单词 | ducket |
释义 | ducketn.1 slang (originally Criminals' slang). Chiefly U.S. in later use. A ticket, a pass, esp. †(a) a rail ticket (obsolete); (b) (chiefly U.S.) a ticket for admission to a theatre, a sporting event, etc.; (originally) spec. †a free ticket (obsolete). Cf. docket n.1 7. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > ticket ticket1673 card1749 brief1860 ducket1871 rover1934 1871 J. H. Banka State Prison Life 493 Railroad ticket,..ducket. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 152 Ducket, a ticket of any kind. Generally applied to pawnbroker's duplicates and raffle cards. 1879 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 501/2 So I took a ducat (ticket) for Sutton in Surrey. 1893 P. H. Emerson Signor Lippo xiv. 47 Give me due beonck quatro soldi per run and I'll bring you the duckets. 1923 W. J. Kingsley Vaudeville Dict. in N.Y. Times 7 Oct. 2 x./1 Ducats, passes secured by artists. 1927 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 26 Nov. 27/8 After one of the most ferocious struggles..on the part of the proletariat for those coveted pasteboards known as duckets, the Army and the Navy football teams meet..tomorrow afternoon. 1929 A. J. Barr Let Tomorrow come ii. 149 A ducket back to wherever you come up from. 1970 S. J. Perelman in Guardian 30 Nov. 8/2 My wife and I had a couple of ducketts to see the Marxes' Broadway musical, ‘Animal Crackers’. 2010 G. Kolpan in C. Romano Philadelphia Noir iv. 244 Here's a ducket for the show. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ducketn.2 British. Railways. Now historical. A windowed, box-like structure mounted to the top or (in later use more usually) side of the brake van of a train, from which the guard has a clearer view along the railway track. ΚΠ 1877 Royal Comm. Railway Accidents: Minutes of Evid. 528/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 1637-I) XLVIII. 173 You see nothing unless you are on the top sitting in the ducket. 1913 Manch. Guardian 18 Jan. 5/3 At the same time the projecting fittings and ducket of the guard's van of the express were also ripped off. 1972 Modelworld Oct. 63/2 Moulded body and underframe are beautifully detailed, even to the cut-out windows in the look-out ducket. 1974 R. W. Kidner Notes Southern Railway Rolling Stock 4 The high-roofed generation came in many variations; some of the brake coaches for instance had the ducket in the centre, some at the end. 2015 D. Tisdale Building 00 Gauge Wagons & Vans Model Railways v. 127 On the body sides [of the model train], the guard's duckets were removed with a fine razor saw. Compounds General attributive, as ducket window, ducket glass, etc. ΚΠ 1885 North-eastern Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 11 Nov. When about Hebburn Station he put his head out of the ducket window, when something knocked him senseless. 1897 in Railway Accidents (1898) 151/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 8826) LXXXI. 33 Three footboards, two nozzles, one ducket glass, and one quarter light, &c., broken. 1901 in Railway Accidents (1902) App. 121 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 1101) LXXXIX. 169 The assistant guard..states that he was looking out of his ducket window at the time, and that he distinctly saw the leading end of the vehicle in front of him give a lurch towards the left and then give some violent jumps. 1965 C. H. Ellis Railway Carriages Brit. Isles xvi. 257 The ducket lights were hinged, possibly to assist observation in dense Merseyside fogs. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11871n.21877 |
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