Stepneyn.

Brit.

/ˈstɛpni/, U.S.

/ˈstɛpni/

Forms: Also stepney.

Etymology: < the name of Stepney Street, Llanelli, the place of manufacture.

1. A spare wheel for a motor vehicle, comprising a ready-inflated tyre on a spokeless metal rim, which could be clamped temporarily over a punctured wheel. Also stepney wheel. Now Historical except in Bangladesh, India, and Malta, where = any spare wheel.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > spare wheel or tyre

stepney wheel1907

spare tyre1917

spare wheel1920

1907 Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 4/3 The popularity of the Stepney Wheel has never been more clearly demonstrated than at the Olympia Show.

1908 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 2) 113 The Stepney spare wheel.

1910 G. K. Chesterton Alarms & Discursions 179 Then he said, ‘And I left the Stepney behind.’

1911 Daily Chron. 5 Jan. 4/7 Wales claims the origin of the ‘stepney’, the spare wheel and tyre.

1914 Motor Cycle 19 Mar. 10 Insure yourself now against punctures by equipping your car with a Stepney.

1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 148/2 The Stepney was fixed in ten minutes.

1928 Evening News 7 Aug. 9/2 None of your detachable wheels, rims, or Stepneys!

1929 H. Nicolson Let. 22 July in J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson (1980) xvi. 376 [In Berlin he was like] a stepney wheel of a car that is seldom taken out of the garage.

1937 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 13) xi. 196 With the introduction of pneumatic tyres came the puncture, and soon the ‘Stepney’ appeared: a spare rim and tyre fitted with clamps.

1971 Listener 11 Nov. 653/1 After jacking up the car, one of them turned to me and said: ‘Have you a Stepney?’ ‘Yes, in the boot,’ I answered... It takes an old Edwardian like me to know that a Stepney was an attachable wheel-rim, which came in about 1907 and went out about ten years later. You wouldn't hear the term in England now, but in Malta it is the ordinary word for a spare wheel.

1973 Opinion (Bombay) July 31 It helps to have a few holes in the roof of the car and to go about without a Stepney.

1975 J. Day Bosch Bk. Motor Car 178 An early attempt to make puncture mending less troublesome was the Stepney spare wheel of T. M. and W. Davies in 1904.

1977 Navbharat Times (Bombay) 2 June (advt.) Yezdi stepney wheel complete with tyre, tube, hub and bearings.

1980 L. Lewis Private Life of Country House iii. 35 About 1920 we bought a secondhand T model Ford... In case of punctures there was a Stepney wheel to be clamped on to the rim to get you home.

2. figurative.

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the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > a substitute

changec1460

supplier1491

quid pro quo?1535

supply1567

vicegerent1583

substitute1589

vice1597

succedane1601

surrogate1644

succedaneum1651

succedaneum1662

vicar1676

superseder?1774

supersessor1810

locum tenens1814

supplial1837

remplaçant1850

fill-in1918

Stepney1928

stand-in1933

substituter1956

1928 E. Sutton tr. A. Londres Road to Buenos Ayres ii. 18 I told her I had a woman already in Buenos Ayres, that she could only be my little sweetheart, as we say, or my ‘stepney’, if you like that better.

1929 E. Linklater Poet's Pub xxvi. 282 Redemption being carried as a kind of stepney on the best of all possible worlds.

1979 P. Nihalani et al. Indian & Brit. Eng. i. 167 Dr X may not be able to give his talk—we'd better arrange for a stepney.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stepney
释义	Stepneyn. Brit. /ˈstɛpni/, U.S. /ˈstɛpni/ Forms: Also stepney. Etymology: < the name of Stepney Street, Llanelli, the place of manufacture. 1. A spare wheel for a motor vehicle, comprising a ready-inflated tyre on a spokeless metal rim, which could be clamped temporarily over a punctured wheel. Also stepney wheel. Now Historical except in Bangladesh, India, and Malta, where = any spare wheel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > spare wheel or tyre stepney wheel1907 spare tyre1917 spare wheel1920 1907 Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 4/3 The popularity of the Stepney Wheel has never been more clearly demonstrated than at the Olympia Show. 1908 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 2) 113 The Stepney spare wheel. 1910 G. K. Chesterton Alarms & Discursions 179 Then he said, ‘And I left the Stepney behind.’ 1911 Daily Chron. 5 Jan. 4/7 Wales claims the origin of the ‘stepney’, the spare wheel and tyre. 1914 Motor Cycle 19 Mar. 10 Insure yourself now against punctures by equipping your car with a Stepney. 1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 148/2 The Stepney was fixed in ten minutes. 1928 Evening News 7 Aug. 9/2 None of your detachable wheels, rims, or Stepneys! 1929 H. Nicolson Let. 22 July in J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson (1980) xvi. 376 [In Berlin he was like] a stepney wheel of a car that is seldom taken out of the garage. 1937 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 13) xi. 196 With the introduction of pneumatic tyres came the puncture, and soon the ‘Stepney’ appeared: a spare rim and tyre fitted with clamps. 1971 Listener 11 Nov. 653/1 After jacking up the car, one of them turned to me and said: ‘Have you a Stepney?’ ‘Yes, in the boot,’ I answered... It takes an old Edwardian like me to know that a Stepney was an attachable wheel-rim, which came in about 1907 and went out about ten years later. You wouldn't hear the term in England now, but in Malta it is the ordinary word for a spare wheel. 1973 Opinion (Bombay) July 31 It helps to have a few holes in the roof of the car and to go about without a Stepney. 1975 J. Day Bosch Bk. Motor Car 178 An early attempt to make puncture mending less troublesome was the Stepney spare wheel of T. M. and W. Davies in 1904. 1977 Navbharat Times (Bombay) 2 June (advt.) Yezdi stepney wheel complete with tyre, tube, hub and bearings. 1980 L. Lewis Private Life of Country House iii. 35 About 1920 we bought a secondhand T model Ford... In case of punctures there was a Stepney wheel to be clamped on to the rim to get you home. 2. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > a substitute changec1460 supplier1491 quid pro quo?1535 supply1567 vicegerent1583 substitute1589 vice1597 succedane1601 surrogate1644 succedaneum1651 succedaneum1662 vicar1676 superseder?1774 supersessor1810 locum tenens1814 supplial1837 remplaçant1850 fill-in1918 Stepney1928 stand-in1933 substituter1956 1928 E. Sutton tr. A. Londres Road to Buenos Ayres ii. 18 I told her I had a woman already in Buenos Ayres, that she could only be my little sweetheart, as we say, or my ‘stepney’, if you like that better. 1929 E. Linklater Poet's Pub xxvi. 282 Redemption being carried as a kind of stepney on the best of all possible worlds. 1979 P. Nihalani et al. Indian & Brit. Eng. i. 167 Dr X may not be able to give his talk—we'd better arrange for a stepney. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1907
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