pramn.¹

Brit.

/pram/,

/prɑːm/, U.S.

/præm/

Forms: 1600s– pram, 1700s– prahm, 1700s– prame, 1800s prahme, 1800s praum, 1800s– praam; also Scottish pre-1700 prame, pre-1700 praym, pre-1700 prem.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Dutch. Partly a borrowing from Middle Low German. Etymons: Dutch praam; Middle Low German prām.

Etymology: < (i) Dutch praam (early modern Dutch praem , prame ) and its etymon (ii) Middle Low German prām, praam, prōm (German regional (Low German) Prahm , (Low German: East Friesland) prâm , prame ) < Czech prám (probably via Middle High German prām (German (chiefly northern) Prahm , Prahme )), ultimately < an extended form (m -extension) of the Indo-European base of fare v.¹; compare Polish prom, Russian Church Slavonic pram (14th cent.). The Middle Low German word was borrowed into several other Germanic languages: Old Frisian prām (West Frisian praam), Old Icelandic prámr, Norwegian pram, Old Swedish pram, praam, prom (Swedish pråm), Old Danish pram (Danish pram). Compare French prame (1702; < Dutch). With the Slavonic word compare ( < the same Indo-European base) Old English fearm freight, cargo, Old Saxon farm forward movement, onset, rush, Old High German farm (fast) ship, Old Icelandic farmr freight, cargo, contents, Old Swedish farmber freight, cargo, Old Danish farm freight, cargo. The term was perhaps originally borrowed from Czech by sailors on the upper Elbe. Its spread around the Baltic and the North Sea is attributed to the activities of the merchants of the Hanse. The following probably show an (otherwise unattested) Anglo-Norman borrowing of the Middle Low German word:1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 40 Diuersis carpentariis pro emendacione del prames cariantum victu alia domini de Dansk vsque Conyngburgh, per vij dies., x marc. pr. xiij scot.1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 42 Et pro portagio dictorum piscium ad les prames, v scot [at Danzig].1393 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 175 Johanni Blacdon pro diuersis victualibus per ipsum emptis apud Conyngburgh pur le prame versus Dansk..xxij scot. iiij s. viij d. pr. In sense 1b partly after French prame.

a. An open, flat-bottomed boat or lighter, used esp. in the Baltic and the Netherlands for shipping cargo.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of

sedge-boat1336

shout1395

scout1419

pink1471

punt-boatc1500

palander1524

pram1531

punt1556

bark1598

sword-pink1614

pont1631

schuit1666

pontoon1681

bateau1711

battoe1711

flight1769

scow1780

keel-boat1786

ferry flat1805

ark1809

panga1811

mackinaw boat1812

mudboat1824

pinkie1840

mackinaw1842

sharpie1860

sculling float1874

pass-boat1875

sled1884

scow sloop1885

sharp1891

johnboat1894

ballahoo1902

pram1929

goelette1948

1531 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 142 It was deuisit..that thair maisteris of warke suld gar amend the prame of the brig and gif hir in keping to sum traist hand.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 105 Some long, deepe prams, sowed together with hempe and cord (but vnpitcht or calkt). In these the Muscouian Merchants, saile downe Volga, ouer the Caspian Sea.

1643 Declar. Commons conc. Rebellion in Ireland 49 [They] tooke a Scottish Barke and a Dover barke, and a Pram or Hute, and a Catch.

1712 London Gaz. No. 5050/2 Danish Prams, or Flat-bottom'd Boats.

1762 Gentleman's Mag. June 251/2 The bason where the prames and flat-bottom boats lie.

1807 Sir R. Wilson in Life Gen. R. Wilson (1862) II. vii. 218 Three English praums had also arrived.

1844 Hull Dock Act 114 The word ‘vessel’ shall include ship, lighter, keel, barge, praam, boat, raft.

a1894 R. L. Stevenson Rec. Family of Engineers in N. Rankin Dead Man's Chest (1987) 22 The mate of a praam (stone-lighter) at the Bill Rock.

1922 A. Tilley Mod. France iii. 235 Praams loaded with heavy artillery, gunboats, and pinnaces manoeuvred in squadrons and divisions under the high command of Bruix.

