shayn.1
/ʃeɪ/, U.S. /ʃeɪ/ = chaise n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > strong, for travelling > chaise or post-chaise
post-chaise1699
chaise1709
shay1717
post-chay1757
chay1764
po-chay1813
Jack1816
1717 S. Sewall Diary 20 Sept. (1973) II. 861 The Governour went through Charlestown..carrying Mm Paul Dudley in his shay.
1735 in Corey Malden 666 Bought a shay £27 10s.
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 237 Or who'd swelter and stoop Over linen and soap, While each tax-cart and shay To the Fair jolts away?
1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 71 Some in shays, and others on horseback.
1867 O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel xiv. 166 It is n't everybody that can ride to heaven in a C-spring shay, as my poor husband used to say.
1873 Ld. Lytton in Lady B. Balfour Lett. (1906) I. 298 The Bois..was full of..one-horse shays.
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General attributive.
shay boy n.
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1840 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins xiv, in New Monthly Mag. He gives the coachman or shayboy twice as much as is usual.
shay cart n.
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1823 C. M. Westmacott Points of Misery 30 [She] puts him in a light shay cart.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 315 Cabs, hackney-coaches, ‘shay’ carts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
Shayn.2
/ʃeɪ/, U.S. /ʃeɪ/ North American.
Applied to a geared locomotive designed by Ephraim Shay in 1874 for hauling timber.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > used for heavy (freight) trains
Mogul1877
decapod1888
hog1888
Shay1894
1894 J. Dredge Rec. Transportation Exhibits at World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 308/1 (heading) The Shay Locomotive.
1894 J. Dredge Rec. Transportation Exhibits at World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 308/2 The Shay Locomotive Engine No. 75, on the Montana Union Railway, on December 6th, 1890, hauled a train of fifteen loaded cars up the Anaconda high line, a distance of 11/ 2 mile on a 31/ 2 per cent. grade..at a rate of speed equal to 4 miles per hour.
1936 ABC Brit. Columbia Lumber Trade Directory 74 Elk River Timber Co., Ltd...75 Miles of Track; 5 Locos; 4 Shays.
1942 R. L. Haig-Brown Timber 253 Shay, a geared locomotive, slow but powerful and adapted to heavy hauling. Shays of about 70 tons are commonly used in hauling logs from the landing to the mainline.
1953 Harmac News (Vancouver, Brit. Columbia) Oct. 8/1 A 42-ton Shay was hauling logs for Wiest logging in 1914.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 135 Shay, the most popular of the geared locomotives used in the woods. The several cylinders are upright on the engineer's side of the frame, and the boiler is offset to balance them. A propeller shaft driven by cranks runs along one side of the engine and is geared to the axles.
1974 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 July 3/1 The 45-ton Shay (named for designer Ephraim Shay) will be replaced by a 120-ton Baldwin diesel-electric locomotive.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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