1977 Grimsby Even. Tel. 14 May 9/2 (Advt. ),Pedigree *pushalong fur horse excellent condition, {pstlg}4.50.
1898 Encycl. Sport II. 168/2*Pushball was developed out of mere experiments into an organised game about the year 1895 by the Newtown Athletic Club near Boston U.S. A. The ball used is made after the same fashion as the ordinary round football used in the English Association game, but has a diameter of about 6 feet.
1895 Funk's Stand. Dict. ,*Push-bar, a bar that sustains a pushing stress.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 7 Feb. 8/1Pointing to the extra push-bar exits and elaborate fire appliances.
1898 Ibid. 16 Apr. 7/2A new *push-barred record of 679.
1956 Harper's Mag. May 20/2She threads her *pushbasket along the alleys of the super market.
1898 B. Gregory Side LightsConfl. Meth. 520In our all-including games, like *push-battle.
1906 Bazaar, Exch. & Mart 16 Nov. (Suppl. ) 2042/3Exchange ..for good make 25in *push bicycle and cash. [ motor-cycle]
1908 Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 9/5Spring forks, which are considered debatable points on a push bicycle, are now recognised as absolute essentials on the..motor cycle.
1913 ‘I. Hay’ Happy-go-lucky xiv. 180Luckily I had the old *push-bike with me, and I managed to find my way down here.
1914 C. Holme Lonely Plough xx. 236Strenuous figures with bare knees and flapping overcoats push-biked past them.
1918 S. P. B. Mais Schoolmaster's Diary xvi. 253,I ‘push-biked’ the eight miles into Lewes.
1920 Isis 3 Nov. 3/1 Self-advertisement, or the man who rides a push-bike with both hands in his trouser pockets.
1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird viii. 123Derek..thought of a push-bike... He didn't want to be followed.
1926 Punch 8 Dec. 643/1 Music, Greek Plays, ‘*push-biking’ tours—All figure in his pages.
1972 Guardian 22 Feb. 11/3 If you take to push-biking..you will need some pedal-pushers.
1906 Daily Chron. 10 Feb. 6/1Playing a kind of bagatelle or *push-board.
1928 P. C. Chambliss in J. Schoettle Sailing Craft 202The patent stern affords means of fixing davits by which bugeyes may hoist their motor yawls or *push boats.
1967 Guardian 17 June 9/6 The pushboat picks them up..loaded or unloaded. [ sc. barges]
1884 E. W. Nye Baled Hay 225A section-crew..riding down that mountain on a *push-car.
1922 Joyce Ulysses 240Edy..was rocking the chubby baby to and fro in the pushcar.
1893 E. King Joseph Zalmonah ix. 105Some hundreds of ‘*push-carts’ like Ben Zion's were ranged within the narrow limits of Hester Street.
1897 F. Moss Amer. Metropolis III. ix. 202The visitor may stand at one point and see without moving..sidewalk merchants and push-cart vendors.
1899 Morrow Bohem. Paris 224Street hawkers with their heavy push-carts.
1909 Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 5/4She ran into the..street, and there found the push-cart, and saw the man hurrying away with the baby wrapped up in a travelling rug.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C. ) 12 Oct. 16/3 (Advt. ),Child's wicker push-cart, price $5.
1931 J. T. Adams Epic ofAmer. xii. 346Many of the other ‘great’ bankers..had the souls of pushcart peddlers.
1973 Amer. Speech 1969 XLIV. 265All the level 3 stores operated on the supermarket plan with pushcarts and terminal checkout booths.
1952 A. Martinet in Word VIII. 11It may often be difficult to tell whether we have to do with a B→A→ chain, or drag-chain, or an A→C→ chain, or *push-chain.
1969 R. D. King Hist. Linguistics & GenerativeGram. viii. 194If one rejects the gradualness of phonological change..and the notion that language abhors merger, push chains are deprived of their major source of plausibility.
1972 M. L. Samuels LinguisticEvol. iii. 31If one phoneme shifts, others will also shift in such a way that the differentiation is preserved (‘push-chain mechanism’), while others again will automatically increase their area of possible realisation by moving into the vacated space (‘drag-chain mechanism’).
