| 单词 | coach wagon |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoach wagon coach wagon n. now historical a wagon drawn by a horse or other draft animal, used as or resembling a coach; (in later use also) a railway wagon of this kind. [In quot. 1619 translating ancient Greek (Attic)ἅμαξα wagon (see amaxophobia n.).] ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > covered > coach coach1556 coach-carriage1688 quitcha1693 leathern convenience1699 coach-wagona1720 1619 H. Ainsworth Annot. Fourth Bk. Moses, called Numbers sig. I2v/2 Covered wagons] or, coach wagons [Gk. ἁμάξας], according to the Greek version. a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1722) iv. 137 They were carried in a Coach-wagon to the Water-side. 1843 Liberator (Boston) 26 May 81/4 A coach-wagon, with four horses, drew up to the Anti-Slavery Office. 1926 G. S. Bryan Edison, Man & his Work xv. 245 No..‘Tom Thumb’ of early steam-railway days, drawing its little coach-wagons, could have made a more fantastic picture than did Edison's first electric train. 2014 W. F. Woods Medieval Filmscape 9 The coach wagon bearing the Advocate Courtois to Abbeville also contains..all of their baggage, as well as some chickens. < as lemmas |
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