GENERAL ROAD SLANG AND TERMS. 



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Skid or slipper 



To unskid . 

 The brake . 



To lock or chain a 

 wheel, 



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Splinter or wheel bar . 

 Roller bolts 



Main bar 



Swing or swingle bars . 



Three feet of tin . 

 A tool, a crop, the "1 

 polished yew J 



The docker . 



Points . 



The cap and thumb 



ferule 

 A case 



A sack wanting . 

 Quarters and false 



quarters 

 Pushing ground, ora") 



long fall of ground, 



or falling ground 

 Collar work 

 Feather-edging it 



An iron with flanges retained by a chain 

 from the perch or axle, which, fitting 

 under the hind wheel prevents its re- 

 volving, and so locks the wheel. 



To take this off. 



An apparatus which by pressure against 

 the tire of the wheel retards the 

 motion of the coach : invented by 

 Mr. Tongue. 



Either with skid or a chain or both ; the 

 latter is used hooked round the felly or 

 the spoke of the wheel. 



From which the wheelers pull. 



On the splinter bar, and on which the 

 wheeler's traces are fastened. 



Hangs on to the pole head. 



From which the leaders' four traces pull. 

 These hang from each end of the 

 main bar. 



The regulation coach horn. 



A whip. 



A short whip kept handy by the ' smock- 

 frock ' and low sort. 



Pieces of ready knotted whipcord for 

 the whip. 



Of whip ; introduced by Sir Henry 



Peyton. 

 An upset or smash. 

 After a case. 



Ruts, and very deep ruts. 



A long hill in your favour. 



Uphill work. 



Driving near to anything. 



