Dollied vs Dallied - What's the difference?
dollied | dallied |
(dolly)
A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
(film) A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.
(children, colloquial) A child's name for a doll.
(cricket) A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch.
(cricket) To hit a dolly.
To move an object using a dolly.
(dally)
To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
* Calamy
* Barrow
To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (compare dalliance)
* Shakespeare
To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
* 2003 , Jameson Parker, An Accidental Cowboy , page 89:
Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in .
* 1947 - Bruce Kiskaddon, Rhymes and Ranches
As verbs the difference between dollied and dallied
is that dollied is (dolly) while dallied is (dally).dollied
English
Verb
(head)dolly
English
Noun
(dollies)- (Knight)
See also
* (specialized piece of film equipment) tracking shotVerb
Anagrams
*dallied
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *dally
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
- We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.
- We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
- Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
- The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch.
Synonyms
* dilly-dallyEtymology 2
Possibly from (etyl) "da le la vuelta ! " ("twist it around !") by law of Hobson-Jobson.Noun
(dallies)- What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally .