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parking, vbl. n.|ˈpɑːkɪŋ|
[f. park v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of park v. (in various senses).
1526in Dillon Calais & Pale (1892) 82 If he dunge it with parkinge of shepe or of bests, he to have ijs. viijd. for evry acre. 1607J. Milwarde Jacobs Gt. Day (1610) I iv b, The parking in of beasts, and the depopulating Townes, to shut out Christians.
2. concr. Ground laid out in the style of a park. Also, in U.S., a strip of turf, with or without trees, in the centre of a street; in some regions of the U.S., a strip of grass between the footpath and the curb. Also parking strip.
1885Johns Hopkins Hist. Studies Ser. iii. Mar. 109 Spaces were left for a market-place, court-house green and parking for the palace. 1888H. Gannett in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 382/2 In some cases, similar parking has been left in the middle of the streets. 1888Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biog. IV. 578/1 In 1871 he [F. L. Olmsted] urged..the so-called ‘parking system’ for the broad streets of Washington. 1945Amer. Speech XX. 154/1 Parking, the grassed area between curbing and sidewalk. The term is used by some Minnesotans instead of Boulevard, by others as an alternate. 1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 667 In the Minneapolis area it [sc. boulevard] designates the grass strip between the sidewalk and the curb, elsewhere called a tree lawn or a parking strip. 1964Amer. Speech XXXIX. 293 That strip of grass and weeds between the sidewalk and the curb..seems to be most commonly called tree lawn or parking strip... I use the colorless parking from the language of relatives in Iowa. 1966Inland (Inland Steel Co., Chicago) Autumn 16/2 For the grass strip between sidewalk and street there is a bewildering array of local terms:..parking in Illinois. 1969Better Homes & Gardens (U.S.) Apr. 85 They look best when used in a formal manner, such as in pairs on front parkings or equally spaced along property lines.
3. a. The placing or leaving of a vehicle or vehicles in a park (park n. 5 b), at the side of the road, or elsewhere. Also transf.
1926Rep. Commissioner Police Metropolis 1925 17 in Parl. Papers (Cmd. 2660) XV. 239 Parking of Cars.—The arrangements tentatively made by Police for parking cars on certain highways have been given statutory effect. 1929Minnesota Alumni Weekly June 619 The new space along with a lot now used for parking will be seeded. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Oct. 789/2 Let off with a caution at Marlborough-street for improper parking of his car. 1959Daily Tel. 24 Mar. 9/2 A possible ban on parking on main roads was hinted at yesterday. 1961Product Engineering 14 Aug. 34/1 Additional symbols of status are granted, such as reserved parking, distinctive badge passes.., and a difference in the treatment of financial progress through merit. 1970R.A.C. Guide & Handbk. 1970–71 63/2 Where unexpired time is shown on the meter at the time of parking this period may be used without payment. 1977‘M. Underwood’ Fatal Trip i. 7 A re-arrangement of her domestic routine including the parking of Simon on a good-natured neighbour.
b. attrib. and Comb., as parking apron, parking area, parking attendant, parking fee, parking fine, parking garage, parking offence, parking place, parking space; parking bay, a recess at the side of a road or other space allocated for parking a vehicle; parking brake, a brake provided on a motor vehicle or trailer for holding it at rest; parking deck [deck n.1 3 b], a floor of a building used as a parking place for vehicles; also, a multi-storey car park; parking disc: see disc n. 2 f; parking lamp, light, a small (often detachable) light on a motor vehicle for indicating its position when parked at night; = side-light; parking lot orig. U.S., a plot of ground used for the parking of vehicles; parking meter orig. U.S., a coin-operated meter which registers the time a vehicle has been parked; parking orbit, an orbit around the earth or some other planet from which a space vehicle can be launched farther into space; parking strip (see quots.); parking tag, ticket orig. U.S., a ticket attached by an official to a vehicle which has violated parking regulations; parking warden = traffic warden.
1974Hawkey & Bingham Wild Card i. 20 The mile-long journey to the parking apron.
1961R. A. Futterman Future of our Cities iii. 62 Less ambitious freeway plans may be more successful—especially when the roadways and interchanges are raised, allowing for cross access at many points and providing parking areas below the ramp. 1966‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive vii. 63 A car had come into the parking area. 1977E. Leonard Unknown Man No. 89 xxi. 212 He..crossed the parking area to the front entrance.
