? 1974Linlithgowshire Jrnl. & Gaz. 16 Aug. 12/5 Old favourite Paddy Buckley led the Bo'ness team on to the park on Saturday. 1974Sunday Tel. 8 Sept. 33/6 Middlesbrough began as if they were going to sweep Chelsea off the park. 1976E. Dunphy Only a Game? i. 31 He'd been troubled by knee injuries ever since Palace kicked us off the park the year they got promotion. 1976Scotsman 27 Dec. 10/5 The sad sight of fighting on the terracing and terrified youngsters spilling on to the park.
d. industrial park: see industrial a. e.
3. a. In Ireland, Scotland, and north of England: An enclosed piece of ground for pasture or tillage; a field; a parrock or paddock.
town parks (Ireland), small fields or plots of ground lying round a town or village, usually let for tillage or pasture to the townsmen or villagers.
1581Inv. in Gentl. Mag. Sept. (1861) 257 The foure parkes by the greene which Richard and John Shanighaine holdeth of me for years. 1701Scotl. Charac. in Harl. Misc. (ed. Park) VII. 379 Upon inquiry how many deer his father had in his perk, the truth will out,..that they call an inclosure a perk, in his country. c1802M. Edgeworth Ennui viii, Many a ragged man had come..with the modest request that I would let him one of the parks near the town. Ibid., Just what would feed a cow is sufficient in Ireland to constitute a park. 1887Pall Mall G. 19 Aug. 11/1 Mr. Healy..explained in a graphic way that a ‘town park’ was accommodation land, by means of which in the wretched villages, misnamed towns, scattered throughout Ireland, the hucksters..eked out a miserable business by growing potatoes or feeding stock for early slaughter. 1899Westm. Gaz. 13 Mar. 1/3 Kodaks from the Kingdom [i.e. Fife]..‘Old Kirsty’..lived all alone, far up in the ‘parks’, as we say of the wide stretches of old pasture which reach away inland till they merge into gorse and heather.
†b. Any enclosed piece of ground. Obs. rare.
1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 138 In what manner you should inclose your melon ground. In this park (which may be of what extent you think good) you shall make beds of horse-dung.
c. U.S. An enclosure into which animals are driven for slaughter; a corral. Obs.
c1797in L. F. R. Masson Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (1889) I. 280 The chief of the park thinks that if he were to eat any of this meat thus killed, it would be out of his power to make buffaloes enter his park ever after; so he must have meat killed in the open field for his own use. 1805M. Lewis in Lewis & Clark Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Expedition (1904) I. 313 There was a park which they had formed of timber and brush, for the purpose of taking the cabrie or antelope. 1820D. W. Harmon Jrnl. Voy. & Trav. Interior N. Amer. 99 The Natives..killed upwards of eighty [buffalo] by driving them into a park, made for that purpose. 1839Z. Leonard Adventures (1904) 224 After travelling a short distance we arrived at a large pen, enclosing about three⁓fourths of an acre, which they call a park or correll.
4. a. Applied in some parts of the United States, esp. Colorado and Wyoming, to a high plateau-like valley among the mountains.
1808Pike Sources Mississ. (1810) ii. 123 Passed the Park, which is ten miles round, and not more than three quarters of a mile across. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xix. 137 Hence the oases, such as the ‘parks’ that lie among these mountains. 1877J. A. Allen Amer. Bison 560 Adventurers and miners..exterminated them [bisons] in the parks and valleys of the mountains. 1890Century Mag. Feb. 523/1 Then it had descended into a great ‘park’, crossed it, and begun a new ascent.
b. (See quots.)
1950Amer. Speech XXV. 163 The meaning of park as ‘any grassy piece of level land enclosed by trees, hills, or mountains’ has become, or at least is fast becoming, the central meaning of the word [in Colorado]. 1961Ibid. XXXVI. 269 Park means either ‘mountain meadow’ or ‘clearing’, from the foothills communities westward; especially in the northwest it is likely to mean both.
5. a. Mil. The space occupied by the artillery, wagons, beasts, stores, or the like, in an encampment; these objects themselves when thus placed together; a complete set or equipment of artillery, of tools, etc.
