释义 |
ˈrolling stock [f. rolling ppl. a.] The locomotives, wagons, carriages, or other vehicles, used upon a railway. Also attrib.
1853S. Hughes Gasworks 335 Expenses necessary..for keeping in perfect order both the rolling stock and the permanent way. 1861Times 22 Aug., The severity of the winter, which damaged their rolling stocks and seriously injured their roadways. 1878F. S. Williams Midl. Railw. 127 In regard to the rolling stock..a deterioration of the value of the locomotives had taken place to the amount of..{pstlg}100,000. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 152 The North-Western rolling-stock works. fig.1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxvi. 299 There is a regular rolling stock of bad farmers in every country. |