1985 World Archaeol. 16 295 Some of the simple 20th century plank boats from S. Baltic rivers..e.g. the Warnemünde prahm,..are also in this class.

b. A large, flat-bottomed boat mounted with guns and used as a floating battery. Now historical.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > floating battery

floating battery1695

pram1715

cheese box1855

monitor1863

1715 London Gaz. No. 5340. 4 Prames or large Flat-bottomed Boats, one of which is to carry 20 Guns.

1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 126/2 There is a kind of warlike vessel called a prame..equipping in different French ports. Each..has two decks..they are long and broad, but draw very little water, and are rigged after the manner of a ketch.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xx. 269 One of the praams mounted ten guns, and the other eight.

1845 W. Gresley Frank's First Trip 166 A large sort of gun-boats, called Praams, which were flat and wide, with three keels and three masts.

1890 J. Grant Sc. Soldiers of Fortune 29 While twenty-one galleys and two prahms guarded the coast.

1924 Cambr. Hist. Jrnl. 1 148 The immense orders of vessels from the prames to the little péniches..prove that during several weeks he [sc. Napoleon] hoped that the flotilla would fight its way across to Kent.

1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain viii. 223 The new French gunboats, the ship-rigged prames of the invasion flotilla.

a. A ship's boat. Now rare.

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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

1807 R. Stevenson Jrnl. 2 Sept. in R. L. Stevenson Family of Engineers (1912) iii. 122 The author was..not a little surprised that her crew did not cut the praam adrift.

1860 C. Reade Eighth Commandment 338 His work runs into the port of annihilation quicker than pirate can launch praam to attack it.

1894 Times 15 Nov. 7/5 A small boat, known as a ‘pram’, was seen to be launched. The mate..states that..the captain ordered the boat out to row to the shore.

1913 H. Bowers in A. Cherry-Garrard Worst Journey in World (1951) 19 Oates and I..took the whaler & the pram in to rescue the maroons.

b. Chiefly U.S. A very small, flat-bottomed, square-bowed boat, used with sails or oars, esp. as a fishing boat.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > very small

tomtit1857

pram1929

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of

sedge-boat1336

shout1395

scout1419

pink1471

punt-boatc1500

palander1524

pram1531

punt1556

bark1598

sword-pink1614

pont1631

schuit1666

pontoon1681

bateau1711

battoe1711

flight1769

scow1780

keel-boat1786

ferry flat1805

ark1809

panga1811

mackinaw boat1812

mudboat1824

pinkie1840

mackinaw1842

sharpie1860

sculling float1874

pass-boat1875

sled1884

scow sloop1885

sharp1891

johnboat1894

ballahoo1902

pram1929

goelette1948

1929 Times 26 Apr. 9/7 The boats used are 10ft. dinghies of ‘pram’ design, and they are Bermuda-rigged.

1956 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Oct. 21/4 Hard luck forced Mary Sullivan and Henry White out of the competition when a boom broke on one of their prams.

2002 Publishers Weekly 7 Jan. 65/2 She is terrified of sailing solo in the prams that look like bathtubs.

Compounds

General attributive, as pram boat, pram bow, †pram brig, †pram ship, etc.

ΚΠ

1548 MS Rec. Aberdeen XX, in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 540/1 For the prame [printed prane] hyir havand thair gudis to the schip.

1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 278 (Ordinance of Stockholm) Disbursements and Charges..Pilotage, Anchorage, Beaconage, Prahm or Lighter-piles [etc.].

1804 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 558/1 That part of the enemy's flotilla, consisting of two praam ships bearing the flag of chief of division and both under French colours.

1813 Times 9 Feb. 3/2 We have an account here of 23 of the enemy's praam-brigs having escaped from Calais.

1849 W. R. O'Byrne Naval Biogr. Dict. 1237/2 An armed cutter, a praam-brig, and a gun vessel.

1902 Rudder Apr. 208 The fore overhang [of the Meteor] is neither the old clipper stem nor the new pram bow.

1952 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 15 Feb. 8/7 (advt.) 8' pram boat.

1986 I. Wedde Symmes Hole (1988) 79 The boat was a Kitset double-kelson dory... The low surface chop smacked against its pram bows.

1993 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 2 Dec. e2/1 (advt.) Outbd. motor, 2 small Alum. Pram boats, boat anchors, [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pramn.²

Brit.

/pram/, U.S.

/præm/

Forms:

α. 1800s– pram.

