| 单词 | puffing billy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPuffing Billy Puffing Billy n. a steam locomotive or steam train; also in extended use.The first steam locomotive to run successfully on rails was built by William Hedley for use at Wylam colliery, Northumberland, in 1813, and was apparently named ‘Puffing Billy’ at or soon after this date (see quot. 1864). ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive steam locomotive1812 steam-engine1815 steamer1837 Puffing Billy1848 1848 Times 15 Feb. 8/4 I think they called it a locomotive, but the men generally called it a ‘puffing Billy’. 1864 Illustr. London News 15 Oct. 392/1 On the south side of the Museum are a couple of locomotive engines..one is the oldest locomotive engine in existence..the original old ‘Puffing Billy’... Upon one side of it hangs a document dated 1815, from which it appears some great objection had been made by local landowners to the ‘puffing’ propensities of the aforesaid ‘Billy’. 1895 A. Patterson Man & Nature on Broads 61 Them puffin-Billies ha' turned all that over. 1922 H. Van Loon Story of Mankind (1927) 409 At the present time, any well-behaved flivver..can do better than these early ‘Puffing Billies’. 1977 Times 19 Apr. 5/5 (caption) A replica of an early American ‘Puffing Billy’..at the National Railway Museum, York. 2001 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 14 July r30 Take the train this Christmas. Not just any old puffing billy but the trans-Siberian. < as lemmas |
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