Hansom vs Growler - What's the difference?
hansom | growler |
(historical) A Hansom cab; a carriage
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(historical, slang) A cab with four wheels.
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* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 254:
A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
* 2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, p. 152:
* 2007 , Matthew Taylor, The Guardian , 24 November 2007 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/nov/24/antarctica.climatechange]:
(informal) A kind of jug used to carry beer (in current usage, a 2-liter or 64-ounce container with or without a handle; sometimes extended to similarly shaped 32-ounce jug, but not bottles).
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* 2002 , Louis M. Soletsky, 100 Years of Medicine , iUniverse, ISBN 9780595229253,
(dialect, UK, Yorkshire) A pork pie.
* 2008 , Christina McDermott, The Guardian , 22 August 2008 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2008/aug/22/foodanddrink]:
(British, slang) The vulva.
* 2007 , Cesca Martin, Agony Angel , Troubadour Publishing 2007, pp. 125-6:
As a proper noun hansom
is .As a noun growler is
a person, creature or thing that growls.hansom
English
Noun
(wikipedia) (en noun)citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom . […]”}}
citation, passage=The ghost of Selby stirred in him. His thoughts slipped back to the day when he had stolen from his well-appointed office to a waiting hansom'—there had still been a good many ' hansoms in those days—and driven quickly to the docks.}}
growler
English
Noun
(en noun)- The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham.
- Lew pulled his socks from a jacket pocket, grabbed his own shoes, and together they proceeded to the street and into a growler , and were off.
- A great ‘growler ’ iceberg was sighted this afternoon at a distance of approximately half a mile; the size of a large London house, more or less.
- As the cruise ship Explorer was picking its way through the Antarctic sea ice, it hit what experts believe was a "growler " - a huge iceberg shorn from the Antarctic ice shelf.
- ... their favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and their sea is a growler of lager and ale ...
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- This container was a round lidded tin with a handle and was colloquially called a growler'. to get daddy or mommy a ' growler of beer, which was, by the way, approximately a quart.
- Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler ’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.