| 单词 | hell-cart |
| 释义 | > as lemmashell-cart hell-cart n. slang (now chiefly historical) a cart or carriage, esp. a hackney carriage. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hackney carriage hackney coach1618 hell-cart1623 hackney1664 hack1692 fiacre1699 hackney carriage1735 dilly1805 street coach1818 jarvey1819 cab1822 hackney cab1832 gurney1884 cabriolet1907 1623 J. Taylor World runnes on Wheeles sig. A2v You haue borne a heauy share in the Calamitie which these hyred Hackney hell-Carts haue put this Common-wealth vnto. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. i. 36 The Ladies in the Hell Carts screem'd out for their Hector. 1703 T. Brown et al. Contin. Lett. from Dead to Living (new ed.) 176 They faggotted up my Thumbs together, and tumbl'd me into a Hell-Cart. 1939 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 16 July 3 Today this hell-cart would be regarded as a clumsy joke. 2004 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 27 Feb. 10 Bad liquor was ‘hell-broth’, a hackney carriage a ‘hell-cart’. < as lemmas |
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