1683Sir J. Turner Pallas Armata iii. xx. 294 As to these Oblong Quadrangles, wherein are encamped several bodies,.. you may if you please, call them as the French do, Parks, and that properly enough. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Park of the Artillery, is a certain Place in a Camp without Cannon-shot of the Place besieged, where the Cannon, Artificial Fires, Powder, and other Warlike Ammunition are kept. Ibid., Park of Provisions, is another Place in the Camp, on the Rear of every Regiment, which is taken up by the Suttlers, who follow the Army with all sorts of Provisions, and sell them to the Soldiers. 1755Washington Writ. (1889) I. 160 The whole park of artillery were ordered to hold themselves in readiness to march. 1799Stuart in Owen Mrq. Wellesley's Desp. (1877) 113 The main body of the army, with the park and provisions, remained at Seedapore. 1827Napier Penins. War vi. iv, A vast parc of carriages. 1836Alison Europe (1849–50) V. xxxi. §29 Kray..despatched his grand park, consisting of one hundred and sixty pieces and eight hundred caissons. 1859Marcy Prairie Trav. vi. 221 If..a small party be in danger of an attack from a large force of Indians, they should seek the cover of timber or a park of wagons. 1884Mil. Engineering (ed. 3) I. ii. 8 Sites for the artillery, engineer, and grand magazine parks should now be prepared. 1900Westm. Gaz. 19 Mar. 5/1 There is no reserve of boots in the supply column or supply-park.
b. An open space, a building, or underground accommodation, in or near a city or town, where cars and other vehicles can be left; = car-park (car n.1 6). Also transf. See also caravan park.
1916A. Bennett Lion's Share xxiii. 162 Audrey's motor-car..was waiting in the automobile park outside the principal gates. 1925Times 14 Apr. 8/5 The Automobile Association..has put forward a scheme for the construction of motor parks below ground. 1929,1944[see air park s.v. air n.1 III. 7]. 1970Times 9 Feb. 13/4 Underground there will be a park for up to 2,200 cars. 1972R. Hill Fairly Dangerous Thing i. i. 11 The park was quite full and he would probably never have noticed the two-tone Consul if it hadn't begun to move.
c. [f. the vb., 2 b.] In a motor vehicle with automatic transmission: the position of the selector lever in which the gears are locked, preventing the vehicle from moving.
1963Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 116/1 P meant Park. This position could only be engaged with the car at rest and it served as a transmission brake which would hold the car on a hill. Ibid. 116/2 If the engine was started with the lever at Park and it was running quickly, the car would tend to jerk backwards as the lever was passed through Reverse on its way to Drive. 1965Priestley & Wisdom Good Driving v. 40 In Park the gearbox is locked and thus the car is completely immobilized. 1967Times 31 Mar. 3/7 It is obvious that in using a car with automatic transmission it is of the utmost importance that drivers should ensure that the lever is in the ‘park’ position, while they use the handle. 1972D. E. Westlake Cops & Robbers (1973) i. 15 He shifted into drive, caught up, and shifted back into park. 1977J. Cleary Vortex viii. 208 Stenhouse moved the gear-lever from Park to Drive and the car started to move forward.
6. An enclosed area in which oysters are bred, communicating with the sea so as to be overflowed at every high tide; an oyster-park. (In quot. 1603, applied to a similar enclosure for fish.)
[1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1891) 117 They haue ready at their call..sault water fishe as yt were in a parke of wild fish.] 1867Times 15 Oct. 5/6 In the shallowest of these parcs..not one of the young oysterlings.. was known to have been killed. 1882Standard 18 Feb. 5/2 In some of the French ‘parks’ the water is renewed every tide. 1883F. G. Sola Fisheries Spain 5 The Government..is laying down..a model park for oyster culture.
7. attrib. and Comb., as park deer, park-fence, park-gate, park-hound, park-land, park-lodge, park-pale, park-paling, † park-palis, park-robber, park-wall; park-like adj.; park bench, a bench in a park provided for the public; also attrib.; † park-bote, the repair of the fence or wall of a park; the impost levied for this; park-breaker, one who breaks into a park (cf. house-breaker); so park-breaking; park-hack, a horse for riding in the park: see hack n.3 1 b; park-ranger, -warden, an official responsible for the patrolling and maintenance of a national park; park-time (nonce-wd., after dinner-time, etc.), time for riding in the park; parkway, (a) (orig. U.S.) (see quot.); (b) a name given to a railway station with extensive parking facilities, situated on the outskirts of a city for the use of travellers into the city centre. Also park-keeper.