β. Chiefly Australian (now rare) 1800s– peram Brit. /pəˈram/, U.S. /pəˈræm/, Australian English /pəˈræm/.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: perambulator n.

Etymology: Shortened < perambulator n.

1. A carriage for a baby or young child, designed to be pushed by a person on foot; (now usually) one consisting of a cradle-like structure mounted on four wheels, with a handle for pushing and a hood. See perambulator n. 3.

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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

α.

1881 Truth 25 Dec. 36/2 Lictors her nursemaid escorted, As the Babe to her ‘pram’ was convey'd.

1884 Graphic 25 Oct. 423/2 Another favourite custom of nurses is to walk two or three abreast, chattering and laughing as they push their ‘prams’.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Sept. 2/1 The Pram and the Baby.

1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion v. 173 When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me off.

1921 E. Ferber Girls xix. 366 She..insisted on trundling her up and down Prairie Avenue in the smart English pram.

1955 Times 4 June 7/4 There are women who would not exchange a familiar pram with a quirk in its steering for the best new one that money could buy.

1975 H. Jolly Bk. Child Care viii. 124 Carrying a baby in a ‘papoose’ sling or attached to a frame on the back is becoming more popular as an occasional substitute for pushing him in a pram.

2005 Baby & You Feb. 51/2 I couldn't imagine pushing a heavy, traditional pram, not in a million years—or life without travel cots.

β. 1897 S. Austral. Reg. (Adelaide) 25 Jan. 1/2 (advt.) All kinds of bedsteads, fancy bentwood furniture, perams, fenders, &c.1923 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 7 Apr. 1/2 (headline) Five mothers push ‘perams’ in 52-mile race.1978 Victor Harbour (S. Austral.) Times 11 Jan. 13/3 (advt.) Wanted to buy: old style wicker peram, reasonable cond[ition].

2. British. A handcart or (later also) small electric float for delivering milk. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > wheelbarrow or handcart > for carrying milk

pram1897

1897 Daily News 20 Jan. 12/6 Milkman seeks Work Milking Cows, or with a pram.

1917 Times 26 July 9/3 We constantly see milk carts and ‘prams’ wandering about from street to street.

1947 in Dairyman Mar. 105 5 Electric prams..[£]1,150... 5 Prams.

2001 Daily Mail (Nexis) 31 May 68 (caption) A milkman in the fifties makes his daily delivery to a housewife using his hand-powered milk ‘pram’.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in sense 1).

pram handle n.

ΚΠ

1934 D. Thomas Let. 15 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 102 Mothers are resting their bellies on pram-handles.

2000 S. Mackay Heligoland i. 2 Her own chilblained fingers were bent into claws from gripping the pram handle.

pramload n.

ΚΠ

1920 K. Mansfield Bliss & Other Short Stories 23 Isabel wheeled a neat pramload of prim dolls.

2002 Independent 20 May (Review section) 5 She..was taking pram-loads of laundry to the ‘steamie’ from the age of 10.

pram rug n.

ΚΠ

1922 Times 5 Oct. 4/7 (advt.) Child's white fur coat. Hat. Pram rug, as new.

1998 Grimsby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 7 Dec. 2 Mrs Binns' mother has also been busy, knitting..shawls, booties, mittens, bonnets and pram rugs.

C2.

pram park n. (a) an area, usually in a public building, where prams may be left; (b) a frame attached to the front of a bus for carrying prams (rare).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > place for parking prams

pram park1938

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > apparatus for carrying prams on

pram park1938

1938 Times 31 May 13/7 A cinema, a children's play room, and a large ‘pram park’ are features of a new Health Centre.

1963 Times 3 May 15/7 Sir Robert Cary asked how one gets a pram on a bus. In New Zealand they are carried in special pram-parks on the front of the radiators.

2003 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 9 July 8 One of the park attendants saw the buggy and took it to the pram park without realising there was a baby inside.

pram-pusher n. a person who pushes a pram, spec. a young mother.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > young

maid-mother1832

pram-pusher1908

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle > pushing pram > one who

pram-pusher1908

1908 E. Fagg & S. Poole Bladud 16 Here, you pram-pusher, git!

1963 Guardian 25 Jan. 8/7 The pram-pushers are always willing to discuss these, as a change from the inevitable baby-talk.

