单词 | lumber-wagon |
释义 | > as lemmaslumber-wagon lumber-wagon n. North American a springless wagon of a type used for hauling lumber or for general transport (see also quot. 1962). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon (usually four-wheeled) > other types telega1579 trewerne1667 box wagon1825 lumber-wagon1831 morphoditea1852 Flanders wagon1855 1831 A. Stoddard Diary 30 Nov. in Michigan Hist. Mag. (1927) 11 472 Breakfast swallowed we stepped into our next rig, which was a lumber wagon drawn by two very good horses. 1842 M. Crawford Jrnl. 5 Left Buffalo at 11 o'clock in the morning in a lumber waggon on our way to the steam boat. 1849 N. P. Willis Rural Lett. xix. 165 So over the hills I jolted—three days and nights in springless lumber wagons. 1862 O. W. Norton Army Lett. 106 Great covered wagons as large as two of our lumber wagons. 1887 C. D. Warner Their Pilgrimage (1888) xiii. 288 At this season one meets them [sc. the hop-pickers] on all the roads driving from farm to farm in lumber wagons. 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 1 Gathered about the little village station in hard~seated lumber-wagons. 1961 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. 24 July 11/7 They forded the North Saskatchewan River in a lumber wagon. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 270 Lumber wagon, an old, broken-down automobile, particularly one that rides rough. < as lemmas |
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