| 释义 |
wagoning, waggoning, vbl. n.|ˈwægənɪŋ|
[f. wagon v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of travelling or conveying by wagon.
1782in L. P. Summers Ann. Southwest Virginia (1929) 770 He ought to be paid..for one day waggoning. 1837Southern Lit. Messenger III. 87 There never was such a time for wagoning before. 1856Olmsted Slave States v. 339 More than thirty miles of wagoning is required to bring the spirits of turpentine to a rail-road. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. xiv. (1873) VIII. 59 The greatest activity and wagoning now visible there. 1877A. Douai Better Times (1884) 15 Already in the earliest, darkest ages were invented the arts of..navigating and wagoning.
b. colloq. Coach-driving.
1875Reynardson Down the Road 49 Tom Hennesy, who was always fond of giving me a lesson in ‘waggoning’, and by whose side I was sitting on the box. 1896Conan Doyle Rodney Stone viii, It's a fine day for a little bit of waggoning. |