jenny carriagen.

Brit.

/ˈdʒɛnɪ ˌkarɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈdʒɛni ˌkɛrɪdʒ/

Forms: 1800s–1900s ginny carriage, 1800s– jenny carriage.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: jenny n., carriage n.

Etymology: < jenny n. (compare jenny n. II.) + carriage n.With the form ginny carriage perhaps compare gin n.¹

Now historical.

A stout wooden or iron carriage, used for conveying materials along a railway. Cf. jenny rail n.

ΚΠ

1820 L. L. Cameron Hist. Marten & Two Little Scholars ii. 12 On Sunday morning he looked so clean..that nobody would have thought he had been driving a jenny-carriage all the week.

1867 H. Stretton Clives of Burcot II. i. 2 She had been accustomed to drive, and ride like a boy, those [horses] which drew the jenny carriages to and from the pits.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 969/2 Ginny-carriage, a railway car for conveying materials.

1904 P. N. Hasluck Builders' Hoisting Machinery iii. 35 There is a jenny carriage..made of cast-iron, running on four double-flanged wheels.

1920 A. H. Fay Gloss. Mining & Mineral Industry (U.S. Bureau of Mines) Bull. 95 304/1 Ginny rails..Track rails for ginny carriages.

1973 B. S. Trinder Industr. Revol. in Shropshire viii. 124 Jenny carriages were in use around the Horsehay furnaces in January 1797.

2003 B. Trinder in Early Railways 2 16 In 1799 it was forecast that the introduction of jenny carriages on the railways into Coalbrookdale would halve the cost of transporting raw materials to the works.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	jenny carriage
释义	jenny carriagen. Brit. /ˈdʒɛnɪ ˌkarɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛni ˌkɛrɪdʒ/ Forms: 1800s–1900s ginny carriage, 1800s– jenny carriage. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: jenny n., carriage n. Etymology: < jenny n. (compare jenny n. II.) + carriage n.With the form ginny carriage perhaps compare gin n.¹ Now historical. A stout wooden or iron carriage, used for conveying materials along a railway. Cf. jenny rail n. ΚΠ 1820 L. L. Cameron Hist. Marten & Two Little Scholars ii. 12 On Sunday morning he looked so clean..that nobody would have thought he had been driving a jenny-carriage all the week. 1867 H. Stretton Clives of Burcot II. i. 2 She had been accustomed to drive, and ride like a boy, those [horses] which drew the jenny carriages to and from the pits. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 969/2 Ginny-carriage, a railway car for conveying materials. 1904 P. N. Hasluck Builders' Hoisting Machinery iii. 35 There is a jenny carriage..made of cast-iron, running on four double-flanged wheels. 1920 A. H. Fay Gloss. Mining & Mineral Industry (U.S. Bureau of Mines) Bull. 95 304/1 Ginny rails..Track rails for ginny carriages. 1973 B. S. Trinder Industr. Revol. in Shropshire viii. 124 Jenny carriages were in use around the Horsehay furnaces in January 1797. 2003 B. Trinder in Early Railways 2 16 In 1799 it was forecast that the introduction of jenny carriages on the railways into Coalbrookdale would halve the cost of transporting raw materials to the works. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1820
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