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1895 Davenport (Iowa) Leader 15 Oct. 4/4 The latest thing in outdoor sports is push ball.

1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 168/2 Pushball was developed out of mere experiments into an organised game about the year 1895 by the Newtown Athletic Club near Boston U.S.A. The ball used is made after the same fashion as the ordinary round football used in the English Association game, but has a diameter of about 6 feet.

1927 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 13/2 A push-ball match will be arranged.

2004 B. J. West & L. A. Griffin Biodynamics x. 242 It is not unlike a huge push ball on a beach being pushed around by a crowd of people.

1877 Manufacturer & Builder Mar. 53/1 A sweep or push-bar then removes them on to boards or a stationary table.

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Push-bar, a bar that sustains a pushing stress.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 7 Feb. 8/1 Pointing to the extra push-bar exits and elaborate fire appliances.

1944 Times 11 Jan. 2/4 A second tractor similar to that at the front, but having a drawbar acting as a push bar between its front towing hitch and the rear bogie.

1995 Freedom: Canada's Guide for Disabled Spring 19/2 Each sled is provided with a foam cushioned Push-Bar for ease of handling on flat terrain.

1868 Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Herald 24 July The billiard match last evening between Prof. Carme and Joseph Vermeulen, at Crosby's music hall, for a stake of $500, 1,500 points, push barred..was won in the forty-third innings by Carme.]

1898 Times 16 Feb. 14/2 At the Egyptian-hall, Piccadilly, yesterday, John Roberts and W. Mitchell resumed their spot and push barred game.

1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 937/2 In the modern spot-barred and push-barred game with a championship table, H. W. Stevenson in April 1904 made 788 against C. Dawson.

1843 Times 14 Sept. 5/3 Thus Gort, Loughrea, Galway, Athenry, &c., with all their chivalry, had a regular ‘rookawn’, a scrambling kind of push-battle.

1898 B. Gregory Side Lights x. 520 In our all-including games, like push-battle, there was one sufficing settlement of all..menaces.

1906 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 16 Nov. (Suppl.) 2042/3 Exchange [motor-cycle]..for good make 25in push bicycle and cash.

1908 Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 9/5 Spring forks, which are considered debatable points on a push bicycle, are now recognised as absolute essentials on the..motor cycle.

1986 N. F. Mott Life in Sci. (1995) iii. 13 I set off with two friends on my bicycle (a push bicycle this time), going through London to Newhaven, across to Dieppe, and with the aim of getting to Venice.

1910 Autocar 11 June 766/2 A scratch race on ‘push bikes’ for A. A. Patrols.

1920 Isis 3 Nov. 3/1 Self-advertisement, or the man who rides a push-bike with both hands in his trouser pockets.

1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird viii. 123 Derek..thought of a push-bike... He didn't want to be followed.

2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! xviii. 214 I remember riding my pushbike past this place, with its gabled tin roof and pale Venetian Red brick walls.

1914 C. Holme Lonely Plough xx. 236 Strenuous figures with bare knees and flapping overcoats push-biked past them.

1918 S. P. B. Mais Schoolmaster's Diary xvi. 253 I ‘push-biked’ the eight miles into Lewes.

2004 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 3 Apr. 8 Special supporters' trains left Euston Station for Leeds Road, 'Uddersfield and one young fan, Bert Cavill, push-biked there and back.

1926 Punch 8 Dec. 643/1 Music, Greek Plays, ‘push-biking’ tours—All figure in his pages.

1972 Guardian 22 Feb. 11/3 If you take to push-biking..you will need some pedal-pushers.

2001 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 27 Feb. 17 My fitness isn't that bad. I've done a lot of pushbiking.

1906 Daily Chron. 10 Feb. 6/1 Playing a kind of bagatelle or push-board.

1933 Times 16 May 11/4 It was alleged that Field took a ‘push board’ into the room and asked several privates to ‘have a go’ at a penny a time.

1862 J. A. Garfield Let. 10 Mar. in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) (1884) 1st Ser. X. xxii. 28 I can rely on steamboat transportation to this point for nearly a month yet; after which a fleet of push boats can be used.

1881 Congress. Rec. 15 Feb. 1685/1 They want to have the stream made so that it can be navigable for..old-fashioned stern-wheel steamers, push-boats, or whatever they may desire.

1928 P. C. Chambliss in J. Schoettle Sailing Craft 202 The patent stern affords means of fixing davits by which bugeyes may hoist their motor yawls or push boats.

1984 G. A. Effinger in Isaac Asimov's Sci. Fiction Mag. Jan. 106 Denise arrived in New Orleans and sat at the foot of the levee and watched the pushboats shoving barges against the Mississippi.