1906Daily Chron. 6 Sept. 3/2 When a *Park-bench orator has shouted at you for a quarter of an hour, you cease to be able to attend. 1908Busy Man's Mag. Mar. 63/2 So amiably and with gusto he economized, sleeping in the moonlight upon a park bench and following the marvels of the water front by day. 1946A. Clarke Second Kiss 14 That park bench in the rain, the dredge of leaves, I sat there wrapped in miserable sleeves. 1965Listener 11 Nov. 763/1 Those tendencies of sloth and indolence which..have marked me out as a friend of park⁓bench philosophers. 1976‘O. Bleeck’ No Questions Asked xii. 137 If I weren't here, you could find a priest or a psychiatrist or just somebody on a park bench.
a1634Coke Inst. iv. 308 *Parkebote, to be quit of enclosing of a Park or any part thereof.
1821Scott Kenilw. v, If you take him for a house-breaker, or a *park-breaker, is it not most natural you should welcome him with cold steel or hot lead?
1834Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. 1846 II. 267 Venerable laws..against *park-breaking and deer-stealing.
1898Daily News 26 Jan. 9/5 Animals held more or less in confinement..whether they be *park-deer, rabbits, pigeons, or animals in menageries. 1901Daily Chron. 7 Aug. 6/4 Legislation for the suppression of park-deer hunting.
1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocr. Wks. (Bohn) II. 84, I pardoned high *park-fences, when I saw that besides does and pheasants, these have preserved Arundel marbles, Towneley galleries.
c1400Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxxv, If the huntynge shall be in a parke, alle men shulden abyde at þe *parke gate. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 48 The exploit of that gallant man who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his Parkgate.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair li, *Park-hacks and splendid high⁓stepping carriage-horses.
1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt, i, 11 Views *park-like and picturesque. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 266 Green park-like woodlands.
1837Lytton E. Maltrav. ix, The chaise..stopped at the gates of a *park lodge.
a1550Image Ipocr. ii. in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 434 He cane tell many tales, Of many *parke pales, Of butgettes and of males.
1846Greener Sci. Gunnery 14 Birmingham is the emporium of the world for guns, from the..‘*park paling’ so called, of the slave-trade..up to the elaborately-finished gun of the peer. 1899R. Kipling Stalky 12 The high Lodge gate in the split-oak park palings.
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 812/21 Hoc vallum, a *parke palys.
1713Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 46 From equipage, and *Park-parades.
1912J. B. Bickersteth Let. 20 June in Land of Open Doors (1914) 150 Next day, after seeing the *park ranger about the burial place, the doctor and I went down..to a place where there is a flat stretch of land. 1940E. Fergusson Our Southwest 144 Park rangers now assiduously police almost two million acres of land. 1963Weekly News (Auckland) 15 May 30/2 The maintenance of bush tracks and huts is almost a full-time occupation for the park rangers [at the Fiordland National Park]. 1972G. Durrell Catch me a Colobus ix. 192, I felt that, if we talked to the park rangers, they would be sure to give us information about the whereabouts of the Teporingoes. 1977Borneo Bull. 7 May 4-A/1 Park rangers, who have continued to look for him, found some traces.
1881Mrs. O'Donoghue (title) Ladies on Horseback; Learning, *Park-riding and Hunting.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 184/2 The Blood⁓hound..hunts Beasts, or Men..that are *Park Robbers.
1439Rolls of Parlt. V. 15/1 They came by a *Parke side, called ye Park of Prys.
1672Wycherley Love in Wood i. ii, Pray Mr. Ranger, let's go..'tis *Park-time. 1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode iv. iv, What a clock does your lordship think it is?.. It is almost park-time.
1936D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies vii. 62 Bill Hartley..is *Park Warden at Glacier in British Columbia. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo ix. 159 The park warden is more than an impresario. 1973Times 9 Feb. 9/1 In the party will be..an Ethiopian Government minister, and national park wardens.
