| 单词 | posting carriage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasposting carriage a. In sense 1, as posting carriage, posting charge, posting inn, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach posting carriage1556 wagon1615 post-coach1636 stagecoach1658 flying coach1669 stage1671 wagon-coach1675 stage-wagon1681 post-car1694 post-wagon1694 post calash1703 fly1708 post-carriage1720 post-stage1738 diligence1742 flying machine1764 machine1769 mail coach1785 dilly1786 mail stage1792 high-flyer1799 post-equipage1813 post vehicle1815 tally-ho coach1831 mail packeta1837 flying carriage1849 stager1852 mail-hack1909 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc. schooleOE hospitalc1300 khanc1400 xenodochy?c1550 posting inn1556 vent1577 caravanserai1585 yam1587 serai1609 venta1610 post-house1611 xenodochium1612 imaret1613 seraglio1617 rancho1648 hospitium1650 watering-house1664 choultry1698 accommodation house1787 stage-house1788 spital1794 stand1805 resthouse1807 hospice1818 resting1879 stopping house1883 truck stop1961 1556Posting charge [see sense 1a]. 1793 T. Pennant Lit. Life 121 I have a respect for the plan of the mail-coaches, and for the inventors; but I never could think of applying to him as the..regulator of the posting-empire. 1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. II. 54 There is no posting inn, in the place! and only one chaise kept for hire. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 210 The Winglebury arms..is the principal inn of Great Winglebury—the commercial inn, posting-house, and excise-office. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xx. 256 They had a posting carriage at the porch. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlvi. 232 I think the best posting-house at this end of the town is Tempett's. 1899 A. H. Sayce Early Israel v. 160 Carriage roads were constructed with posting inns at intervals along them. 1913 A. Dobson Coll. Poems 23 Wherever Purity found abode, 'Twas certainly not on a posting road. 1931 E. Bliss Saraband i. 75 It had once been a posting inn; a hundred years ago people had stopped to change their horses here on the way to London. 1991 National Trust Mag. Spring 50/1 (advt.) 16th Century Posting House, with real log fires, friendly atmosphere. 2003 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 10 Aug. 1 Cheap wine and mass-produced beer are a no-no in the 19th Century former posting inn, run by Suffolk brewer Adnams. < as lemmas |
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