1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iii. 48 He was on speaking terms with everybody, the parking attendant, the hat-check girl. 1962J. Brierley Parking of Motor Vehicles 298 Parking attendant, a person authorized by or on behalf of a council or parking authority to supervise a parking place. 1973A. Mann Tiara ix. 87 He handed the Maserati over to a parking attendant of the Automobile Club.
1962J. Brierley Parking of Motor Vehicles v. 49 A parking bay 18 feet long will be long enough for the majority of modern cars. 1972Times 26 Jan. 6/1 The notice was given to comply with the provisions for rent revision contained in an underlease for a flat on the seventh and eighth floors of Ambassador House and a parking bay. 1976T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die viii. 167 The van ahead berthed in a parking bay.
1944L. D. Kitchin Road Transport Law 41/4 It is an offence to leave a vehicle without stopping the engine..and applying the parking brake. 1959E. K. Wenlock Kitchin's Road Transport Law (ed. 12) 20/1 On all trailers exceeding 2 cwt unladen the braking system must also be capable of acting as a parking brake to prevent at least two wheels from revolving. 1967Gloss. Caravan Terms (B.S.I.) 2 Parking brakes, brakes for holding the caravan when at rest, usually the overrun brakes or power brakes provided with additional means of manual application. 1974New Yorker 25 Feb. 44/3 He went into a double-parking maneuver that culminated as, with a flourish, he pulled at the parking-brake handle.
1970Parking deck [see deck n.1 3 b]. 1972Graphic (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) 30 Nov. 12/3 The County Commission Tuesday formally adopted a multi-level parking deck to be constructed adjacent to the County Jail. 1972Birmingham (Alabama) News 17 Dec. 4A/1 With two parking deck sites assured..the property surrounding the station could be purchased and the proposed seven-story structure built in an L-shape. 1974Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 17 Feb. 3D/2 The authority was to build a parking deck for the downtown area.
1932Autocar 9 Sept. 469, I have only once, in two years, been asked to pay a parking fee. 1963P. Hall London 2000 v. 111 One exception, which parking fees do not meet, is the extra congestion in the very short morning and evening rush periods. 1971‘S. Smith’ Grave Affair ix. 134 Horsham Police were surprised to receive payment of the {pstlg}2 parking fine on the Cortina... It came in a plain manilla envelope,..and inside were two pound notes and the parking ticket. 1972P. D. James Unsuitable Job iv. 117 She daren't risk a parking fine nor the impounding of the car. 1977D. Williams Treasure by Degrees xviii. 166 Miss Stopps was not the type of citizen who would ignore a parking fine demand.
1948Sun (Baltimore) 18 Feb. 10/2 There will undoubtedly be debates as to whether the commission should build and operate parking garages as public enterprises. 1974M. G. Eberhart Danger Money (1975) xi. 118 Greg drove..to a parking garage where he left the car and hailed a taxi. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 1 July 3-B/2 Bids to construct Billings first municipally owned parking garage have all been rejected as being at least $300,000 too high.
1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 1134/1 Motor lamps..parking lamp... Burns very small amount of current. 1957E. K. Wenlock Kitchin's Road Transport Law (ed. 11) 60/1 Parking lamps which can be used only on certain vehicles..must show a 1in diameter white light to the front and a 1in diameter red light to the rear. 1972Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 19/6 Motorists will be able to discard their clip-on auxiliary parking lamps after Sunday next, when standardised regulations for parking without lights come into effect throughout the country.
1938H. A. Tripp Road Traffic & its Control iii. ix. 160 ‘Parking lights’ of extremely low power (in order to economise current) are fitted to some cars. 1943R. Chandler Lady in Lake (1944) xxiv. 136 A motor purled gently in the car with the parking lights on it. 1973‘B. Mather’ Snowline xiv. 171 It was a car running on its parking lights.
