单词 | haulage |
释义 | haulagen. 1. The action or process of hauling or pulling; the traction or conveyance of a load in a wagon or other vehicle; the amount of force expended in hauling (quot. 1883). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > [noun] trainage1611 overhaul1625 tow1793 trackage1820 traction1822 haulage1826 the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling drawingc1300 draughta1398 pullinga1425 draggingc1440 halingc1440 lugging?a1500 attraction1578 toilingc1600 trainage1611 hale1615 traction1615 hauling1626 trail1674 tracting1780 haulage1826 pull1833 drawal1936 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] loadc1000 freight1463 carriage?1523 running1825 haulage1826 long haul1839 freighting1856 freightage1872 transport-riding1900 1826 J. Adamson Sketches Information Rail-roads 39 The company have actually let the haulage of their coal. 1857 S. Smiles Life G. Stephenson ix. 81 The haulage was both tedious and expensive. 1883 Manch. Examiner 7 Nov. 5/5 The impossible gradient of one in 25..is.. denounced..as the haulage would have to be trebled, and three horses employed in place of one. 2. The expense of or charge for hauling. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > carriage of goods, etc. > in wheeled vehicle wheelage1808 haulage1864 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1869 Sat. Rev. 19 June 822 He estimates his pair of cottages..at 205l. plus the haulage. 3. ‘A traction-way’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as haulage clip (see quot. 1883), haulage-engine, haulage-power, haulage-road, haulage-rope, haulage-work. ΚΠ 1864 Reader 7 May 594 The diminution of haulage power owing to the wheels becoming rail-bound. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Haulage Clip, levers, jaws, wedges, etc., by which trams, singly or in trains, are connected to the hauling ropes. 1896 Mrs. H. Ward Sir George Tressady 555 The air in the haulage road was clearing fast. 1909 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 1/3 A haulage engine..was taking a load of bricks up the steep gradient. 1909 Daily Chron. 30 Sept. 1/5 The flood carried away the haulage engine at the entrance of the level. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826 |
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