hansom cabn.

/ˈhansəm/

Forms: Also short hansom.

Etymology: < Hansom, surname of an architect who in 1834 patented a vehicle with some of the essential features of this cab.

a. A low-hung two-wheeled cabriolet holding two persons inside, the driver being mounted on a dickey or elevated seat behind, and the reins going over the roof.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hackney carriage > specific types of hackney carriage

noddy?1764

hack1769

Patent Safety1835

Patent Safety Cab1836

hansom cab1847

cab car1853

shoful1853

growler1865

midge1865

1852 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 343 A flying hansom cab, which cut along almost at railway speed.

1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life ii. 20 I have lived to see an archbishop in a hansom cab!

1884 J. H. McCarthy Eng. under Gladstone xiii. 250 Joseph Aloysius Hansom, who invented the Hansom cab, died this year [1882].

β. 1847 Punch 13 193 The Hansoms were rattling.1870 B. Disraeli Lothair I. xxvii. 226 He hailed a cruising Hansom..‘'Tis the gondola of London’, said Lothair as he sprang in.1893 19th Cent. Mar. 470 The hansom as we know it bears little resemblance to the cumbrous vehicle designed by the inventor.

b. attributive as hansom cab-driver, hansom-cabman. (β) hansom-driver; hansom-borne adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [noun] > driving or hiring of cabs > driver of hired cab > of hansom cab

hansom cab-driver1849

hansom-cabman1849

hansomeer1893

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxvi. 346 The cabman, although a Hansom cabman, said thank you for the gratuity which was put into his hand.

a1860 A. Smith London Med. Student (1861) 17 Dashing up to the door as Hansom cab-drivers are wont to do.

Derivatives

ˈhansom v. (also hansom it) (cf. cab v.², coach v.), to travel or go in a hansom.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [verb (intransitive)] > travel by cab or taxi

cab1831

hack1877

hansom1890

taxi1909

1890 S. Baring-Gould Arminell xli To think that I..a raging Democrat, should be hansoming it to and fro between my Ladies and Honourables.

1894 R. Broughton Beginner xi One slippery January morning as she hansoms it along.

hansoˈmeer n. the driver of a hansom.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [noun] > driving or hiring of cabs > driver of hired cab > of hansom cab

hansom cab-driver1849

hansom-cabman1849

hansomeer1893

1893 F. F. Moore Gray Eye or So III. 50 Driving as fast as the hansomeer thought consistent with public safety.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hansom cab
释义	hansom cabn. /ˈhansəm/ Forms: Also short hansom. Etymology: < Hansom, surname of an architect who in 1834 patented a vehicle with some of the essential features of this cab. a. A low-hung two-wheeled cabriolet holding two persons inside, the driver being mounted on a dickey or elevated seat behind, and the reins going over the roof. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hackney carriage > specific types of hackney carriage noddy?1764 hack1769 Patent Safety1835 Patent Safety Cab1836 hansom cab1847 cab car1853 shoful1853 growler1865 midge1865 1852 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 343 A flying hansom cab, which cut along almost at railway speed. 1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life ii. 20 I have lived to see an archbishop in a hansom cab! 1884 J. H. McCarthy Eng. under Gladstone xiii. 250 Joseph Aloysius Hansom, who invented the Hansom cab, died this year [1882]. β. 1847 Punch 13 193 The Hansoms were rattling.1870 B. Disraeli Lothair I. xxvii. 226 He hailed a cruising Hansom..‘'Tis the gondola of London’, said Lothair as he sprang in.1893 19th Cent. Mar. 470 The hansom as we know it bears little resemblance to the cumbrous vehicle designed by the inventor. b. attributive as hansom cab-driver, hansom-cabman. (β) hansom-driver; hansom-borne adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [noun] > driving or hiring of cabs > driver of hired cab > of hansom cab hansom cab-driver1849 hansom-cabman1849 hansomeer1893 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxvi. 346 The cabman, although a Hansom cabman, said thank you for the gratuity which was put into his hand. a1860 A. Smith London Med. Student (1861) 17 Dashing up to the door as Hansom cab-drivers are wont to do. Derivatives ˈhansom v. (also hansom it) (cf. cab v.², coach v.), to travel or go in a hansom. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [verb (intransitive)] > travel by cab or taxi cab1831 hack1877 hansom1890 taxi1909 1890 S. Baring-Gould Arminell xli To think that I..a raging Democrat, should be hansoming it to and fro between my Ladies and Honourables. 1894 R. Broughton Beginner xi One slippery January morning as she hansoms it along. hansoˈmeer n. the driver of a hansom.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [noun] > driving or hiring of cabs > driver of hired cab > of hansom cab hansom cab-driver1849 hansom-cabman1849 hansomeer1893 1893 F. F. Moore Gray Eye or So III. 50 Driving as fast as the hansomeer thought consistent with public safety. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847
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