1892 N.-Y. Evangelist 26 May 7/2 As the quality of the pavements improved, the use of a..‘push broom’ in the hands of a laborer, became a possibility.

1894 Washington Post 11 July 8/1 He asks..to put on four scraper men, one broomer from Four-and-a-half to Fifteenth streets, and one cart,..and also that each cart be provided with a push broom.

1955 Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel 30 June 5 (advt.) Push broom... Tough palmyra and tampico bristles.

2001 B. Weeks Curling for Dummies iii. 39 As the switch to push brooms took hold in Canada, ice conditions improved considerably, which led to better shot-making.

1867 N.Y. Times 18 July 7/4 2 Push Cars.

1884 B. Nye Baled Hay 225 A section-crew..riding down that mountain on a push-car.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 331 Edy..was rocking the chubby baby to and fro in the pushcar.

1984 Comprehensive Railroad Dict. (Railway Age) 117 Push Car, a four-wheeled work car, designed to be pushed by hand; sometimes used as a trailer with a motor car, and supplied to maintenance employees for transporting materials too heavy to be carried on a hand car.

1997 Irish Times (Nexis) 21 June (Weekend Suppl.) 2 The baby was asleep in the pushcar.

2004 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. 22 Most of the locals travel by rail. But not in trains. No, the local line doesn't have a locomotive, so they use pushcars and autos fitted with steel wheels.

1853 Independent (N.Y.) 17 Feb. 1/8 The keeper of one of these lodging establishments, when a man comes to him for employment, will supply him with a basket or ‘push-cart’, and send him out to fill it with rags and bones in the streets, for which he pays him about a quarter or half what they are worth.

1897 F. Moss Amer. Metropolis III. ix. 202 The visitor may stand at one point and see without moving..sidewalk merchants and push-cart vendors.

1909 Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 5/4 She ran into the..street, and there found the push-cart, and saw the man hurrying away with the baby wrapped up in a travelling rug.

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Oct. 16/3 (advt.) Child's wicker push-cart, price $5.

1931 J. T. Adams Epic of Amer. xii. 346 Many of the other ‘great’ bankers..had the souls of pushcart peddlers.

1995 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Apr. b5/6 Our business is strictly industrial. We don't have the guy in the push cart or the pickup truck.

1952 A. Martinet in Word 8 11 It may often be difficult to tell whether we have to do with a B→A→ chain, or drag-chain, or an A→C→ chain, or push-chain.

1969 R. D. King Hist. Linguistics & Generative Gram. viii. 194 If one rejects the gradualness of phonological change..and the notion that language abhors merger, push chains are deprived of their major source of plausibility.

1999 R. Sampson Nasal Vowel Evol. in Romance viii. 201 The movement seen here largely replicates what appears to be happening in the system of oral vowels where a general push-chain has been detected to be at work in dialects of the Algarve.

1893 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Leader 5 July 5/3 A Jackson county editor got into a push chair at the World's Fair and fell asleep.

1919 Times 29 Aug. 7/3 When she tried to turn round the corner at the bottom of the lane, the ‘push chair’ fell over and the baby was thrown out in to the footpath.

1963 Times 25 May 9/5 As the mothers come out of the shops they pop sweets into the mouths of the two-year-olds sitting in pushchairs.

2004 Independent 7 Aug. 42/1 Children in pushchairs [are] must-have items if you're gay in San Francisco.

1905 Daily Chron. 1 June 3/6 Anyone who has tried it, knows that a motor-cycle is as comfortable as a ‘push-cycle’ over the same piece of road, at double the speed.

1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings ii. 32 He had the body on the floor of the tonneau and on top of it he had a push-cycle, which has left tarry marks on the cushions.

2006 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 31 Aug. 9 j Myles Davis..gets excited and leaps to get a ride on the push cycle with his other friends.

1912 Times 10 Sept. 58/5 The effort needed by the push-cyclist for the propulsion of cycle and trailer was too wearing.

1927 Daily Express 27 Dec. 3/7 A push-cyclist..writes to protest against being forced to show a red light behind.

2003 Central Coast Express (Austral.) (Nexis) 6 June How about making pedestrians and push cyclists more accountable for their actions?

1912 Times 1 Oct. 12/8 Mr. Ritchie's push drives to the junction of the side-line and the service-line look guileless enough, but if the return is straight it has to cross the net at its highest.

1920 D. J. Knight in P. F. Warner Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) i. 28 If the ball is not struck on the half-volley, but a little later, it [sc. the drive] becomes what is known as the push drive, and is in fact the ordinary forward shot.

