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单词 rolley
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rolleyn.

Brit. /ˈrɒli/, U.S. /ˈrɑli/
Forms: 1800s– rolley, 1800s– rolly.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: rulley n.
Etymology: Variant of rulley n. Compare trolley n. and lorry n.
English regional (chiefly north-eastern).
1. Mining. A truck without sides used for transporting corves to a shaft. Now historical.Recorded earliest in compounds.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > vehicle for underground haulage or transportation
tram1517
wagon1649
rolley1817
buggy1867
barney1874
hod1883
whirley1886
shuttle car1905
manrider1967
scooptram1967
1817 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 30 324 The plate rail-ways employed in coal mines, and there called tram and rolley ways.
1835 ‘S. Oliver’ Rambles Northumberland 41 The coal was conveyed away..in corves..to the crane, where they were transferred to rolleys, and drawn by a horse to the shaft. The rolley..is similar in construction to the tram, but larger.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 43 The rolley was contrived as an improvement upon the tram, upon which a single corf was placed.
1900 T. F. Brown Smyth's Rudimentary Treat. Coal & Coal Mining (ed. 8) 179 It was lifted, and placed with several others on a rolley, or larger waggon.
2002 Northern Echo (Nexis) 17 July 6b The rolly probably dates from about 1790, and a miner would have pulled it to and from the coal face along flat wooden rails.
2. A flat wagon; = rulley n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides
roll-wainc1503
dray1581
troll1663
dray-cart1710
rulley1759
truck1774
trolley1823
gambo1836
lorry1838
platform car1843
platform wagon1850
trolley-cart1865
float1866
wherry?1881
camion1885
rolley1886
floater1888
sloven1889
1886 N. Eastern Daily Gaz. 11 Aug. 1/6 Spring Rolleys for removing Furniture.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) ‘A railway rolley’, a large, flat, four-wheeled waggon, used for the street delivery and carriage of merchandize.
1999 Herald & Post (Nexis) 5 Nov. 3 Visitors to one of the North East's premier crafts fairs this Saturday at Earth Balance, the Stakeford environmental park, will have an opportunity to ride in a brand new horse cart or rolley.

Compounds

C1. Mining. General attributive, as rolley-driver, rolley-horse, rolley-road, rolley-way, etc. Now historical.
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1817Rolley-way [see sense 1].
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 982 The rolley driver, with his horse, takes them to the bottom of the engine-shaft.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 982 The rolley horses have a peculiar kind of shafts.
1905 R. W. Moore in J. Wilson Victoria Hist. Cumberland II. 353/2 Where the rolley-road was long there were stages at which there were sidings or pass-byes.
1913 Times 1 Dec. 24/5 At about 5.45 more of the rolley-way men and engine-plane men go down [into the mine].
1999 Northern Echo (Nexis) 24 Feb. 6 Before they were ten, they would be working with the pit ponies; by 13 they would be rolley-drivers.
C2.
rolleyman n. a man employed to drive a rolley.
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1857 Newcastle Courant 2 Jan. 8/5 Mr Henry Sinkler, for many years rolleyman to Mssrs Carver and Co., Newcastle.
1886 N. Eastern Daily Gaz. 11 Aug. 1/3 Wanted,..steady Young Man as Rolleyman.
1940 D. L. Burn Econ. Hist. Steelmaking 1867–1939 viii. 128 Signalmen, platelayers, rolleymen, horse drivers, ‘tacklemen’ for steel structure erection.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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