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单词 tom pung
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Tom Pungn.

Origin: A borrowing from Algonquian.
Etymology: < the Southern New England Algonquian cognate of Western Abenaki odôbôgan toboggan, Eastern Abenaki wətάpαkan toboggan, sled, sleigh, Ojibwa odaabaan sled, sleigh, carriage, any vehicle on which something is drawn (now also automobile, wagon) ( < Proto-Algonquian *weta:pya:kana < *weta:pye:- to drag with a cord + -kana instrument for), perhaps with folk-etymological reinterpretation of the initial syllables as the male forename Tom (see Tom n.1).Compare also the further Algonquian cognate Micmac tapaĝan sled, sleigh, vehicle, which gives rise to toboggan n.
North American regional (chiefly New England and Maritime Provinces). Obsolete (historical in later use).
A sleigh or sledge with a box-like body, typically drawn by one horse; = pung n.2
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of people
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1799 Farmer's Museum 3 June That fam'd town [sc. Roxbury, Mass.]..sends to Boston Mart The gliding tom pung and the rattling cart.
1825 J. F. Cooper Lionel Lincoln II. iii. 34 Polwarth drove into the little court-yard..with all those knowing flourishes he could command, and which in the year 1775 were thought to indicate the greatest familiarity with the properties of a tom-pung.
1887 Photogr. Times 4 Feb. 64/1 Such a variety of impromptu sleighs, sleds, and what people used to call Tom-Pungs.
1913 H. Crocker Hist. Baptists Vermont xix. 340 A ‘Tom Pung’ as he called it, was hewed out and put together with pins and rods.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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