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Bradshaw|ˈbrædʃɔː|
Colloquial designation of ‘Bradshaw's Railway Guide’, a time-table of all railway trains running in Great Britain, the earliest form of which was first issued at Manchester in 1839 by George Bradshaw (1801–53), printer and engraver. (Ceased publication in 1961.) Also transf. and fig.
1847F. A. Kemble Let. in Records of Later Life (1882) III. 289 You ask me what book I read now to put me to sleep—why, Murray's ‘Handbook for France’..and the foreign ‘Bradshaw’. 1851Fraser's Mag. Jan. 126/1 It is always dangerous to travel upon the faith of an old Bradshaw. 1914‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xi. 77 The young Doctor looked up from the year-old ‘Bradshaw’ with which he was wont to enliven moments of depression by arranging mythical week-ends at friends' houses in various parts of England. 1923J. M. Murry Pencillings 201 Reading reviews is a minor and fascinating science like the study of the continental Bradshaw. 1954J. Masters Bhowani Junction xxx. 257 The girl's a walking Bradshaw. 1959Times 20 May 11/7 It would be the easiest thing in the world for a new D.N.B. to become the Tom Tiddler's ground of historical specialists and so to cease to count as more than a ‘Bradshaw’ for students. 1961Economist 18 Mar. 1047/1 Poor Bradshaw is, no doubt, irreplaceable. His approaching demise, in May, is one that countless thousands precipitately and inconsolably mourn.
Hence ˈBradshaw v., (a) trans. to make a ‘Bradshaw’ for; (b) intr. (R.A.F. slang) to follow a railway in flying. Hence ˈBradshawing vbl. n.
1887H. W. Daly Digging & Squatting S. Australia 253 Mr. Westgarth says: ‘If the through route of Central Australia is some day to be Bradshawed.’ 1946E. C. Cheesman Brief Glory ii. 21, I knew the only thing to do was to ‘Bradshaw’: in other words to follow the railways. 1946A. Phelps I couldn't care Less iii. 25 Bradshawing can sometimes lead into trouble... I dislike following a railway except in extreme emergency when forced to fly low. |