单词 | mulligan battery |
释义 | > as lemmasmulligan battery 2. Originally: a railway carriage which transports food to workers. Later: a railway carriage which transports workers to and from work. Also mulligan battery, mulligan car, mulligan wagon. Now historical. ΚΠ 1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 309/2 Mulligan battery, the cook wagon. 1938 S. H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw (1939) 262 Mulligan car, railroad car where midday lunch is served. 1942 R. L. Haig-Brown Timber Gloss. 404 Crummy (see also ‘Gut Wagon’ or ‘Mulligan Wagon’; all three are in common use), a box car or an old caboose converted to passenger carrying by the addition of a few wooden benches, and used to carry the men to and from work. 1950 Western Folklore 9 119 Mulligan wagon, The truck, flatcar, or any other means of transportation to and from work. 1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 119 At one time hot noon meals were brought out to the men in the woods. A specially fitted railroad car was used for this purpose, known as a mulligan, from the mulligan or soup which it carried. Later the men were hauled to camp instad of taking the meal to the men at noon, and mulligan became any crew carrier. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 134 In the early days of logging, the noon meals were taken out to the men in the woods in a special car called the mulligan... Later the term was applied to the caboose or to any car that transported men from the woods to the cookhouse. 2010 S. Rambeau Georgetown vii. 109 The small white car directly behind the engine is a ‘Mulligan’ car, a specially built refrigerator car..used to bring perishable goods,..usually supplying the logging camp cooks. < as lemmas |
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