shandryn.
/ˈʃandri/ north-western dialect.
A light cart or trap on springs. Also shandry cart.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > two-wheeled
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shandry1802
trap1807
tilbury1814
dennet1818
chaise-cart1821
spring-cart1823
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jockey-cart1840
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1802 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. iv. 95 Dud the cusen keep a horse an a shanderee?
18.. J. Briggs Rem. (1825) 93 (E.D.D.) We hired a shandry to carry us to Little Langdale.
1836 G. Head Home Tour 427 I saw this happy couple drive away from the inn together, in a light shandry cart.
1859 E. C. Gaskell Haunted House: Ghost in Garden Room in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 13 Dec. 45/2 I'll drive yo' in the shandry.
a1865 E. C. Gaskell Sexton's Hero in Cousin Phillis, etc. 280 We borrowed a shandry, and harnessed my old grey mare.
1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. Shandray, a one-horse carriage.
1888 Bury Times 1 Sept. 6 Damages to a milk shandry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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