2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 18 Dec. 81/3 Pram-pushers stop by for a quick bite of inventive salads.., while the blue-haired set linger over sweets.

pram-pushing adj. and n. (a) adj. that pushes a pram; (b) n. the action or practice of pushing a pram.

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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle > pushing pram

pram-pushing1933

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [adjective] > by wheeled conveyance > pushing pram

pram-pushing1933

1933 Punch 10 May 516/1 Possibly the pram-pushing girl's hat caught her eye.

1938 Times 26 Oct. 3/4 (advt.) Nurse [required]... Large garden: no pram pushing.

1992 N. Cohn Heart of World xvi. 229 Pram-pushing matrons, taking the morning air.

2004 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 21 Oct. 28 Government guidance states that the ‘ideal [children's] centre is a single building..within pram pushing distance of the families it serves’.

pram race n. British a race between people pushing prams, often to raise money for charity.

ΚΠ

1965 Times 8 Mar. 6/1 (headline) Student killed in rag week pram race.

2005 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 13 June 10 A massive pram race would attract people of all ages and everyone in the area would take part in a real community event.

pram suit n. a one-piece garment for an infant (or occasionally a toddler), typically incorporating bootees, mittens, and a hood, and designed for outdoor wear, over lighter clothes, originally esp. when in a pram.

ΚΠ

1927 Levin Daily Chron. (N.Z.) 25 Mar. 3/4 We have a full range of goods now in stock. Bonnets, hats, bootees, shoettes, pilches, gaiters, bibs, pram suits, coats, rompers, shawls, sateen and silk quilts.

1976 Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 18 Nov. 36/2 Pamper baby with warmly hooded and footed pramsuits at pretty savings.

2011 www.mumsnet.com 31 Oct. (forum post, accessed 23 June 2017) We never used a pram suit or snowsuit. We were given a fleece-blanket-wrap and he went in a babygro, trousers, jumper and blanket.

Derivatives

'pramful n.

ΚΠ

1957 M. Frayn in Granta 9 Mar. 20/1 People said that an old woman had been arrested on the other side of the village, pushing a whole pramful of stolen goods along.

