| 单词 | spring cart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspring cart (b) Designating a vehicle, with the sense ‘having springs, suspended on springs’, as spring coach, spring carriage, spring cart, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xlvi. 232 The nicest Pieces of Work is Springs for Spring-Coaches. 1794 Gentleman's Mag. 64 Suppl. 1074 The best thing to be done generally..is to put the patient into a spring-waggon. 1837 W. B. Adams Eng. Pleasure Carriages 117 The tax to which spring vehicles are subject. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 386 C-springs..were formerly used for almost all kinds of spring-carriages. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 6 Apr. A couple of spring ambulances, drawn by four horses apiece. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. x. 86 A spring-van is delivering its load of greenhouse plants at the door. 1963 New Castle (Pa.) News 31 Dec. 2/3 Four or five of them took off in a spring wagon and traveled about 16 miles before they heard Morgan had been captured. 2016 Inverell (Austral.) Times (Nexis) 4. Feb. The old bush school was six or seven miles away and we had a horse and a spring cart to take us. < as lemmas |
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