单词 | rolley |
释义 | rolleyn. English regional (chiefly north-eastern). 1. Mining. A truck without sides used for transporting corves to a shaft. Now historical.Recorded earliest in compounds. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1817 |
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