perambulatorn.

Brit.

/pəˈrambjᵿleɪtə/, U.S.

/pəˈræmbjəˌleɪdər/

Forms: 1600s– perambulator, 1800s perambylatur (irregular).

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: perambulate v.; Latin perambulāt- , perambulāre , -or suffix.

Etymology: < perambulate v. or its etymon classical Latin perambulāt-, past participial stem of perambulāre + -or suffix. Compare post-classical Latin perambulator surveyor (frequently 1201–1300 in British sources), explorer (1622 in a British source).A form perambulater (-er suffix¹) is also attested sparingly in modern use; compare:1917 M. Preston Bab 231 A nurse with a baby in a perambulater came along just then.

a. gen. A person who walks or travels through or about a place; a traveller; a pedestrian. Also figurative. Now archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > one who travels about a place

perambulator1611

circulator1744

scourer1878

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xi. 310/1 Their Metropolitane Citie Canterbury, which was the paterne (saith that Countries Perambulator [sc. Lambarde]) that this Sigebert followed in the erection of his.

1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 81 The Longing desire that America hath to entertaine this vnmatchable Perambulator.

1797 W. Mavor Voy., Trav. & Discov. XV. 154 The moræa collina and spathacea, the dependent leaves of which twined round the feet of the perambulator, and frequently threw him down.

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. xix. 305 Were it not for the canals..the element, water, would be altogether absent from the perambulator's view.

1870 C. H. Hazlewood & A. Williams Leave it to Me 3 Joe's a perambulator;..a perambulating greengrocer, called by vulgar people a costermonger.

1925 J. Bone (title) The London perambulator.

1971 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 10 (advt.) Dickens was a determined perambulator of London, either in search of material..or simply wandering the streets.

1991 Backpacker Oct. 33/1 Glacier perambulators wear two, each of which has a handle and a long sling.

b. spec. A person who performs a perambulation (perambulation n. 1a) to determine the boundaries of a territory; a surveyor. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > round or about > round boundaries

perambulator1667

1667 Rec. Muddy River & Brookline, Mass. (1875) 39 Mr. John Hull,..Peter Aspinwall are chosen perambulators for the bounds between Muddy River and Roxbury.

1699 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1881) VII. 234 The perambulators chosen by the Selectmen to run the line between Charlestown and Boston.

1708 S. Sewall Diary (1973) I. 593 Capt. Culliver and others perambulating for Braintrey and Milton, went with us from B. to C... At C...we took leave of the perambulators.

1815 Sir W. Grant in Cooper's Rep., Chancery 315 The Course taken by the Perambulators..was such as to include the Whole of..what they claimed as Common belonging to the Parish.

1862 J. T. Smith Parl. Remembrancer Oct. 189 Every one knows how many ‘Gospel oaks’ there are in different places:..at which the perambulators have, for ages, been accustomed to stand..while the ‘gospel’ has been pronounced.

1908 J. H. Ramsay Dawn of Constit. xxx. 477 The Bill required..the immediate prosecution of the perambulations in the districts where the perambulators had not appeared.

1991 R. Grant Royal Forests of Eng. (BNC) 139 The perambulators swore that Henry II had afforested the whole of Huntingdonshire.

2. Surveying. A device for measuring distances, consisting of a large wheel of known circumference attached to a handle by which it is rolled over the ground, with a mechanism for recording the number of revolutions; a surveyor's wheel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring distances > distance travelled

waywiser1651

perambulator1688

wheel1696

walking wheel1701

odometer1702

pedometer1723

pedometer1728

podometer1728

reel measure1803

viameter1845

roadometer1848

trocheameter1857

trechometer1858

cyclometer1880

pedimeter1890

passometer1902

sledge-meter1902

speedometer1929

mileometer1953

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 374/2 A Perambulator..by which they measure the distances between place and place.

1752 W. Stukeley in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1887) III. 465 The machine called perambulator, or way-wiser, which measures the road.

1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 113 From the mouth of Cuddalore river to the north end of the base I measured, with a perambulator, just four miles and one furlong.

1828 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) II. 57 The perambulator..has a wheel of 8¼ feet, or half a pole, in circumference.

1855 J. Butler Trav. & Adventures Assam i. v. 56 We only came eight miles one furlong, by the perambulator, in eight hours.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 683/2 Delineator i. (Tailoring.) A pattern formed by rule; being expansible in the directions where the sizes vary, as indicated by the varying lengths obtained by measurement. 2. (Surveying.) A perambulator, or geodetical instrument on wheels, with registering devices for recording distances between points [etc.].

