| 单词 | jerkwater line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjerkwater line 1. Designating a stagecoach or train serving small or insignificant towns; designating a stagecoach route or train line connecting such towns. Frequently in jerkwater line, jerkwater train. Cf. jerk adj.2 1b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > type of train carriaged1776 steam-hauled1835 steam-operated1835 jerkwater1852 articulated1884 vestibuled1890 multiple-unit1902 air-braked1905 collision-proof1906 pull-and-push1914 push-and-pull1927 sealed1949 drive-on1954 1852 Miami County (Indiana) Sentinel 6 May 1/4 Although you might contrive to go across in a sort of jerk water stage, from Stillwater to St. Paul, by land, you will probably prefer to go around in the boat. 1863 Morgan County Gaz. (Martinsville, Indiana) 19 Sept. An attempt is to be made to revive the old ‘jerk-water’ railroad from here to Franklin. 1871 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 14 Mar. Some call it the Little Rock peanut train; others the jerk-water train. 1877 C. Bent Hist. Whiteside County, Illinois v. 115 Even what were jocosely denominated ‘jerk water’ lines of stages were doing a good business. 1926 J. Black You can't Win xx. 303 I followed the pay-roll aboard the jerkwater train that carried it to the waiting miners. 1939 Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gaz. 13 Sept. 4/2 It is inevitable—the abandonment of rails on the Katy branch between Neosho Falls and Junction City. For it is a doomed jerkwater branch. 1951 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. x29/2 The only railroad that ever entered the county was a jerkwater line that crossed hardly a mile below the northern county line. < as lemmas |
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