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单词 to run on wheels
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to run on wheels
a. intransitive. Esp. of a vehicle: to move by means of wheels turning in contact with the ground. In early use frequently more explicitly to run on wheels. Also figurative.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > go along on wheels
runc1350
roll1655
wheel1721
OE Rune Poem (transcript of lost MS) 69 [Ing] wæs ærest mid Eastdenum gesewen secgun, oþ he siððan est [read eft] ofer wæg gewat, wæn æfter ran.
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 69 (MED) Þe locustes..shullen haue..þe voice of corres charres þat ernen in batayle.
c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 102 (MED) Where renneþ þe chare of þe iiij cardinal vertues?
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 609 Ane cren thai haf gert dre vp hey Rynand on quhelis.
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. diiiiv Fortune with prestes runneth on wheles, So that some have after their heles, A scoare of yemen taule and stoute.
1582 R. Parsons First Bk. Christian Exercise i. v. 58 The noyse of their wynges lyke the noyse of manye chariottes running together.
1611 Bible (King James) Nahum ii. 4 The charets shall rage in the streets,..they shall seeme like torches, they shall runne like the lightnings. View more context for this quotation
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 345/2 A Shaloone..is a kind of Diminutive Coach, which runneth upon two Wheels, and holdeth two people.
1725 New Canting Dict. Rotan, a Coach, or Waggon, any thing that runs upon Wheels.
1772 Oxf. Mag. Sept. 117/2 It is calculated to take off all friction in wheel carriages, or in short every thing which runs on axles.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 551/2 A moveable carriage..running on lower side-rails.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 432 The wagon runs heavily.
1902 S. F. Edge & C. Jarrott in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xv. 338 The car was running on the iron rim [of the wheel].
1963 Billboard 16 Mar. 3/2 The vehicle ran off an embankment, struck a tree and came to a halt in a creek.
2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Nexis) 6 Jan. 3 Leo's pram ran into the road and she managed to stop it.
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