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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Horsefly? Dipterous insect the female of which bites horses? That doesn’t sound good to travel in!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Only the OED seems to add “horse-fly n2” meaning “a covered carriage drawn by a horse.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+caroline.webb=newcastle.edu.au@lists.osu.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 29, 2024 7:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Carriage problems in the OED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">By looking up "The Compact Edition of the Dictionary of National Biography: Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically - Volume 1 Main DNB, Abbadie - O'Donnell",
I find fly with “horse-fly” as one of its definitions – if you look up the online<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">By looking up "The Compact Edition of the Dictionary of National Biography: Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically - Volume 1 Main DNB, Abbadie - O'Donnell", I find fly with
“horse-fly” as one of its definitions – if you look up the online OED under horse-fly you get the explanation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Not good enough!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Thursday, August 29, 2024 9:33 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> [Vwoolf] Carriage problems in the
OED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:white">I am somewhat handicapped these days, in that I can’t fully access the OED from home. I used to be able to, but now I can’t. I
only scratch the surface. I didn’t know that gig was short for whirligig, but there’s no problem in the OED if you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I am somewhat handicapped these days, in that I can’t fully access the OED from home. I used to be able to, but now I can’t. I only scratch the surface.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I didn’t know that gig was short for whirligig, but there’s no problem in the OED if you look up gig.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">However, try looking up fly. There is a verb, “to travel by fly”, which may lead you to the correct definition (I can’t get that far – I thought a fly was short for something:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">And if you want to know what a brake was, you first have to know that it’s short for a shooting-brake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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