单词 | rung staff |
释义 | > as lemmasrung staff General attributive, esp. in sense ‘having rungs’, as rung-cart, rung ladder, †rung staff, rung-wheel, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > with open sides rung-cart1854 a1300 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Bodl.) (1929) 855 Runge staves [a1325 Arun. ronge stafs; a1325 Trin. Cambr. wunge staves; glossing a1325 Cambr. roilouns]. 1389–90 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 596 Pro lucracione 20 gang de rungstoures pro carectis, 18 d. 1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xiv. 102 The water Plegnick which mooueth either inuisibly and secretly vnder the water and by the water with one rong wheele. 1791 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 277 There are about 300 small rung carts,..which are employed in leading home the fuel from the moss, and the corn to the barn-yard. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) In a corn-mill..the one which has cogs drives the other, and is called the cog-wheel, the other, from its having spokes or rungs, is called the rung-wheel. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters vi. 116 I was..so greatly recruited..as to be fit..to be removed, in the old man's rung-cart. 1907 W. R. O. Hill 45 Years' Experiences in N. Queensland, 1861–1905 xiv. 64 He actually came up forty feet on a rung ladder..and died a minute after he reached the surface. 1934 Pop. Mech. Mar. 353/2 To make it possible for a workman to stand on a rung ladder as..on the floor, a removable step with a wide tread has been made. 1992 Family Handyman Jan. 84/1 Here's a good way to mount a paint tray on an ordinary rung stepladder. < as lemmas |
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