单词 | tom pung |
释义 | † Tom Pungn. 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 ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of people sled1590 sledge1617 traineau1653 sleigh1703 pulka1746 booby-hutch1766 Tom Pung1799 cutter1803 pung1804 kibitka1806 booby-hack1820 pulk1831 booby1841 sleigh-cutter1846 clipper-sled1883 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). < n.1799 |
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