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Pickford|ˈpɪkfəd|
The name of a firm engaged in the removal of furniture, used ellipt. or in the possessive to denote a van used by Pickfords to remove furniture, or the firm itself. Also fig. and attrib.
[1833C. Mathews Let. 8 Oct. in A. Mathews Mem. Charles Mathews (1839) IV. 205 It will be lighter for posting than any travelling carriage now in his yard. It cannot be called a Pickford, at any rate.] 1864Chambers's Jrnl. 5 Mar. 152 The ubiquitous Pickford breaks the street-lamps, by going too near to the pavement. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. II. iv. xii. 263 The sanctuary was..a kind of criminal Pickford's. The lower passions and vices were regularly ticked off in the books, warehoused in the cells, carted away. 1873D. G. Rossetti Let. 18 Dec. (1967) III. 1250 Pickfords must be mad if they really took it to the wrong station. 1901Daily Tel. 14 Nov. 4/5, I have seen a pair-horse Pickford tip coming up London Bridge. 1907G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island p. xv, We cannot crush England as a Pickford's van might crush a perambulator. We are the perambulator and England the Pickford. 1975J. Hone Sixth Directorate iii. 94 What he isn't taking is being stored. Pickfords are coming tomorrow. 1980R. McCrum In Strange State ix. 74 ‘Keys to the boot, please, sir.’.. Another constable..rummaged about among his books, papers and clothes. ‘A regular Pickfords.’ |