| 单词 | jaunting-car | 
| 释义 | jaunting-carn.  A light, two-wheeled vehicle, popular in Ireland, now carrying four persons seated two on each side, either back to back ( outside jaunting-car) or facing each other ( inside jaunting-car), with a seat in front for the driver. Formerly made for a larger number of passengers: see quot. 18052. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > 			[noun]		 > types of carriage > with seats facing the side jaunting-car1805 sidecar1845 outside car1849 outsider1900 1805    W. Felton Treat. Carriages 		(ed. 3)	 II. App. §3. 5  				There has been introduced some of a foreign description, called German Waggons, and Jaunting Carrs. 1805    W. Felton Treat. Carriages 		(ed. 3)	 II. App. §3. 6  				The Jaunting Carr is a one horse carriage..so contrived as to carry many passengers; intended for gentlemen to go a pleasuring with their families, they driving themselves.. The body is made to project over the wheels, is of a round form, and capacious enough to hold five or six persons comfortable, besides the driver, forming, as it were, a small apartment, and will even afford a small table to stand in the middle. 1829    Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 25 771/2  				There is a vehicular machine, peculiar, I believe, to Ireland called ‘an outside jaunting-car!’ 1842    S. Lover Handy Andy i  				He..drove out the nurse and children on the jaunting-car. 1883    S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 303  				In general there was no way of travelling except by the old jaunting-car. 1894    H. Caine Manxman 351  				A company of jolly fellows in a jaunting-car. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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