death trainn.

Brit.

/ˈdɛθ treɪn/, U.S.

/ˈdɛθ ˌtreɪn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: death n., train n.²

Etymology: < death n. + train n.²

1. literary. (a) A funeral procession; (b) a procession taking a condemned person to a place of execution. Now rare.The exact meaning in quot. 1775 is uncertain.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral > funeral procession

convoy1523

funeral1560

death train1775

burial-procession1871

1775 ‘Claudero’ Ars Catchpolaria 25 No crown or cushion or death train But all is simple neat and plain.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xxviii. 210 Meanwhile the Bruce, with steady eye, Sees the dark death-train moving by.

1820 C. E. Walker Wallace v. ii. 66 This way, in dark procession wending on, The horrid death train comes.

1866 J. G. Whittier National Lyrics 98 Wind slow from the Swan's Marsh, O dreary death-train.

1894 A. S. Way tr. Euripides Alcestis in tr. Euripides Tragedies I. 6 Not forth of the doors is the death-train gone.

1916 E. T. Seton Wild Animal Ways i. 13 The men behind followed like hangmen in the death train of a nobleman condemned.

a. A railway train carrying a corpse to or from a funeral. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1899 Catholic World Mar. 749 The funeral two days later, when the black engine crept with almost hearse-like slowness round the lamenting coast and the people knelt praying by the track as the solemn death-train passed.

1929 L. Lewis Myths after Lincoln i. xii. 134 Even the extravagance of Baltimore's demonstration, into which the death-train came rolling at ten Friday morning, told nothing of the hysteria that awaited across the country.

1968 N.Y. Amsterdam News 15 June 54/1 Robert Kennedy's friends saw him last down at the edge of the railroad tracks. His death train was 21 cars long.

b. A railway train carrying people to their deaths, or on which many people die because of harsh conditions; spec. a train used to transport people to a Nazi concentration camp.

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1919 Red Cross Mag. Apr. 12/1 Mr. Bukely's prophesy that the death train would still be a death train was fulfilled.

1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. vi. 58 At that time the death trains had started rattling through Eastern Europe.

1982 Irish Times 4 Jan. 10/7 In the last days of December the death trains ceased to roll: between that date and the final capitulation of Budapest to the Red Army in mid-January they were to have carried a further 75,000 to concentration camps.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 Sept. a12/2 A plane ticket back to the European Union country of origin is not the same thing as death trains and the gas chambers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	death train
释义	death trainn. Brit. /ˈdɛθ treɪn/, U.S. /ˈdɛθ ˌtreɪn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: death n., train n.² Etymology: < death n. + train n.² 1. literary. (a) A funeral procession; (b) a procession taking a condemned person to a place of execution. Now rare.The exact meaning in quot. 1775 is uncertain. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral > funeral procession convoy1523 funeral1560 death train1775 burial-procession1871 1775 ‘Claudero’ Ars Catchpolaria 25 No crown or cushion or death train But all is simple neat and plain. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xxviii. 210 Meanwhile the Bruce, with steady eye, Sees the dark death-train moving by. 1820 C. E. Walker Wallace v. ii. 66 This way, in dark procession wending on, The horrid death train comes. 1866 J. G. Whittier National Lyrics 98 Wind slow from the Swan's Marsh, O dreary death-train. 1894 A. S. Way tr. Euripides Alcestis in tr. Euripides Tragedies I. 6 Not forth of the doors is the death-train gone. 1916 E. T. Seton Wild Animal Ways i. 13 The men behind followed like hangmen in the death train of a nobleman condemned. 2. a. A railway train carrying a corpse to or from a funeral. Now rare. ΚΠ 1899 Catholic World Mar. 749 The funeral two days later, when the black engine crept with almost hearse-like slowness round the lamenting coast and the people knelt praying by the track as the solemn death-train passed. 1929 L. Lewis Myths after Lincoln i. xii. 134 Even the extravagance of Baltimore's demonstration, into which the death-train came rolling at ten Friday morning, told nothing of the hysteria that awaited across the country. 1968 N.Y. Amsterdam News 15 June 54/1 Robert Kennedy's friends saw him last down at the edge of the railroad tracks. His death train was 21 cars long. b. A railway train carrying people to their deaths, or on which many people die because of harsh conditions; spec. a train used to transport people to a Nazi concentration camp. ΚΠ 1919 Red Cross Mag. Apr. 12/1 Mr. Bukely's prophesy that the death train would still be a death train was fulfilled. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. vi. 58 At that time the death trains had started rattling through Eastern Europe. 1982 Irish Times 4 Jan. 10/7 In the last days of December the death trains ceased to roll: between that date and the final capitulation of Budapest to the Red Army in mid-January they were to have carried a further 75,000 to concentration camps. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 Sept. a12/2 A plane ticket back to the European Union country of origin is not the same thing as death trains and the gas chambers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1775
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