| 单词 | big rig |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbig rig a. Originally and chiefly North American. Originally: a horse-drawn vehicle, frequently including attendants, horses, and harness. Later: any (usually large) vehicle, esp. an articulated truck, or the hauling part of this. Cf. tractor-trailer n. at tractor n. Compounds 2. Also in big rig. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > [noun] chariot1594 vehiculum?1632 triumphal1633 vehicle1656 machinament1674 machine1759 rig1831 shebang1872 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] carc1320 chara1400 charet?a1400 wagon1542 carry1600 rotan1676 messagerie1777 pillbox1789 bandy1791 Pennsylvania wagon1800 gharry1810 rath1813 vardo1819 rig1831 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > with its draught animals plough1505 team1641 Yarmouth coacha1661 rig1831 yoke1894 hitch1912 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry rig1831 lorry1911 truck1916 camion1922 1831 A. Stoddard Diary 30 Nov. in Michigan Hist. Mag. (1927) 11 472 Breakfast swallowed we stepped into our next rig, which was a lumber wagon. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvi. 325 I've heard tell of carriages all my life... I mean to have the nobbiest rig that's going. 1885 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 16 110 One part of the team (or ‘rig’, as they say west of the Hudson). 1894 C. L. Johnstone Canada 64 I hired a ‘rig’ or ‘buckboard’ for 3 dollars to take me as far as Carlton. 1931 H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt i. i. 4 A rig had been..summoned from a near-by stable. 1938 Amer. Speech 13 307 Rig, also a designation for any bus. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. iii. 16 A great big tough truckdriver..got his rig under way. 1974 Times 11 Feb. 6/7 Mr Nixon came on the air..to urge the drivers to get their ‘big rigs’ back on the road. 1976 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 11 Apr. b1/1 Fifteen seconds after the alarm sounded, both the fire truck and paramedic rig were rolling. 2001 Time 22 Oct. 45/3 Drivers of rigs hauling dangerous loads must have both a commercial driver's license and a hazardous-material..endorsement from a state. < as lemmas |
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