gambon.
/ˈɡambəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɡɑmboʊ/, Welsh English /ˈɡamːboː/ Welsh English and English regional (Herefordshire).
1. A low, flat cart, typically two-wheeled and with the sides consisting only of poles, used for carrying hay, corn, etc., over fields or uneven ground.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > low
trundle1664
truckle1689
truckle-car1748
gambo1836
wynn1863
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides
roll-wainc1503
dray1581
troll1663
dray-cart1710
rulley1759
truck1774
trolley1823
gambo1836
lorry1838
platform car1843
platform wagon1850
trolley-cart1865
float1866
wherry?1881
camion1885
rolley1886
floater1888
sloven1889
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled)
cart1297
marche-donc1799
gambo1836
1836 J. Downes Mt. Decameron I. 50 Gamboo, a sledge without wheels for bringing in the hay harvest.
1872 F. Kilvert Diary 3 July (1944) 188 We saw waiting a horse and gambo and a peasant.
1878 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 10 105/1 Some Radnorshire Words... Gambo, a cart of the very simplest construction.
1887 F. T. Havergal Herefordshire Words 16/1 Gambo, Gamber, or Gambrel, a cart with sides only; no front or back.
1894 Hereford Times 28 July 5/6 Wanted, Timber Haulier, with four horses, waggons, and gamboes.
1963 W. H. Boore Valley & Shadow v. 21 Ten coaches, apart from the hearse, and a gambo from the farm to carry the overflowering of tribute.
1967 Listener 16 Feb. 229/2 I unearthed a two-wheeled hay-wagon, locally known as a gambo.
1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 64 Gambo, farm cart with no front or back.
1996 J. Grenfell-Hill Growing up in Wales 79 There were boys on the farm and they used to give us rides on the gambo.
2. Welsh English. In extended use: any rudimentary, makeshift, or dilapidated vehicle, e.g. a home-made go-cart, an old and decrepit car, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > old, worn-out
crock1903
struggle-buggy1925
heap1926
crate1928
jalopy1929
clunker1930
junker1932
iron1935
fixer-upper1948
bomb1953
banger1962
hooptie1968
skedonk1970
gambo1971
1971 Planet Summer 92 Win this banger in a raffle? I can't afford a Hong Kong gambo.
1985 J. Edwards Talk Tidy 21 Gambo,..used in Wenglish to mean a vehicle which is lacking in refinement and performance; ‘That car's a bit of a gambo, like!’
1986 J. Edwards More Talk Tidy 25 Gambo,..I have rightly been taken to task for not including its use as the word for a homemade wooden cart, usually with old pram wheels. ‘Gambo’ was the word applied, also to bicycles and even cars in a state of some disrepair.
2010 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 18 May 8 The event [sc. a competition for home-made go-carts], staged at Ynysfach Primary School, Resolven, will also feature a prize for the best-dressed gambo.
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General attributive and instrumental.
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1945 D. Thomas Let. 30 July in Sel. Lett. (1966) 278 There's his brown hen cluck in the gambo-swished mud.
1950 D. Thomas in Botteghe Oscure 6 336 Butter fat goosegirls, bounced in a gambo bed.
2010 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 18 May 8 It will be a case of ready, steady, go-kart when the third annual Gambo Day is staged next month.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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