1990 K. Newman Night Mayor (BNC) 175 A white-haired little old lady pushing a pramful of quintuplets started crossing the road up ahead of us.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pram
释义	pramn.¹ Brit. /pram/, /prɑːm/, U.S. /præm/ Forms: 1600s– pram, 1700s– prahm, 1700s– prame, 1800s prahme, 1800s praum, 1800s– praam; also Scottish pre-1700 prame, pre-1700 praym, pre-1700 prem. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Dutch. Partly a borrowing from Middle Low German. Etymons: Dutch praam; Middle Low German prām. Etymology: < (i) Dutch praam (early modern Dutch praem , prame ) and its etymon (ii) Middle Low German prām, praam, prōm (German regional (Low German) Prahm , (Low German: East Friesland) prâm , prame ) < Czech prám (probably via Middle High German prām (German (chiefly northern) Prahm , Prahme )), ultimately < an extended form (m -extension) of the Indo-European base of fare v.¹; compare Polish prom, Russian Church Slavonic pram (14th cent.). The Middle Low German word was borrowed into several other Germanic languages: Old Frisian prām (West Frisian praam), Old Icelandic prámr, Norwegian pram, Old Swedish pram, praam, prom (Swedish pråm), Old Danish pram (Danish pram). Compare French prame (1702; < Dutch). With the Slavonic word compare ( < the same Indo-European base) Old English fearm freight, cargo, Old Saxon farm forward movement, onset, rush, Old High German farm (fast) ship, Old Icelandic farmr freight, cargo, contents, Old Swedish farmber freight, cargo, Old Danish farm freight, cargo. The term was perhaps originally borrowed from Czech by sailors on the upper Elbe. Its spread around the Baltic and the North Sea is attributed to the activities of the merchants of the Hanse. The following probably show an (otherwise unattested) Anglo-Norman borrowing of the Middle Low German word:1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 40 Diuersis carpentariis pro emendacione del prames cariantum victu alia domini de Dansk vsque Conyngburgh, per vij dies., x marc. pr. xiij scot.1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 42 Et pro portagio dictorum piscium ad les prames, v scot [at Danzig].1393 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 175 Johanni Blacdon pro diuersis victualibus per ipsum emptis apud Conyngburgh pur le prame versus Dansk..xxij scot. iiij s. viij d. pr. In sense 1b partly after French prame. 1. a. An open, flat-bottomed boat or lighter, used esp. in the Baltic and the Netherlands for shipping cargo. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of sedge-boat1336 shout1395 scout1419 pink1471 punt-boatc1500 palander1524 pram1531 punt1556 bark1598 sword-pink1614 pont1631 schuit1666 pontoon1681 bateau1711 battoe1711 flight1769 scow1780 keel-boat1786 ferry flat1805 ark1809 panga1811 mackinaw boat1812 mudboat1824 pinkie1840 mackinaw1842 sharpie1860 sculling float1874 pass-boat1875 sled1884 scow sloop1885 sharp1891 johnboat1894 ballahoo1902 pram1929 goelette1948 1531 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 142 It was deuisit..that thair maisteris of warke suld gar amend the prame of the brig and gif hir in keping to sum traist hand. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 105 Some long, deepe prams, sowed together with hempe and cord (but vnpitcht or calkt). In these the Muscouian Merchants, saile downe Volga, ouer the Caspian Sea. 1643 Declar. Commons conc. Rebellion in Ireland 49 [They] tooke a Scottish Barke and a Dover barke, and a Pram or Hute, and a Catch. 1712 London Gaz. No. 5050/2 Danish Prams, or Flat-bottom'd Boats. 1762 Gentleman's Mag. June 251/2 The bason where the prames and flat-bottom boats lie. 1807 Sir R. Wilson in Life Gen. R. Wilson (1862) II. vii. 218 Three English praums had also arrived. 1844 Hull Dock Act 114 The word ‘vessel’ shall include ship, lighter, keel, barge, praam, boat, raft. a1894 R. L. Stevenson Rec. Family of Engineers in N. Rankin Dead Man's Chest (1987) 22 The mate of a praam (stone-lighter) at the Bill Rock. 1922 A. Tilley Mod. France iii. 235 Praams loaded with heavy artillery, gunboats, and pinnaces manoeuvred in squadrons and divisions under the high command of Bruix. 1985 World Archaeol. 16 295 Some of the simple 20th century plank boats from S. Baltic rivers..e.g. the Warnemünde prahm,..are also in this class. b. A large, flat-bottomed boat mounted with guns and used as a floating battery. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > floating battery floating battery1695 pram1715 cheese box1855 monitor1863 1715 London Gaz. No. 5340. 4 Prames or large Flat-bottomed Boats, one of which is to carry 20 Guns. 1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 126/2 There is a kind of warlike vessel called a prame..equipping in different French ports. Each..has two decks..they are long and broad, but draw very little water, and are rigged after the manner of a ketch. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xx. 269 One of the praams mounted ten guns, and the other eight. 1845 W. Gresley Frank's First Trip 166 A large sort of gun-boats, called Praams, which were flat and wide, with three keels and three masts. 1890 J. Grant Sc. Soldiers of Fortune 29 While twenty-one galleys and two prahms guarded the coast. 