| 单词 | slip-compartment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslip-compartment c. In the sense ‘detached, or intended to be detached, from a railway train while running’, as slip-carriage, slip-coach, slip-compartment, slip-portion. Hence slip-guard, the guard of such a carriage, etc. Also in connection with other vehicles and craft, as slip-tank n., a fuel tank that may be jettisoned from an aircraft when empty. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > coach intended to be detached slip-coach1869 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > fuel tank slip-tank1869 belly tank1940 1869 Echo 23 Aug. A ‘slip’ carriage placed in the rear of the train, which is dropped at Hatfield. 1884 G.W.R. Time Tables July 33 Slip Coach detached at Bridgewater. 1898 Daily News 11 Oct. 8/1 Entering the slip compartment, one finds little to differentiate it from a small guard's van. 1898 Daily News 11 Oct. 8/1 Where the detached slip-portion has collided with the train it has just left. 1920 Flight 12 957/1 Seventeen tanks may be readily slipped overboard to act as ballast. These slip-tanks have no bottom connections, and petrol is drawn from them by means of a semi-rotary pump. 1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 8 The party..belonged to the slip-coach for Athens. 1978 Lancs. Life Apr. 52/2 The L & Y..brought in slip coaches, notably at Rochdale where two trains from Bradford to Manchester unhitched the back two coaches without stopping. < as lemmas |
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