1938 Times 26 Apr. 7/6 He showed that he possesses a variety of strokes, the most profitable of which is a kind of push drive through the covers which brought him many runs.

2005 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 22 Dec. 24 He played on via an indeterminate push-drive which lacked noticeable foot movement.

1938 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 43 933 There exist, then, in agriculture—or more precisely in rural society—stimuli to migration which may be looked at as ‘pressure’ or ‘push’ factors, operative over long periods of time.

1966 G. Sjoberg in N. J. Smelser & S. M. Lipset Social Structure & Mobility in Econ. Devel. viii. 243 Social scientists, in discussing underdeveloped countries, tend to stress the push factor, especially the economic one.

2003 N.Y. Times 7 Dec. iii. 6/1 The push factors, or negatives for the United States market, include high prices for stocks, a high level of government debt and the weak dollar.

1908 J. G. Horner Henley's Encycl. Pract. Engin. VII. 99/1 Shaft Couplings... The fit must be perfect for all couplings to interchange on all shafts. They must be just a push fit.

1918 D. T. Hamilton Gages ii. 38 Push fits..are for shafts that are forced into a hole by hand and that would be free to rotate without seizing, but not free enough to rotate under anything but a very slow speed.

1936 O. Adams Elem. Diesel Engin. ix. 234 When the fit is made it is essential that the push fit allowance for clearance be such as will cause a considerable contraction of the inside diameter of the bushing.

1990 D. Holloway Which? Bk. Plumbing & Central Heating (rev. ed.) ii. 23/3 Plastic push-fit fittings can also be used for joining copper pipe.

2000 Plumbing Mag. May–June 30/2 A push-fit pipe system made from cross linked polyethylene.

1900 G. D. Hiscox Horseless Vehicles ii. 37 The movement..was made by a push-foot connection from a three-throw crank shaft.

1909 Horseless Age 3 Mar. 305/1 The inlet and exhaust valves are manually operated, the inlet valve being located in a dome directly above the exhaust valve chamber, and operated by means of a push-foot upon a vertically moving rod.

1844 H. Cockton Sylvester Sound ix. 64 He had never been taught to read; but he had been taught the game of push-halfpenny.

1909 Times 6 Mar. 4/1 What were the clerks to do before its arrival..? Play push-halfpenny till the postman comes.

1997 M. J. Rossi James Herriot v. 105 He regularly loses at the game of push-ha'penny that Helen has had years of experience playing.

1904 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Evening Sentinel 10 Sept. 12/2 The chauffeur..getting a good ‘push hold’ against the rear wheels of the wagon, proceeded to help the young fellows on their way home.

1957 R. G. Collomb Dict. Mountaineering 122 Push Hold. (American.) A pressure hold.

1976 D. Clark Dread & Water v. 107 Zoom lens showing handholds—push hold, jug-handle, fingers clenched on a small hold.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1836/2 Push-hole (Glass-making), a hole in the flattening-furnace for annealing and flattening plate-glass.

1900 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 12 Jan. 2/7 We know..Mr. Bryan's backers here put up ‘hush’ money and ‘push’ money.

1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle (1940) xxx. 296 I was getting twenty-eight a week and my push money extra.

1960 V. Packard Waste Makers (1961) xix. 231 The spiff or PM is the ‘push money’ offered as a reward for each item of the brand sold.

1990 A. Toffler Powershift iii. ix. 99 The store now compels manufacturers to pay what is known as ‘push money’ for space.

2004 C. W. Lamb et al. Essent. Marketing (ed. 4) xiii. 479 Intermediaries receive push money as a bonus for pushing the manufacturer's brand through the distribution channel. Often the push money is directed toward a retailer's salespeople.

1890 T. C. Chamberlin in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 1 28 A glacier deposits material at its margin in three ways: (1) It pushes matter forward mechanically, ridging it at its edge, forming what may be termed push moraines.

1979 J. Rabassa et al. in C. Schlüchter Moraines & Varves 68/2 The ice front had already advanced over the proximal part of the fluvioglacial plain.., bulldozing its upper sedimentary cover into a set of push-moraines.

1990 Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 101 187 The Cromer Ridge is a prominent landform..which is interpreted as a push moraine complex formed during the Anglian Glaciation.

1922 Times 25 Feb. 14/1 (advt.) The ‘ATCO’ motor mower is as easy to understand as a push-mower.

2001 T. O'Farrell Behind Enemy Lines i. 7 My home chores involved..mowing the grass with the ancient push mower, and babysitting my younger brothers.

1919 Times 24 Sept. 4/6 They were very fast sides and played very robust hockey... They founded..a school of their own which was the very opposite of the school to which Hampstead, Beckenham, and Blackheath belonged—the school of the push pass and delicate short strokes.