1887Visit to States (ser. 1) xxix. 378 This broad *parkway has a magnificent drive on either side of a central walk for pedestrians. 1896Godey's Mag. (U.S.) Apr. 350/1 The right to travel upon the public roads and *park⁓ways. 189819th Cent. Apr. 585 ‘Park-ways’, to connect the great outlying woodlands..with the Metropolitan Parks of Boston and the surrounding townships. These park-ways are broad boulevards with margins of grass, wood, and river. 1929Times 23 Jan. 20 Parkway system near New York City. 1937Times 13 Apr. (Suppl.) p. x/2 The plan may provide for orbital and radial roads, parkways, viaducts and tunnels, communications to aerodromes, railway stations, and docks. 1938Archit. Rev. LXXXIV. 238/3 The city of Stockholm, which has had the foresight to buy up large tracts of land in its neighbourhood, has been able to plan a system of ‘Parkways’. Initially an American development the ‘Parkway’ represents a form of planning which might with advantage be extensively used in the English countryside. 1939, etc. Parkway [see clover-leaf s.v. clover n. 4]. 1944Ann. Reg. 1943 58 An easy flow of open space from..parkway to green wedge, and from green wedge to Green Belt. 1958Listener 23 Oct. 642/1 The development of the Wythenshawe estate by the City of Manchester..with its beautifully landscaped parkway—the first, I think, in this country. 1972Modern Railways July 271 The Western Region recently commissioned two new stations, one completely new at Bristol Parkway. 1973Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Aug. 11 Canberra's major new freeway-type road which is the subject of a major ‘environmental impact investigation’ is now styled the Molonglo Parkway. 1976P. R. White Planning for Public Transport viii. 155 The ‘parkway’ stations opened by British Rail in recent years, notably that at Bristol, offer undoubted evidence of cars being abandoned by their users in favour of a rail journey. 1977Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 11 Jan. 1/4 The route of their return to the Royal Yacht will be made by the Mandale Interchange and the new Parkway.
1672Wycherley Love in Wood ii. i, Then you are a *Park⁓woman, certainly.
▸ park home n. a mobile home; esp. a caravan or trailer on a permanent site, freq. in an open, park-like location.
1989What Mortgage Mar. 75/3 Embodied in the society's memoranda for 1989 is the power to make loans for the purchase of mobile homes—a subject of growing interest in the current development of many fine *park-home sites nationwide. 1992in A. Ravetz Place of Home (1995) vi. 105/1 When you buy a park home, you're not just buying a property. You're buying a new beginning. An opportunity to adopt a brand new life style. 2004Park Home & Holiday Caravan Feb. 35/1 All twin-unit park homes are manufactured as two modules to facilitate transportation to the park where they are joined together.
▪ II. park, v.|pɑːk|
[f. park n.]
1. a. trans. To enclose in, as in, or as, a park.
1526[see parking 1]. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 144 A certayne hyll, whiche they must nedes go ouer that go by land from Egipte to Arabia Petrea, that parketh them. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Enclore,..to enclose and parke in. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. ii. 45 How are we park'd and bounded in a pale! 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iii. 456 We fair fine ladies, who park out our lives From common sheep-paths.
b. park about, to surround with a park.
1876Browning Shop vi, Some suburb-palace, parked about And gated grandly, built last year.
c. To lay out or plant in the manner of a park: see parking 2.
2. a. Mil., etc. To arrange compactly (artillery, wagons, etc.) in a park: see prec. 5.
1812Examiner 30 Nov. 756/2, 6000 Cossacks..took six pieces of cannon, which were parked. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 180 At night..the waggons are to be parked, so as to occupy as little space as possible. 1883Army Corps Orders in Standard 22 Mar. 3/3 The Artillery will be parked to the east and west of the south end of the Race-course.
b. To place or leave (a vehicle or the like), usu. temporarily, in a park (sense 5 b), at the side of the road, or elsewhere. orig. U.S.