1924H. Croy R.F.D. No. 3 172 Some of the people still lingered under the arc light, with its summer collection of bugs still in it, waiting for the two to come from the parking lot. 1930M. McClintock Rep. Parking & Garage Probl. Washington 19 Parking lot rates average substantially lower than those for garages. 1958New Statesman 1 Nov. 590/3 Partial over⁓building of these parking lots would do little to disguise the inherent visual bleakness of conception. 1972Times 18 Mar. 8/7 People who in Leeds, for instance, will have stepped across the parking lot from rehearsals in the Playhouse to others in the studio. 1976H. Nielsen Brink of Murder ix. 81 Simon found the restaurant..and drove into the parking lot.
[1935Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 33/3 (heading) Curb-parking meter times autoist's stay.] 1936Amer. City Jan. 95/3 In July..there came to the attention of the officials in Dallas a device known as the parking meter. 1938Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 649/2 Many cities have installed parking meters, usually requiring the deposit of five cents per hour for permission to park at the kerb. 1949Chicago Daily News 11 Aug. 3/4 A runaway horse and wagon collided with a parking meter. 1956Planning XXII. 210 There has been much discussion of the merits of coin-in-slot parking meters as a means of enforcing time limits. 1958Observer 13 July 7/8 Six hundred parking meters, the first in Britain, came into operation in Mayfair on Thursday morning. 1966New Scientist 24 Nov. 447/1 The psychological effect of the parking meter is always diluted by the element of gambling involved. 1974Guardian 24 Jan. 28/4 Increases in parking meter charges.
1959M. Summerton Small Wilderness i. 21 Once..he'd let me off a parking offence. 1960G. Mikes How to be Inimitable 60 The most heinous offence known to the Police is officially called ‘obstructing the Queen's Highway’. The Queen is brought into it to underline the close connection between a parking offence and high treason. 1960Aeroplane XCIX. 496/1 Such a satellite could be launched for immediate interception, or placed in a ‘parking’ orbit, always ready to intercept, interrogate or inspect in detail another object orbiting in space. 1961Flight LXXIX. 426/1 Injection into ‘parking orbit’, which places the vehicle at the proper location in space for departure into the desired lunar trajectory. 1970New Scientist 2 July 21 The spacecraft goes on into a parking orbit and the two boosters coast down to land.
1925Act 15 & 16 Geo. V c. 71 §68 (9) In this section the expression ‘parking place’ means a place where vehicles, or vehicles of any particular class or description, may wait. 1941Parking-place [see bindi-eye]. 1975N. Luard Robespierre Serial ii. 6 It's the residents coming back from work; they've got permits for the parking-places.
1924Collier's 5 Jan. 17/2 Secretary Mellon has asked permission to move the Washington Monument so as to get more parking space. 1926Parking space [see car-park s.v. car n.1 6]. 1941G. Marx Let. 25 July (1967) 29 Parking space is at a premium around this ramshackle building. 1971A. Price Alamut Ambush iii. 35 His mind on a parking space thirty yards ahead.
1961New Left Rev. July–Aug. 57/2 In front of the garages and kitchens are cobbled parking strips which absorb oil stains and from which moving traffic is kept by low bollards. 1966Inland (Inland Steel Co., Chicago) Autumn 16/2 For the grass strip between sidewalk and street there is a bewildering array of local terms:..parking strip..in Illinois.
1956‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) iii. 28 Anybody who ever got a parking tag is automatically a cop hater. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 5/8 More than $6-million of this amount came from the magistrates' courts. About $1,850,000 came from parking tags. 1977Time 22 Aug. 34 (caption) The telltale parking tag and Deputy Craig Glassman with hate letters from his neighbor.
1947Denver Post 2 Mar. A1/2 Parking tickets no longer could be fixed. 1951T. Sterling House without Door vii. 80 These old bastards haven't even read a parking ticket for the last twenty years. 1959W. R. Bird These are Maritimes x. 300 He took an old parking ticket out of his pocket. 1971[see parking fine above]. 1973H. Gilbert Hotels with Empty Rooms xvi. 137 The car stood where they had left it. A parking ticket had been inserted under the right-hand windscreen-wiper.
1966P. Moloney Plea for Mersey 51 This sentinel your chariot will keep Till Parking Wardens, roused up from their sleep, Espy the yellow in the monster's face, And mark the car, with symbol of disgrace. 1974L. Deighton Spy Story xiii. 130, I watched two parking wardens clobber a delivery van. |