1963 Times 25 Feb. 4/3 Their forwards..used the push-pass far too often on a surface which demanded hard hitting.

1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 6 (advt.) Push pass... There are at least 26 familiar football terms in this puzzle.

1996 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 31 Oct. b8 Jenna Hubbard and Ali Kelly, using powerful push-passes, put the offensive front line into scoring position.

1856 Times 8 Nov. 6/6 There is a custom which has been upheld from time immemorial by the Dean and Chapter of Durham on three days in the year, which is pretty generally known among the lads of this city as ‘push penny’. On these days the Chapter causes 20 shillings in copper to be scrambled for in the college yard by the juvenile citizens.

1872 B. Jerrold London xviii. 146 Benches where they are playing push-penny.

1876 G. Bell Brit. Pop. Customs 303 At the end of the service a regular pell-mell rush was made for the cloister doors, in order to be present at ‘push-penny’.

1975 Country Life 11 Dec. 1677/4 I am..looking for examples of the following regional inn sports: aunt sally (Oxfordshire)..push penny (Lincolnshire)..actually played in English pubs today.

1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's ix. 99 Alongside the carnival was the circus, favoured by some over the push-penny and the roundabouts.

1964 Eng. Stud. 45 23 The pulpit is in the bows; a similar device at the stern has become known..as a push-pit.

1976 Sea Spray (N.Z.) Dec. 90/1 (advt.) It does not get chipped or rattle against the pushpit.

1998 Yachts & Yachting 10 July 106/1 (advt.) Pulpit, pushpit, rails and dodgers,..road trailer and lighting board, ready for season.

1918 Man 18 5/1 It would appear that, if needed, the posterior region of the specimens might have been used as a push-plane.

1928 V. G. Childe Most Anc. East iii. 54 A steep-ended scraper or push-plane.

1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) v. 214 Wood-working equipment, manifested most notably in heavy bifaces and picks and in high-backed push-planes.

2006 T. Meshveliani et al. in P. J. Brantingham et al. Early Upper Paleolithic beyond W. Europe ix. 135 Bourlon and Bouyssonie..coined the term ‘rabot’ based on the general morphological similarity with a woodworking push-plane.

1890 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Despatch 8 Sept. The doors have brass push plates on both sides.

1963 W. C. Huntington Building Constr. (ed. 3) xv. 661 Push plates or door pulls are provided on the closing stile as required.

1999 Jrnl. Law & Econ. 42 634 Protection plates, push-pull bars, and lock trim are assumed to make up half of the $140 million of expenditures in the category that also includes push plates.

1994 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 29 July 5 a [He] also continues to be outraged by a ‘push poll’..that was designed to alert voters to..[his] alleged political failures.

2004 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 May a6/1 Liberal strategists are busy conducting ‘push polls’ in this pre-election period.

1994 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 7 Oct. 1 b An election campaigning tactic that might be coming to a phone near you. It's called push polling and the goal is to drop tidbits of naughty accusations against one candidate to sway the caller toward another.

2001 D. W. Johnson No Place for Amateurs v. 113 A disturbing trend is the practice of push-polling, in which anonymous telephone surveyors serve as campaign shills.

1977 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 23 July 3/2 (advt.) The 200 can be ‘push-processed’ to 400 speed... Dealer can sell you a kit, including directions for ‘push-processing’.

1997 Photo Answers Mar. 35/4 Colour slide films and black & white films are the easiest to uprate because most processing labs are happy to push process them.

1966 Third Here's How (Eastman Kodak Co.) 13 For decades photographers have attempted to increase the effective speed of color films by ‘push’ processing.

1997 Photo Answers Mar. 34/1 Push processing..is an invaluable technique that will help you out of numerous tricky situations, put paid to poor lighting, and even help you create eye-catching images in their own right.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 4/2 The inlet-valves are..placed immediately above the exhaust-valves, and actuated by rockers and vertical push-rods.

1934 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 38 191 Push rod valve mechanism for air~cooled engines..has been almost universally adopted during the last few years.

1973 Times 18 Oct. 35/3 The Polski 125P saloon..has the same body as the old Fiat 125 and a 1500cc push rod engine.

1990 Peterson's 4-wheel & Off-road May 35/2 The lobes activate a train of components that includes the lifters, the pushrods, the rocker arms and, finally, the valves themselves.

1865 Appleton (Wisconsin) Motor 20 July The first game was won by the former.., the 2d with the push shot barred, by Coon.

1867 Galaxy Aug. 420 A vile infringement of the rules [of croquet] is what is called the ‘push shot’. There is but one single authority on the game who sanctions it, yet we believe it is the most universally infringed rule of them all.

