单词 | tansad |
释义 | tansadn. 1. A make of pillion seat for a motorcycle. Now historical. ΚΠ 1916 Trade Marks Jrnl. 24 May 513 Tansad... Pillory [sic] Seat Supports for Motor Cycles, and all Cycle, Motor Cycle and Motor Car Accessories... Frederick Hagger Headley..Birmingham; Manufacturer. 1921 Times 23 June 3/1 (advt.) Motor cycles. Zenith, 1920, 8 h.p. countershaft combination, coach-built side car, lamps, horn, speedometer, Tansad. 1970 Motor Sport May 445/2 Solo motorcycles required ‘flapper-brackets’ or Tansads on which the girls of the 'twenties perched. 2. A make of child's pushchair or pram. Hence more widely: any pushchair or pram. Now chiefly English regional (northern), Scottish, and Irish English. ΚΠ 1922 Typewriter Topics Sept. 53 (advt.) Tan-Sad Ltd. of Birmingham, England. Manufacturers of the inventions of F. H. Headley—Tan-Sad pillion seats, Tan-Sad baby prams, and Tan-Sad efficiency chairs. 1945 Scotsman 8 June 6/3 (advt.) Perambulator, grey Tansad, folding; offers over £3. 1955 Irish Times 2 Feb. 1/5 When I got back to the house I found that the Tansad was against the electric fire, and the hood and the back were blazing. 1971 T. Hughes Eighty Years on Call xxi. 106 All ready to go? No. Wait a minute, we haven't got the tansad. 2013 @MrToffB 1 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Been away so long barely understand Hull folk! Me mam pushed us down rerd in me tansad. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1916 |
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