单词 | gondola |
释义 | gondolan. 1. a. A light flat-bottomed boat or skiff in use on the Venetian canals, having a cabin amidships and rising to a sharp point at either end; it is usually propelled by one man at the stern with a single oar. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > canal boat > gondola gondola1549 gondolet1602 zendaletto1794 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 83v [He kept] one man, or two at the most, to row his Gondola. a1577 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. (1587) 52 And from their battered barks commanded to be cast Some Gondalaes wherein upon our pleasant streams they past. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R2 A litle Gondelay. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. v. sig. G3 Rowing vpon the water in a gondole, With the most cunning Curtizan, of Venice. View more context for this quotation 1611 W. Venner Beame of Brightnesse sig. B2v No ratling Cart or Waggon runnes in me, but gentle Gundels swimming ore the streame. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 36. 1670 London Gaz. No. 437/2 He was..attended by great numbers of his friends in their Pleasure-boats and Gondola's. 1697 tr. Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 169 There's a Canal..and another square Place in which the King has little Gundoloes painted and gilt. 1739 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 6 Nov. (1966) II. 159 The greatest equipage is a gondola, that holds eight persons. 1764 Oxford Sausage 157 O'er Seas of bliss Peace guide her Gondelay. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xix. 10 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. i. 100 The far lights of skimming gondolas. 1831 T. Moore Summer Fête 404 Light gondolas, of Venetian breed. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. ix. 281 My love of gliding about in gondolas. b. transferred. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1827 Mayfair i. 31 There beauty half her glory veils In cabs, those gondolas on wheels. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xxvii He hailed a cruising Hansom,..‘'Tis the gondola of London’, said Lothair as he sprang in. a. A ship's boat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > ship's boat > types of float-boat1322 cocka1400 cockboat1413 longboat1421 cogc1430 cog boat1440 espyne1487 jolywat1495 barge1530 fly-boat1598 gondola1626 cocket-boat1668 yawl1670 whale-boat1682 pinnace1685 launch1697 jolly-boat1728 cutter1745 gig1790 pram1807 jolly1829 whaler1893 1626 P. Nichols Sir F. Drake Revived (1628) 9 A ship of Spaine..(espying our foure Pinnaces),..sent away her Gundeloe towards the Towne, to giue warning. b. Some kind of small war-vessel. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > types of small war vessel armadilla1695 gondola1799 Symondite1927 1799 Naval Chron. 1 273 The Brest fleet, consisting of thirty-two sail, five frigates, and five gondolas, had put to sea. 3. U.S. A large flat-bottomed river boat of light build; a lighter; used also as a gunboat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > lighter lighter1372 lightener1526 cabarra1670 gondola1767 lighterman1770 1767 Boston Gaz. 21 Sept. (advt.) Wanted Immediately, A Sett of good Hands, to load and tend on a Gundalo. 1774 J. Wentworth in N.E. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1869) XXIII. 276 The cannon were sent in Gondolas up the River into the country. 1777 E. Badlam in N.E. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1848) II. 49 Colonel Brown has taken Ticonderoga..a number of armed gundeloes, one armed sloop [etc.]. 1805 W. Hunter in Naval Chron. 13 39 Two Gundolas came down and fired at us. 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. lxiv. 31 Vessels are floated down to the sea, by means of flat-boats or lighters, here [i.e. in the northern U.S.] called gondolas. 1866 J. G. Whittier Snow-bound 254 When favoring breezes deigned to blow The square sail of the gundelow. 1886 B. P. Poore Perley's Reminisc. I. iii. 51 The Potomac River..was navigable..in long, flat-bottomed boats, sharp at both ends, called ‘gondolas’. 4. a. = gondola-car n. U.S. ΚΠ 1871 M. Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 480 Gondola... The use of the word for a peculiarly shaped railroad-car is not unknown in England. 1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 7/3 The Central News New York correspondent says..When the driver pulled up a heavy ‘gondola’, or low goods wagon, broke loose from the adjacent siding. 1907 J. London in Cosmopolitan July 263/1 A flat car..is known among the fraternity as a ‘gondola’, with the second syllable emphasized and pronounced long. 1914 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Apr. 10/1 At the end of the stretch of wheels was the hangout, barricaded on one side by a corrugated iron windshield..and on the other by a derelict gondola freight car. 1922 H. Titus Timber iii. 37 Two Indians were loading pulp wood into a gondola on the siding. 