1896 Times 14 Feb. 11/1 We have observed that in some of the reports of billiard matches which have appeared of late in one of the sporting newspapers the push shot is described as a foul stroke.

1909 P. A. Vaile Mod. Golf v. 84 The push-shot is a dead straight ball, one of the straightest when well played.

1925 Country Life 15 Aug. 244/2 The push shots or placing shots... You can steer and guide these strokes with tolerable accuracy.

1988 I. Morrison Billiards & Snooker 41/1 Push shots are not allowed in snooker.

2001 S. Armitage Little Green Man (2002) iii. 8 But every English kid I knew used a sort of nudging movement with the side of the index finger, a kind of shove-ha'penny, putting action, the footballing equivalent of the push-shot.

1938 Pinedale (Wyoming) Roundup 27 Oct. Should a run down battery or other emergency situation necessitate a ‘push start’.

1952 Times 9 June 2/4 His two mechanics gave him a push start just as the flag fell.

1973 Advocate-News (Barbados) 29 June 3/3 (advt.) Maybe you have an idea. And all it needs is a push-start to get it off the ground.

1996 E. Lovelace Salt xii. 220 They could find nobody so they pushed the truck back on to the road, placed Emerald in the driver's seat,..gave the truck a push start and went back to their homes.

1957 S. Moss In Track of Speed xiv. 182 Mechanics rushed out and push-started us.

1965 D. Lodge Brit. Mus. is falling Down vi. 107 He prepared to push-start his scooter.

1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Dec. 14 Consumers need to spend money and lots of it to push-start the economy.

2003 Oxf. Amer. Jan–Feb. 82/3 He said maybe then we could push-start the truck, and he must have known better, the transmission was automatic.

1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 309 Push strokes may be divided into the half-push and the push.

1884 W. Cook Billiards 64 In order to play the push stroke successfully, it is necessary to hold the cue [etc.].

1901 Daily News 1 Feb. 8/7 When the Prince was holing a short put at the home green, he cautioned his Royal Highness against giving the ball a push stroke.

1925 Country Life 15 Aug. 244/2 If the ball be pitched well up, simply lean out towards it..and..play a crouching push stroke at it, and it will travel between mid-on and square-leg.

1944 T. S. C. Dagg Hockey in Ireland viii. 196 The Rev. F. C. Stocks, the great English left half back and originator of the push stroke, was a master at the school.

1984 Times 24 Oct. 23/7 Francisco declared a push-stroke against himself in the second frame.

1947 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 26 Sept. 3/6 The telephone is of the ‘push-to-talk’ type, having a small button located in the middle of the instrument. The driver alternately pushes this button to talk and releases it to listen.

1983 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 3 Oct. 27 (caption) A trim control button and a push-to-talk switch for the pilot's microphone are incorporated on the controller.

2003 R. Chepesiuk Bullet or Bribe iv. 256 Today's criminals are using the Internet and push to talk radios as their main means of communication.

1955 F. Marbury Push-towing in Waves (M.S. thesis, Mass. Inst. Technol.) i. 1 The standard river pushtow cannot operate in waves.

1964 Marine Engin. Log July 59/1 The economy and flexibility of push-tow operations are gaining favor with Japanese maritime interests.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia III. 758/2 These assemblies of unpowered and individually unmanned barges are known, somewhat illogically, as push tows.

1996 D. Hilling Transport & Developing Countries ii. 70 The problems of the use of large push-tow units in Paraguay have already been noted.

1955 Bull. Soc. Naval Architects & Marine Engineers Feb. 12/1 Single-screw tugs have been push-towing for many years.

1970 1st Internat. Tug Conf. 1969 272/1 Petroleum barges could be push-towed.

1991 Mining Ann. Rev. (Nexis) June 61 Tugs will push-tow 8,000 t capacity barges to an interchange at New Amsterdam at the mouth of the Berbice river.

1955 F. Marbury Push-towing in Waves (M.S. thesis, Mass. Inst. Technol.) vi. 22 The basic conclusion..is that as far as these tests extend pushtowing in waves is feasible.

1959 G. J. Walker Traffic & Transport in Nigeria iii. 47 ‘Push-towing’ has now become the accepted practice. Power craft have two barges lashed to the forequarters, a third being pushed ahead.

1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Mar. 40/5 The tugs are intended for use in..push-towing of such barges in moderate sea conditions.

1996 D. Hilling Transport & Developing Countries ii. 56 Push-towing was experimented with in Europe in the nineteenth century..but it was in America on the Mississippi that the technology was developed most fully and on a scale not found elsewhere.