| 单词 | fare stage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfare stage a. A place in which rest is taken on a journey; a roadside inn for the accommodation of travellers riding post or by stagecoach; esp. a regular stopping place on a stagecoach route where horses are changed and travellers taken up and set down. More recently, as fare stage, one of the principal stops on an omnibus or tram route, which marks the start of a new step in the fare structure: see fare n.1 Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [noun] > a relay or change of horses > place where horses changed postage1603 stage1603 mutation1610 relay1706 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc. > resting-place on journey baiting1477 baiting-placec1530 stage1603 post-stage1642 station1722 post station1749 station house1815 stopping-place1827 stage-stand1856 refreshment stop1880 pull-up1899 1603 in Rep. Secret Comm. Post-Office (1844) App. 38 That the postemasters of every stage be aided..with fresh and able horses. 1603 in Rep. Secret Comm. Post-Office (1844) App. 39 Nor [to] ride them [sc. horses] further then the next immediate stage without changing, without the knowledge and consent of the Post of the stage. 1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine iv. ii. sig. I1v He, that at euerie stage keeps liuerie Mistresses. 1635 in Rep. Secret Comm. Post-Office (1844) App. 56 The sd Portmantle is to goe from Stage to Stage, night and day, till it shall come to Edenburgh. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 172 We..came to rest..at the place which we had made our first Stage, when we came from Suez. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xv. 12 The Road we now must alter, and engage Th' unwilling Horse to pass his usual Stage. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. vi. 102 About three pounds of cold roast mutton which he had discussed at his mid-day stage. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 273 He discovered that there was no other stage available without over-riding Osmund. < as lemmas |
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