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rolley|ˈrɒlɪ|
Also rolly.
[Of obscure origin: perh. connected with roll v.2, but cf. rulley.]
1. Mining. A kind of truck without sides, formerly much in use for carrying corves along underground horse-roads or upon rails to the shaft.
1825[see b]. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 982 Each corve..is lifted from the tram.., and placed on a carriage called a rolley, which generally holds two corves. 1851Greenwell Coal-Trade terms, Northumb. & Durham 43 The rolley was contrived as an improvement upon the tram, upon which a single corf was placed.
b. attrib. and Comb., as rolley-driver, rolley-horse, rolley-way, rolley-way-man, rolley-wheel, etc.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 646 The plate railways employed in coal-mines, and there called tram and rolley-ways. Ibid. 649 A view of a rolley or tram-wheel. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 982 The rolley driver, with his horse, takes them to the bottom of the engine-shaft. Ibid., The rolley horses have a peculiar kind of shafts. 1851Greenwell Coal-trade terms, Northumb. & Durham, Rolleyway-man, a man whose business is to attend to the rolleyway, and keep it in order.
2. A lorry; = rulley. Also attrib.
1886N. Eastern Daily Gaz. 11 Aug. 1/6 Spring Rolleys for removing Furniture. Ibid. 1/4 Waterproof Cart and Rolley Covers. Ibid. 1/3 Wanted,..steady Young Man as Rolleyman. 1894Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., ‘A railway rolley,’ a large, flat, four-wheeled waggon, used for the street delivery and carriage of merchandize. |