单词 | trainage |
释义 | trainagen. 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). < n.1611 |
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