单词 | box seat |
释义 | box seatn. 1. The driver's seat on the box of a horse-drawn coach or carriage (see box n.2 2e). Also in extended use with reference to other vehicles. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > seat > driver's seat coach-coffer1607 box1625 coach-box1651 box seat1771 driving box1778 dicky1801 dicky box1801 cab box1840 1771 Public Ledger 25 Sept. A decent and genteel Chariot for the use of Mr Wilkes, who, soon after this, went and desired the inside might be lined, and the box-seat covered with blue Velvet. 1838 Osborne's Guide to Grand Junction Railway 107 I will suppose you mounted on the box seat. 1849 T. De Quincey Eng. Mail-coach in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 488/2 The public took to bribing, giving fees to horse-keepers, &c., who hired out their persons as warming-pans on the box-seat. 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green xii. 116 Mr. Verdant Green tipped for the box-seat. 1914 Lichfield Mercury 4 Sept. 6/6 I was on the box seat of a char-a-banc full of officers. 2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Feb. (Final ed.) d4/1 All the driver can do from the box seat is use a combination of reins, a whip and, most important, her voice. 2. A seat in a box at a theatre or sporting venue. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] > accommodation for spectators scaffold1470 scaffolding1537 stand1615 pergolaa1641 box seat1779 spectatory1829 ringside1849 box1860 ring-seat1889 ringside seat1897 terracing1902 terrace1950 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > seat or place > types of seat pigeonhole1732 box seat1779 stall1828 orchestra seat1843 orchestra stall1849 fauteuil1859 sofa stall1862 stall seat1920 house seat1927 riser1945 1779 Gen. Advertiser & Morning Intelligencer 7 July The sixpenny gallery is the best place in the house; the extra money given for box seats, &c. would be better disposed of to poor families. 1850 Life & Genius Jenny Lind 30/1 Men came out of the box office..looking with complacency at their tickets and envied by their less fortunate neighbors, who could not get in to pay their several thirty shillings for as many box seats. 1937 M. Levin Old Bunch i. ii. 70 Their heads would all turn following him as he marched out, taking the afternoon off at his box seat at Cubs' Park, or at his golf club. 2019 Washingtonpost.com (Nexis) 15 Oct. c3 There were box seats for the Yankees and the opera, private jets, Cuban cigars. Phrases Originally Australian and New Zealand. in the box seat (also on the box seat): (in early use) in a position of control; (now usually) in an advantageous or dominant position. Cf. in the driving seat. ΚΠ 1917 Kalgoorlie (W. Austral.) Miner 15 Feb. 4/6 I feel confident the differences with the organisations outside would have soon been patched up, and it would not have been long before Mr. Hughes would have been back in the box-seat. 1941 Kiama Reporter & Illawarra Jrnl. (New S. Wales) 1 Oct. 4/3 All these means..would immediately place the farmers on the box seat to dictate to the Governments and demand their immediate rights for equal justice. 1985 Telegraph (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Aug. Suddenly Australia finds itself in the box seat to retain the upper hand in the Ashes series. 2020 Morning Bull. (Rockhampton, Queensland) (Nexis) 19 Mar. 4 Livingstone Shire is in the box seat to secure almost $15 million funding for road projects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1771 |
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