1913 C. F. Close & E. W. Cox Text Bk. Topogr. & Geogr. Surv. (ed. 2) iv. 76 A perambulator should not be used over very rough ground, and both it and the cyclometer should be checked over known measured distances.

1964 D. Greenhood Mapping ix. 262/2 For doing the same kind of measuring on the ground itself, there are various makes of distance meters, sometimes called ‘perambulators’, which are wheels that you push by a handle, like a roller toy.

1999 Afr. Stud. Rev. 42 145 The hapless perambulator wheel operator was photographed under armed guard with a noose around his neck—a ‘joke’ according to the editor.

3. A carriage for a baby or young child, which may be pushed along by a person on foot. Now usually shortened to pram.Originally resembling a chair mounted on two or (esp.) three wheels (cf. pushchair n. at push- comb. form 2). In later use usually resembling a cradle mounted on four wheels, with a handle for pushing and often a folding hood.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > perambulator for child

mail-cart1767

baby carriage1825

carriage1829

go-cart1853

perambulator1853

pushcart1853

bassinet1855

baby buggy1862

buggy1862

gypsy cab1864

baby coach1866

pushcar1867

pram1881

wagon1887

pushchair1893

kiddy car1918

stroller1920

pusher1953

1853 Times 10 Mar. 10/5 (advt.) Inquire for A.Z., Burton's Registered Infant Perambulator office.]

1853 Times 29 Aug. 2/3 (advt.) Patronised by the nobility and gentry—Burton's Registered Infant Perambulator.

1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 116/2 I know pretty well when my neighbour overhead is trying to wheel his baby to sleep in a perambulator at three o'clock in the morning.

1904 Sat. Rev. 4 June 713/2 There is little Freddy waiting..to be lifted—‘upsidaisy’—into his perambulator.

1972 Daily Tel. 3 June 32/4 They came with shopping bags, picnic baskets, babies in perambulators and pushchairs, babies in arms.

