单词 | toast-rack |
释义 | toast-rackn. A contrivance for holding dry toast, keeping each piece on edge and separate. Also transferred, a vehicle, esp. a tram, having full-width seats and (usually) open sides; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > other tableware or items for table pewter1426 warnera1552 nef1567 pewtery1645 hollow-ware1682 equipage1683 flatware1686 napkin ring1686 pewterware1738 egg cup1773 dish-rim1774 butter cooler1784 dish-cross1785 argyll1789 toast-rack1801 centrepiece1836 table centrepiece1850 silverware1862 doily1864 table centre1865 potato ring1888 egg-cosy1894 sandwich flag1907 cheese board1916 Lazy Susan1917 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > tramcar > types of owl car1856 horse-car1864 bobtail car1875 bobtailed car1875 automobile1881 belt tram1894 toast-rack1905 short1914 1801 P. A. Nemnich Waaren-Lexikon ii. 687/1 Toast rack or waggon, ein Tohstgestell. 1807 Roberts Specif. Patent 3083 So constructing a toast rack or tray that it may be extended or contracted at pleasure. 1861 N. A. Woods Prince of Wales in Canada & U.S. 104 The chief..wore something like a beadwork toastrack on his head. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 30 May 4/2 A vehicle of the ‘toast-rack’ type familiar on the Continent, consisting simply of a platform with seats going transversely. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 77 Toastrack, one of the old-style footboard trams still used in Sydney. 1957 Railway Mag. June 427/2 There are now 24 bogie motor cars and 25 bogie trailers. Toastrack and saloon types exist in both categories; the former, as befits a holiday line, are in the majority. 1966 P. Mathers Trap 190 A tram now, it would be a toast-rack with ten or so compartments with the only physical intercommunication along the outside footboards, and the concertina doors. 1970 Railway Mag. Oct. 587/2 Only horse traction was used, and there were two four-wheel cars, a closed one for winter service, and an open ‘toast-rack’, used in the summer. 1976 Country Life 22 Jan. 191/4 Single-deck ‘toast~rack’ trams, so named because they closely resembled that table implement on wheels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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