1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xvii. 176 They left..on a freight-train..travelling in a low roofless car known as a ‘gondola’: the gondola was about two-thirds full of gravel. b. An elongated car attached to the under side of a dirigible balloon or airship. [German, Dutch gondel.] Also transferred, applied to a structure that resembles such a car in its purpose and mode of attachment. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > basket or car basket1783 car1783 gallery1784 nacelle1853 boat car1877 gondola1896 1881 W. D. Hay 300 Years Hence xi. 301 You step into an aërial gondola,..and are at once borne upwards.] 1896 Strand Mag. July 78/2 The finished balloon..is 97 ft. in all from the cap to the bottom of the basket or gondola. 1908 World's Work XVI. 10804/2 He suspended his gondolas close underneath the hulk. 1914 Evening News 15 Oct. 1/6 The distance between the gondola carrying the engines and the body of the airship has been very much reduced. 1930 G. G. Jackson World's Aeroplanes 17 Each ship was given four propellers..and these were driven by exceptionally powerful motors, divided between two cars, or gondolas, as they came to be called... The gondolas resembled the Italian craft, from which they took their name, in general design, but they were, of course, much larger. 1953 J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools viii. 89 When the balloon ‘Explorer II’ made its ascent to 72,395 feet..in 1935, spores of seven moulds were enclosed in small quartz tubes fastened to the outside of the gondola. 1955 M. Savill tr. A. Galland First & Last xxiv. 202 Two additional 20-mm. cannons were mounted below the wings. These ‘gondolas’ or ‘bath-tubs’, as we called them, [etc.]. 1959 Sunday Times 5 Apr. 7/8 With a float containing petrol to provide buoyancy, and a pressure-proof ‘gondola’ underneath. 1962 J. Glenn in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 70 The ‘Wheel’, as we called it, combined many of the control problems we would encounter in real space flight. It consists of a pill-shaped gondola..suspended at the end of a 50-foot arm. c. The car attached to a ski-lift. Also gondola lift. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski-lift T-bar1889 tow1937 chair-lift1940 ski-lift1940 ski tow1942 skimobile1946 platter pull1949 Poma1954 telecabine1954 gondola lift1957 1957 in Amer. Speech (1963) 38 205 Gondola, gondola lift, a number of smaller enclosed cabins seating two or four persons each. The gondolas are stored at the base station poma lift style and are clamped onto the moving cable after loading. 1958 M. West Second Victory vii. 97 The Gondelbahn, the long aerial cable that swung the shining gondolas up the slope to the summit of the Grauglockner. 1964 Harper's Bazaar Nov. 140/1 New this season: gondola lift. 1970 Times 18 Dec. 20/2 Vail offers superb skiing... A new development..adds a second gondola. d. An island counter used in self-service shops for the display of merchandise. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-fittings > counter > type of counter trade counter1856 bargain counter1888 gondola1942 serve-over1950 stocking bar1962 1942 Super Market Nov. 53 End of gondola displays may be constructed by using disc-shaped cardboard in graduated sizes. One edge of the cardboard should be cut straight and even in order to rest against the gondola. 1960 Guardian 16 May 3/5 Enough space is left round the ‘gondolas’ (the movable counters) to let shoppers take short cuts. 1962 E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organization ii. 19 Other types of counter in common use are refrigerated runs..and gondolas—a self-service central fixture. Compounds C1. General attributive. gondola-beak n. ΚΠ 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. iii. 101 Seeing the gondola-beak come actually inside the door at Danieli's. ΚΠ 1814 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 123 On one [canal] are many fine gondola boats. gondola office n. ΚΠ 1821 T. Moore Mem. (1853) III. 252 Lord John drove me to the gondole office. C2. gondola-car n. U.S. a railway car having a platform body with low sides. ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 407/2 Gondola-Car. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Aug. 14/2 The other rolling-stock comprises four double-decked open cars, twenty platform cars, twenty gondola cars [etc.]. gondola wagon n. (also gondola waggon) = gondola-car n. ΚΠ 1918 Chambers's Jrnl. July 459/2 The comparatively new ‘gondola’ wagon serves that purpose admirably. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1549 |
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