英语词汇“stepney wheel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. A spare wheel for a motor vehicle, comprising a ready-inflated tyre on a spokeless metal rim, which could be clamped temporarily over a punctured wheel. Also stepney wheel. Now Historical except in Bangladesh, India, and Malta, where = any spare wheel.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > spare wheel or tyre

stepney wheel1907

spare tyre1917

spare wheel1920

1907 Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 4/3 The popularity of the Stepney Wheel has never been more clearly demonstrated than at the Olympia Show.

1908 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 2) 113 The Stepney spare wheel.

1910 G. K. Chesterton Alarms & Discursions 179 Then he said, ‘And I left the Stepney behind.’

1911 Daily Chron. 5 Jan. 4/7 Wales claims the origin of the ‘stepney’, the spare wheel and tyre.

1914 Motor Cycle 19 Mar. 10 Insure yourself now against punctures by equipping your car with a Stepney.

1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 148/2 The Stepney was fixed in ten minutes.

1928 Evening News 7 Aug. 9/2 None of your detachable wheels, rims, or Stepneys!

1929 H. Nicolson Let. 22 July in J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson (1980) xvi. 376 [In Berlin he was like] a stepney wheel of a car that is seldom taken out of the garage.

1937 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 13) xi. 196 With the introduction of pneumatic tyres came the puncture, and soon the ‘Stepney’ appeared: a spare rim and tyre fitted with clamps.

1971 Listener 11 Nov. 653/1 After jacking up the car, one of them turned to me and said: ‘Have you a Stepney?’ ‘Yes, in the boot,’ I answered... It takes an old Edwardian like me to know that a Stepney was an attachable wheel-rim, which came in about 1907 and went out about ten years later. You wouldn't hear the term in England now, but in Malta it is the ordinary word for a spare wheel.

1973 Opinion (Bombay) July 31 It helps to have a few holes in the roof of the car and to go about without a Stepney.

1975 J. Day Bosch Bk. Motor Car 178 An early attempt to make puncture mending less troublesome was the Stepney spare wheel of T. M. and W. Davies in 1904.

1977 Navbharat Times (Bombay) 2 June (advt.) Yezdi stepney wheel complete with tyre, tube, hub and bearings.

1980 L. Lewis Private Life of Country House iii. 35 About 1920 we bought a secondhand T model Ford... In case of punctures there was a Stepney wheel to be clamped on to the rim to get you home.

单词	stepney wheel
释义	> as lemmas stepney wheel 1. A spare wheel for a motor vehicle, comprising a ready-inflated tyre on a spokeless metal rim, which could be clamped temporarily over a punctured wheel. Also stepney wheel. Now Historical except in Bangladesh, India, and Malta, where = any spare wheel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > spare wheel or tyre stepney wheel1907 spare tyre1917 spare wheel1920 1907 Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 4/3 The popularity of the Stepney Wheel has never been more clearly demonstrated than at the Olympia Show. 1908 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 2) 113 The Stepney spare wheel. 1910 G. K. Chesterton Alarms & Discursions 179 Then he said, ‘And I left the Stepney behind.’ 1911 Daily Chron. 5 Jan. 4/7 Wales claims the origin of the ‘stepney’, the spare wheel and tyre. 1914 Motor Cycle 19 Mar. 10 Insure yourself now against punctures by equipping your car with a Stepney. 1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 148/2 The Stepney was fixed in ten minutes. 1928 Evening News 7 Aug. 9/2 None of your detachable wheels, rims, or Stepneys! 1929 H. Nicolson Let. 22 July in J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson (1980) xvi. 376 [In Berlin he was like] a stepney wheel of a car that is seldom taken out of the garage. 1937 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 13) xi. 196 With the introduction of pneumatic tyres came the puncture, and soon the ‘Stepney’ appeared: a spare rim and tyre fitted with clamps. 1971 Listener 11 Nov. 653/1 After jacking up the car, one of them turned to me and said: ‘Have you a Stepney?’ ‘Yes, in the boot,’ I answered... It takes an old Edwardian like me to know that a Stepney was an attachable wheel-rim, which came in about 1907 and went out about ten years later. You wouldn't hear the term in England now, but in Malta it is the ordinary word for a spare wheel. 1973 Opinion (Bombay) July 31 It helps to have a few holes in the roof of the car and to go about without a Stepney. 1975 J. Day Bosch Bk. Motor Car 178 An early attempt to make puncture mending less troublesome was the Stepney spare wheel of T. M. and W. Davies in 1904. 1977 Navbharat Times (Bombay) 2 June (advt.) Yezdi stepney wheel complete with tyre, tube, hub and bearings. 1980 L. Lewis Private Life of Country House iii. 35 About 1920 we bought a secondhand T model Ford... In case of punctures there was a Stepney wheel to be clamped on to the rim to get you home. extracted from Stepneyn. < as lemmas
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