| 单词 | sloven-wagon |
| 释义 | > as lemmassloven-wagon 5. Chiefly Canadian regional (Newfoundland and Maritime Provinces). A long, four-wheeled wagon or cart pulled by horses or oxen, having a low-slung bed and used for carrying heavy loads. Also attributive in sloven-wagon. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides roll-wainc1503 dray1581 troll1663 dray-cart1710 rulley1759 truck1774 trolley1823 gambo1836 lorry1838 platform car1843 platform wagon1850 trolley-cart1865 float1866 wherry?1881 camion1885 rolley1886 floater1888 sloven1889 1889 Amer. Notes & Queries 7 Dec. 71/2 In parts of New England a rough one-horse farm wagon is called a sloven. 1895 Dial. Notes 1 381 Sloven, a low truck wagon. 1907 Canad. Mag. 29 442/1 It is called a ‘sloven-waggon’ (doubtless for some good reason). 1941 H. MacLennan Barometer Rising 11 Grinding on the cobble~stones behind a pair of plunging Clydesdales came one of Halifax's most typical vehicles, a low-slung dray with a high driver's box, known as a sloven. 1964 Atlantic Advocate Aug. 79 As evening approached the horses were hitched to a long, low wagon, known in our country as a ‘sloven’, and the apples were hauled to the house. 2012 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 26 Apr. c8 There were few cars on the streets of Saint John, goods were drawn by horse and wagon or low-slung slovens..and the new rage was radio. < as lemmas |
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