1992 A. Morton Diana (BNC) (1993) 14 A nanny..took the infant Diana for walks around the grounds in a well-used, highly-sprung perambulator.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	perambulator
释义	perambulatorn. Brit. /pəˈrambjᵿleɪtə/, U.S. /pəˈræmbjəˌleɪdər/ Forms: 1600s– perambulator, 1800s perambylatur (irregular). Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: perambulate v.; Latin perambulāt- , perambulāre , -or suffix. Etymology: < perambulate v. or its etymon classical Latin perambulāt-, past participial stem of perambulāre + -or suffix. Compare post-classical Latin perambulator surveyor (frequently 1201–1300 in British sources), explorer (1622 in a British source).A form perambulater (-er suffix¹) is also attested sparingly in modern use; compare:1917 M. Preston Bab 231 A nurse with a baby in a perambulater came along just then. 1. a. gen. A person who walks or travels through or about a place; a traveller; a pedestrian. Also figurative. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > one who travels about a place perambulator1611 circulator1744 scourer1878 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xi. 310/1 Their Metropolitane Citie Canterbury, which was the paterne (saith that Countries Perambulator [sc. Lambarde]) that this Sigebert followed in the erection of his. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 81 The Longing desire that America hath to entertaine this vnmatchable Perambulator. 1797 W. Mavor Voy., Trav. & Discov. XV. 154 The moræa collina and spathacea, the dependent leaves of which twined round the feet of the perambulator, and frequently threw him down. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. xix. 305 Were it not for the canals..the element, water, would be altogether absent from the perambulator's view. 1870 C. H. Hazlewood & A. Williams Leave it to Me 3 Joe's a perambulator;..a perambulating greengrocer, called by vulgar people a costermonger. 1925 J. Bone (title) The London perambulator. 1971 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 10 (advt.) Dickens was a determined perambulator of London, either in search of material..or simply wandering the streets. 1991 Backpacker Oct. 33/1 Glacier perambulators wear two, each of which has a handle and a long sling. b. spec. A person who performs a perambulation (perambulation n. 1a) to determine the boundaries of a territory; a surveyor. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > round or about > round boundaries perambulator1667 1667 Rec. Muddy River & Brookline, Mass. (1875) 39 Mr. John Hull,..Peter Aspinwall are chosen perambulators for the bounds between Muddy River and Roxbury. 1699 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1881) VII. 234 The perambulators chosen by the Selectmen to run the line between Charlestown and Boston. 1708 S. Sewall Diary (1973) I. 593 Capt. Culliver and others perambulating for Braintrey and Milton, went with us from B. to C... At C...we took leave of the perambulators. 1815 Sir W. Grant in Cooper's Rep., Chancery 315 The Course taken by the Perambulators..was such as to include the Whole of..what they claimed as Common belonging to the Parish. 1862 J. T. Smith Parl. Remembrancer Oct. 189 Every one knows how many ‘Gospel oaks’ there are in different places:..at which the perambulators have, for ages, been accustomed to stand..while the ‘gospel’ has been pronounced. 1908 J. H. Ramsay Dawn of Constit. xxx. 477 The Bill required..the immediate prosecution of the perambulations in the districts where the perambulators had not appeared. 1991 R. Grant Royal Forests of Eng. (BNC) 139 The perambulators swore that Henry II had afforested the whole of Huntingdonshire. 2. Surveying. A device for measuring distances, consisting of a large wheel of known circumference attached to a handle by which it is rolled over the ground, with a mechanism for recording the number of revolutions; a surveyor's wheel. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring distances > distance travelled waywiser1651 perambulator1688 wheel1696 walking wheel1701 odometer1702 pedometer1723 pedometer1728 podometer1728 reel measure1803 viameter1845 roadometer1848 trocheameter1857 trechometer1858 cyclometer1880 pedimeter1890 passometer1902 sledge-meter1902 speedometer1929 mileometer1953 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 374/2 A Perambulator..by which they measure the distances between place and place. 1752 W. Stukeley in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1887) III. 465 The machine called perambulator, or way-wiser, which measures the road. 1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 113 From the mouth of Cuddalore river to the north end of the base I measured, with a perambulator, just four miles and one furlong. 1828 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) II. 57 The perambulator..has a wheel of 8¼ feet, or half a pole, in circumference. 1855 J. Butler Trav. & Adventures Assam i. v. 56 We only came eight miles one furlong, by the perambulator, in eight hours. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 683/2 Delineator i. (Tailoring.) A pattern formed by rule; being expansible in the directions where the sizes vary, as indicated by the varying lengths obtained by measurement. 2. (Surveying.) A perambulator, or geodetical instrument on wheels, with registering devices for recording distances between points [etc.]. 1913 C. F. Close & E. W. Cox Text Bk. Topogr. & Geogr. Surv. (ed. 2) iv. 76 A perambulator should not be used over very rough ground, and both it and the cyclometer should be checked over known measured distances. 1964 D. Greenhood Mapping ix. 262/2 For doing the same kind of measuring on the ground itself, there are various makes of distance meters, sometimes called ‘perambulators’, which are wheels that you push by a handle, like a roller toy. 1999 Afr. Stud. Rev. 42 145 The hapless perambulator wheel operator was photographed under armed guard with a noose around his neck—a ‘joke’ according to the editor. 3. A carriage for a baby or young child, which may be pushed along by a person on foot. Now usually shortened to pram.Originally resembling a chair mounted on two or (esp.) three wheels (cf. pushchair n. at push- comb. form 2). In later use usually resembling a cradle mounted on four wheels, with a handle for pushing and often a folding hood. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > perambulator for child mail-cart1767 baby carriage1825 carriage1829 go-cart1853 perambulator1853 pushcart1853 bassinet1855 baby buggy1862 buggy1862 gypsy cab1864 baby coach1866 pushcar1867 pram1881 wagon1887 pushchair1893 kiddy car1918 stroller1920 pusher1953 1853 Times 10 Mar. 10/5 (advt.) Inquire for A.Z., Burton's Registered Infant Perambulator office.] 1853 Times 29 Aug. 2/3 (advt.) Patronised by the nobility and gentry—Burton's Registered Infant Perambulator. 1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 116/2 I know pretty well when my neighbour overhead is trying to wheel his baby to sleep in a perambulator at three o'clock in the morning. 1904 Sat. Rev. 4 June 713/2 There is little Freddy waiting..to be lifted—‘upsidaisy’—into his perambulator. 1972 Daily Tel. 3 June 32/4 They came with shopping bags, picnic baskets, babies in perambulators and pushchairs, babies in arms. 1992 A. Morton Diana (BNC) (1993) 14 A nanny..took the infant Diana for walks around the grounds in a well-used, highly-sprung perambulator. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1611
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