单词 | bumping post |
释义 | > as lemmasbumping post bumping post n. †(a) a post, esp. one serving as a boundary marker, against which people are ‘bumped’ as a punishment; cf. sense 2a, bump v.1 4 (obsolete); (b) North American a buffer, spec. one fixed to the end of a railway track.Most of the clubs discussed in the satirical work cited at quot. 1709 are fictional, so the origin, purpose, and existence of the ‘bumping post’ mentioned in this quot. are uncertain; all references to it in later works appear to derive ultimately from this source. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > buffer buffer1835 stop-block1853 fender-stop1856 buffer-stop1878 stop-buffer1881 buffer-block1889 buffer-bank1900 bumping post1952 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs vii. 65 By this..Society, the Bumping-Post at Billingsgate was first erected, to harden the Buttocks of their members once a year. 1834 Ipswich Jrnl. 11 Jan. When quite a boy he went the boundary of Ash, and was bumped upon the bumping post that he might recollect it. 1860 in Gen. Rep. Commissioner Public Wks. (Legislative Assembly Canada) (1861) 62 The bumping posts at the upper entrance of all the locks are very much decayed. 1911 C. E. Parsons All Saints' Church Horseheath vi. 93 Until quite recently a ‘bumping’ post remained at the south-eastern extremity of Horseheath parish. 1952 Jet 7 Aug. 9 The train..hit a ‘bumping post’ while backing into a station. 2015 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 29 Apr. 15 Board members blamed the design of the center track as inadequate to prevent a train striking the bumping post. < as lemmas |
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