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单词 trainage
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trainagen.

Brit. /ˈtreɪnɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈtreɪnɪdʒ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: train v.1, -age suffix.
Etymology: < train v.1 + -age suffix, originally after French traînage action of drawing something along (1611 in Cotgrave: see quot. 1611; 1531 in Middle French as traisnage; already 1400 as tregnaiges (plural noun) in sense ‘feudal tax payable on goods being brought into a town’).
Now rare.
(a) The action of drawing something along; the fact of being drawn along, esp. by traineau or sledge; haulage or conveyance by traineau or train; (b) a road or way for this (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > [noun]
trainage1611
overhaul1625
tow1793
trackage1820
traction1822
haulage1826
the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling
drawingc1300
draughta1398
pullinga1425
draggingc1440
halingc1440
lugging?a1500
attraction1578
toilingc1600
trainage1611
hale1615
traction1615
hauling1626
trail1674
tracting1780
haulage1826
pull1833
drawal1936
society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > conveyance by rail or train
trainage1890
railage1891
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trainage, trainage.
a1710 P.-E. Radisson Voy. (1885) 98 The trainage is where the watter is not so trepid. We draw the boats loaden after us, and when there is not water enough, every one his bundle by land.
1817 Mann. & Cust. in Ann. Reg. 479/1 Fortunately (being the necessary conditions for good trainage) it [sc. snow] had fallen on a ground already hardened by the frost.
1826 A. Disbrowe Let. 30 Aug.–11 Sept. in C. A. A. Disbrowe Orig. Lett. from Russia (1878) 186 Princess Zeneide V. talks of it as nothing extraordinary of having a tent pitched on the Steps or Desert, a physician to attend her, that the climate is better than at St. Petersburg, and that in the winter the trainage will avoid the great fatigue of bad roads, etc.
1839 R. L. Venables Domest. Scenes in Russia xiii. 180 The rise of the Nile is not more interesting or important to the Egyptian than is the establishment of the trainage or snow-roads to the Russian.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 42 Men in charge of droves..pursued the old and rugged road, not caring to use the swifter, costlier trainage.
1913 Trans. Inst. Mining & Metall. 22 22 The costs of transport are as follows, i.e.:..Trainage to smelting works..[£]0 18 10 [per ton].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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