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shandry n.w. dial.|ˈʃændrɪ| Also shanderee, shandray. [Perh. shortened from next, which however is later in our quots.] A light cart or trap on springs. Also shandry cart.
1802Mrs. Wheeler Westmld. Dial. iv. 95 Dud the cusen keep a horse an a shanderee? 18..J. Briggs Rem. (1825) 93 (E.D.D.), We hired a shandry to carry us to Little Langdale. 1836Sir G. Head Home Tour 427, I saw this happy couple drive away from the inn together, in a light shandry cart. 1859Dickens Haunted Ho. vii. 45 I'll drive yo' in the shandry. a1865Mrs. Gaskell Sexton's Hero in Cousin Phillis, etc. 280 We borrowed a shandry, and harnessed my old grey mare. 1882Lanc. Gloss., Shandray, a one-horse carriage. 1888Bury Times 1 Sept. 6 Damages to a milk shandry. |