1924 Cambr. Hist. Jrnl. 1 148 The immense orders of vessels from the prames to the little péniches..prove that during several weeks he [sc. Napoleon] hoped that the flotilla would fight its way across to Kent. 1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain viii. 223 The new French gunboats, the ship-rigged prames of the invasion flotilla. 2. a. A ship's boat. Now rare. 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 1807 R. Stevenson Jrnl. 2 Sept. in R. L. Stevenson Family of Engineers (1912) iii. 122 The author was..not a little surprised that her crew did not cut the praam adrift. 1860 C. Reade Eighth Commandment 338 His work runs into the port of annihilation quicker than pirate can launch praam to attack it. 1894 Times 15 Nov. 7/5 A small boat, known as a ‘pram’, was seen to be launched. The mate..states that..the captain ordered the boat out to row to the shore. 1913 H. Bowers in A. Cherry-Garrard Worst Journey in World (1951) 19 Oates and I..took the whaler & the pram in to rescue the maroons. b. Chiefly U.S. A very small, flat-bottomed, square-bowed boat, used with sails or oars, esp. as a fishing boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > very small tomtit1857 pram1929 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of sedge-boat1336 shout1395 scout1419 pink1471 punt-boatc1500 palander1524 pram1531 punt1556 bark1598 sword-pink1614 pont1631 schuit1666 pontoon1681 bateau1711 battoe1711 flight1769 scow1780 keel-boat1786 ferry flat1805 ark1809 panga1811 mackinaw boat1812 mudboat1824 pinkie1840 mackinaw1842 sharpie1860 sculling float1874 pass-boat1875 sled1884 scow sloop1885 sharp1891 johnboat1894 ballahoo1902 pram1929 goelette1948 1929 Times 26 Apr. 9/7 The boats used are 10ft. dinghies of ‘pram’ design, and they are Bermuda-rigged. 1956 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Oct. 21/4 Hard luck forced Mary Sullivan and Henry White out of the competition when a boom broke on one of their prams. 2002 Publishers Weekly 7 Jan. 65/2 She is terrified of sailing solo in the prams that look like bathtubs. Compounds General attributive, as pram boat, pram bow, †pram brig, †pram ship, etc. ΚΠ 1548 MS Rec. Aberdeen XX, in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 540/1 For the prame [printed prane] hyir havand thair gudis to the schip. 1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 278 (Ordinance of Stockholm) Disbursements and Charges..Pilotage, Anchorage, Beaconage, Prahm or Lighter-piles [etc.]. 1804 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 558/1 That part of the enemy's flotilla, consisting of two praam ships bearing the flag of chief of division and both under French colours. 1813 Times 9 Feb. 3/2 We have an account here of 23 of the enemy's praam-brigs having escaped from Calais. 1849 W. R. O'Byrne Naval Biogr. Dict. 1237/2 An armed cutter, a praam-brig, and a gun vessel. 1902 Rudder Apr. 208 The fore overhang [of the Meteor] is neither the old clipper stem nor the new pram bow. 1952 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 15 Feb. 8/7 (advt.) 8' pram boat. 1986 I. Wedde Symmes Hole (1988) 79 The boat was a Kitset double-kelson dory... The low surface chop smacked against its pram bows. 1993 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 2 Dec. e2/1 (advt.) Outbd. motor, 2 small Alum. Pram boats, boat anchors, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pramn.² Brit. /pram/, U.S. /præm/ Forms: α. 1800s– pram. β. Chiefly Australian (now rare) 1800s– peram Brit. /pəˈram/, U.S. /pəˈræm/, Australian English /pəˈræm/. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: perambulator n. Etymology: Shortened < perambulator n. 1. A carriage for a baby or young child, designed to be pushed by a person on foot; (now usually) one consisting of a cradle-like structure mounted on four wheels, with a handle for pushing and a hood. See perambulator n. 3. 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 α. 1881 Truth 25 Dec. 36/2 Lictors her nursemaid escorted, As the Babe to her ‘pram’ was convey'd. 1884 Graphic 25 Oct. 423/2 Another favourite custom of nurses is to walk two or three abreast, chattering and laughing as they push their ‘prams’. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Sept. 2/1 The Pram and the Baby. 1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion v. 173 When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me off. 1921 E. Ferber Girls xix. 366 She..insisted on trundling her up and down Prairie Avenue in the smart English pram. 1955 Times 4 June 7/4 There are women who would not exchange a familiar pram with a quirk in its steering for the best new one that money could buy. 1975 H. Jolly Bk. Child Care viii. 124 Carrying a baby in a ‘papoose’ sling or attached to a frame on the back is becoming more popular as an occasional substitute for pushing him in a pram. 2005 Baby & You Feb. 51/2 I couldn't imagine pushing a heavy, traditional pram, not in a million years—or life without travel cots. β. 1897 S. Austral. Reg. (Adelaide) 25 Jan. 1/2 (advt.) All kinds of bedsteads, fancy bentwood furniture, perams, fenders, &c.1923 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 7 Apr. 1/2 (headline) Five mothers push ‘perams’ in 52-mile race.1978 Victor Harbour (S. Austral.) Times 11 Jan. 13/3 (advt.) Wanted to buy: old style wicker peram, reasonable cond[ition]. 