| 单词 | short-bonneted |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshort-bonneted b. Of a motor vehicle: that has a bonnet (bonnet n. 12i). Now usually: (of a truck or lorry) designed with the engine under a bonnet rather than beneath the cab. Also with modifying word, as long-bonneted, short-bonneted, etc. ΚΠ 1902 Motor World 24 Apr. 105/1 Steam and even electricity are encroaching on the..gasolene vehicle..—a fact which speaks volumes for the popularity of the bonneted, rakish-looking vehicle. 1907 Automobile 21 Nov. 753/1 A long-bonneted Ford runabout. 1969 Proc. Instit. Mech. Engineers1968-9: Automobile Div. 145/2 Even by 1905 the bonneted car had become too well established to be challenged by the Lanchester chassis layout. 1982 D. N. Miller Illustr. Hist. Trucks & Buses 33 (caption) Short-bonneted trucks with a low centre of gravity. 2015 Northern Territory News (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Sept. 5 The Ural is a conventional bonneted machine, instead of the more space-efficient cab-over type. < as lemmas |
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