| 单词 | birdcage car |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbirdcage car c. New Zealand. More fully birdcage car, birdcage carriage, etc. A type of railway carriage with a corridor the outside wall of which is enclosed only by wire mesh. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage caravan1821 private car1826 Jim Crow car1835 ladies' car1841 saloon car or carriage1842 palace car1844 ladies' carriage1847 parliamentary carriage1849 parlour car1859 composite carriage1868 Pullman1869 observation car1872 first1873 compo1878 bogie carriage1880 chair-car1880 club car1893 corridor carriage1893 tourist-car1895 birdcage1900 dog box1905 corridor coach1911 vista-dome1945 Stolypin1970 1900 H. D. Lloyd Newest Eng. iv. 60 The ‘Bird-cage’ car on the New Zealand express trains, composed of compartments with an outside corridor up and down which the passengers can walk under shelter, but with a full view of the scenery. 1982 J. Frame To Is-land xviii. 147 During the Easter of 1936,..we went for our first family holiday, on the train to Rakaia, traveling in a first-class ‘bird-cage’ on our annual free ticket. < as lemmas |
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