2. British. A handcart or (later also) small electric float for delivering milk. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > wheelbarrow or handcart > for carrying milk pram1897 1897 Daily News 20 Jan. 12/6 Milkman seeks Work Milking Cows, or with a pram. 1917 Times 26 July 9/3 We constantly see milk carts and ‘prams’ wandering about from street to street. 1947 in Dairyman Mar. 105 5 Electric prams..[£]1,150... 5 Prams. 2001 Daily Mail (Nexis) 31 May 68 (caption) A milkman in the fifties makes his daily delivery to a housewife using his hand-powered milk ‘pram’. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 1). pram handle n. ΚΠ 1934 D. Thomas Let. 15 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 102 Mothers are resting their bellies on pram-handles. 2000 S. Mackay Heligoland i. 2 Her own chilblained fingers were bent into claws from gripping the pram handle. pramload n. ΚΠ 1920 K. Mansfield Bliss & Other Short Stories 23 Isabel wheeled a neat pramload of prim dolls. 2002 Independent 20 May (Review section) 5 She..was taking pram-loads of laundry to the ‘steamie’ from the age of 10. pram rug n. ΚΠ 1922 Times 5 Oct. 4/7 (advt.) Child's white fur coat. Hat. Pram rug, as new. 1998 Grimsby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 7 Dec. 2 Mrs Binns' mother has also been busy, knitting..shawls, booties, mittens, bonnets and pram rugs. C2. pram park n. (a) an area, usually in a public building, where prams may be left; (b) a frame attached to the front of a bus for carrying prams (rare). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > place for parking prams pram park1938 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > apparatus for carrying prams on pram park1938 1938 Times 31 May 13/7 A cinema, a children's play room, and a large ‘pram park’ are features of a new Health Centre. 1963 Times 3 May 15/7 Sir Robert Cary asked how one gets a pram on a bus. In New Zealand they are carried in special pram-parks on the front of the radiators. 2003 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 9 July 8 One of the park attendants saw the buggy and took it to the pram park without realising there was a baby inside. pram-pusher n. a person who pushes a pram, spec. a young mother. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > young maid-mother1832 pram-pusher1908 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle > pushing pram > one who pram-pusher1908 1908 E. Fagg & S. Poole Bladud 16 Here, you pram-pusher, git! 1963 Guardian 25 Jan. 8/7 The pram-pushers are always willing to discuss these, as a change from the inevitable baby-talk. 2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 18 Dec. 81/3 Pram-pushers stop by for a quick bite of inventive salads.., while the blue-haired set linger over sweets. pram-pushing adj. and n. (a) adj. that pushes a pram; (b) n. the action or practice of pushing a pram. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle > pushing pram pram-pushing1933 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [adjective] > by wheeled conveyance > pushing pram pram-pushing1933 1933 Punch 10 May 516/1 Possibly the pram-pushing girl's hat caught her eye. 1938 Times 26 Oct. 3/4 (advt.) Nurse [required]... Large garden: no pram pushing. 1992 N. Cohn Heart of World xvi. 229 Pram-pushing matrons, taking the morning air. 2004 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 21 Oct. 28 Government guidance states that the ‘ideal [children's] centre is a single building..within pram pushing distance of the families it serves’. pram race n. British a race between people pushing prams, often to raise money for charity. ΚΠ 1965 Times 8 Mar. 6/1 (headline) Student killed in rag week pram race. 2005 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 13 June 10 A massive pram race would attract people of all ages and everyone in the area would take part in a real community event. pram suit n. a one-piece garment for an infant (or occasionally a toddler), typically incorporating bootees, mittens, and a hood, and designed for outdoor wear, over lighter clothes, originally esp. when in a pram. ΚΠ 1927 Levin Daily Chron. (N.Z.) 25 Mar. 3/4 We have a full range of goods now in stock. Bonnets, hats, bootees, shoettes, pilches, gaiters, bibs, pram suits, coats, rompers, shawls, sateen and silk quilts. 1976 Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 18 Nov. 36/2 Pamper baby with warmly hooded and footed pramsuits at pretty savings. 2011 www.mumsnet.com 31 Oct. (forum post, accessed 23 June 2017) We never used a pram suit or snowsuit. We were given a fleece-blanket-wrap and he went in a babygro, trousers, jumper and blanket. Derivatives 'pramful n. ΚΠ 1957 M. Frayn in Granta 9 Mar. 20/1 People said that an old woman had been arrested on the other side of the village, pushing a whole pramful of stolen goods along. 1990 K. Newman Night Mayor (BNC) 175 A white-haired little old lady pushing a pramful of quintuplets started crossing the road up ahead of us. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1531n.²1881
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