[Vwoolf] Carriage problems in the OED

[Stuart N. Clarke]

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 look up gig.

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: see brake below).

And if you want to know what a brake was, you first have to know that it’s short for a shooting-brake.

Stuart
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