1864J. S. Billings in F. H. Garrison John Shaw Billings (1915) 95 The trains are parked along the edge of the river. 1867A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi 79 At night the wagons are parked in a circle. 1887Police Arrangem. Jubilee Process. 21 June, The area..is reserved for parking carriages belonging to the Procession. 1900Congress. Rec. 2 Feb. 1445/1 No part of said street..shall be used for depot purposes, or railroad yard, or for the purpose of switching, shifting, or parking cars. 1911N.Y. Even. Post 29 Nov. 16 The train was parked near the Union Station and was visited by hundreds of townsfolk and countrymen. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 13 Mar. 6/2, I am now in the position of fearing to leave my car anywhere at all in the central part of the city lest I should be parking it where it should not be. 1925Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves! vi. 156 It was about an hour later that I shoved my way out to where I had parked the car. 1929J. B. Priestley Good Companions i. iv. 139 They were not able to keep the van with them, but had to..park it up a side⁓street in a line of other cars and carts and caravans. 1938Times 25 Feb. 15/2 The Chinese..state that over 40 Japanese aeroplanes were observed parked on the air⁓field. 1969Highway Code 22 Make sure you always park your vehicle safely. 1974Nature 15 Nov. 185/3 Down by the river, in the specially built loop for parking punts, the economic crisis seemed a thousand light years away.
c. transf. To place or leave (a person or thing) in a suitable or convenient place until required; to put aside for a while. Also refl.
1908St. George's Rev. July 282 The children being ‘parked’ in their own schoolyards. 1922Atlantic Monthly June 773 High-school girls..‘park’ their corsets when they go to dances. 1923Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves iv. 40 At this point the brother, who after shedding a floppy overcoat and parking his hat on a chair had been standing by..gave a little cough. Ibid. ix. 94 The policeman, having retrieved a piece of chewing-gum from the underside of a chair, where he had parked it against a rainy day, went off into a corner. 1927Evening Standard 7 Dec. 19/1 Then I suppose I park myself here. 1938E. Waugh Scoop i. v. 81 A voice said in English, ‘Anyone mind if I park myself here?’ and a stranger stood at the table. 1949R. Harvey Curtain Time 66 So for Hattie the Grand Opera House, Daly's Theatre, Wallack's, Booth's, Tony Pastor's Variety Theatre and Niblo's Garden became familiar enchanted night nurseries where her father would park her, safe and amused, until his meeting was over. 1960E. W. Hildick Jim Starling & Colonel xv. 137 Come on, dad! Park yerself! 1968[see booster 2 c]. 1971‘A. Burgess’ MF xiv. 158 His companion had parked his black lenses on his brow. 1972J. Philips Vanishing Senator (1973) iii. iii. 139 Peter crawled round to the other side of the bed where his aluminium leg was parked. 1978G. Greene Human Factor iii. ii. 117 The girl was parking her gum on the back of the telephone directory while she got down to a long satisfactory conversation.
d. intr. To take up a position in or as in a park; to place a vehicle in a park or elsewhere; to occupy a suitable or stationary position; to stay where one is.
1865O. W. Norton Army Lett. (1903) 255 The wagons parked behind the stables to wait orders. 1926G. Frankau My Unsentimental Journey xi. 149 There, Stidger put on his brakes, ‘parked’, took out the inevitable keys to lock his gear-lever and ignition-switch. 1929Strand Mag. Feb. 183 ‘I want them’ persisted the other ‘and I guess I'm parking right here until I do get 'em’. 1948Democrat 1 Jan. 4/2 Drivers now can park or back into alleys or up to loading platforms with much greater ease. 1959Daily Tel. 24 Mar. 9/3 Besides asking motorists not to park on main roads, he urged them to use alternative routes. 1966P. Moloney Plea for Mersey 51 Not hardened junkies, when deprived of dope, Ere felt such anger..As Scouseville driver seeking space to park.
3. intr. To walk or drive in a park.
a1783H. Brooke Love & Vanity Poems (1810) 416/2 Then all for parking, and parading, Coquetting, dancing, masquerading.
Hence parked |pɑːkt| ppl. a.
1807J. Barlow Columb. vi. 375 Deep squadron'd horse..And park'd artillery. 1841Miall in Nonconf. I. 57 A residence..compassed round with parked and shaven acres. 1919C. P. Thompson Cocktails 176 The old farm where the V.A.D. drivers were cleaning their parked ambulances. 1932Daily Tel. 23 May 8/6 In view of..the parked cars using the park, it was felt that it was an injustice that the horse-rider should be solely blamed for damage to the turf. 1962[see double-park v.]. 1973Daily Tel. 19 June 3/1 A visitor to Gatwick Airport complained yesterday that he had been able to walk unchallenged up to a parked airliner. 1976C. Bermant Coming Home ii. i. 113 One can hardly move for tourists and traffic and parked cars. |