1977 Language LIII. 239 Graphemic change provides evidence for a push chain.
1921 Sunday at Home Feb. 257/2 Up the hill she struggled... She was throwing her weight against a small *push-chair with a carpet seat.
1963 Times 25 May 9/5 As the mothers come out of the shops they pop sweets into the mouths of the two-year-olds sitting in pushchairs.
1972 J. Wilson Hide & Seek i. 19She hesitated, wondering whether to pop Jamie in his pushchair and go after them.
1905 Daily Chron. 1 June 3/6Anyone who has tried it, knows that a motor-cycle is as comfortable as a ‘*push-cycle’ over the same piece of road, at double the speed.
1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings ii. 32He had the body on the floor of the tonneau and on top of it he had a push-cycle, which has left tarry marks on the cushions.
1915 W. H. L. Watson Adventures Despatch Rider v. 63We stopped and questioned a ‘civvy’ *push-cyclist.
1927 Daily Express 27 Dec. 3/7 A push-cyclist..writes to protest against being forced to show a red light behind.
1920 D. J. Knight in P. F. Warner et al. Cricket (newed. ) 28If the ball is not struck on the half-volley, but a little later, it becomes what is known as the *push drive, and is in fact the ordinary forward shot. [ sc. the drive]
1918 D. T. Hamilton Gages, Gaging & Inspection ii. 38*Push fits..are for shafts that are forced into a hole by hand and that would be free to rotate without seizing, but not free enough to rotate under anything but a very slow speed.
1960 Practical Wireless XXXVI. 330/1 A 2½in. length of steel knitting needle ground down to a push fit inside the nylon bearing.
1900 G. D. Hiscox Horseless Vehicles ii. 37The movement..was made by a *push-foot connection from a three-throw crank shaft.
1957 R. G. Collomb Dict. Mountaineering 122*Push Hold. (American.) A pressure hold.
1976 D. Clark Dread & Water v. 107Zoom lens showing handholds—push hold, jug-handle, fingers clenched on a small hold.
1875 Knight Dict. Mech. ,*Push-hole (Glass-making), a hole in the flattening-furnace for annealing and flattening plate-glass.
1948 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va. ) 22 July 11/1The statement that William and Mary is a *push-in for top honors in the Old Dominion is just a lot of wild talk. [ College]
1970 Sunday Tel. 9 Aug. 24/6The push-in, the latest addition to the sporting glossary, makes its international debut..today... The new rule..becomes operative for British clubs at the start of the season.
1976 Read & Walker Advanced Hockey for Women v. 119Occasionally the opportunity may arise to send the ball directly to the middle of the field from a push-in.
1976 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 7 Nov. 47/11 They then walk home—and are followed by the ‘push-in’ merchants, the teenage savages who push their victims into their apartments from behind, slam the door and then lace into them.
1979 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 Jan. 18/6 Push-ins, mugging at the door.
1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle (1940) xxx. 296,I was getting twenty-eight a week and my *push money extra.
1960 V. Packard Waste Makers (1961) xix. 231The spiff or PM is the ‘push money’ offered as a reward for each item of the brand sold.
1890 T. C. Chamberlin in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. I. 28.A glacier deposits material at its margin in three ways: (1) It pushes matter forward mechanically, ridging it at its edge, forming what may be termed *push moraines.
1913 Zeitsch. für Gletscherkunde VII. 310 Part of the glacier margin was bordered by a push moraine from 5 to 8 feet high.
1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphology xiii. 292Push moraines are a specialised form of end moraine caused by a readvance of an ice sheet thrusting till, or some similar deposit, up into low ridges.
1979 J. Rabassa et al. in C. Schlüchter Moraines & Varves 68/2In March 1977, the ice front had already advanced over the proximal part of the fluvioglacial plain.., bulldozing its upper sedimentary cover into a set of push-moraines.
1920 W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor i. 7The shrimp fishermen..used *push-nets in the channels at low tide.
1976 Weekend Echo (Liverpool) 4/5 Dec. 9/8 ( Advt. ),Shrimp push nets for sale, {pstlg}12.50.
1902 Engin. Rev. (N.Y. ) May 15/2The sections are united by malleable iron *push-nipples coated with copper, and fitting accurately reamed holes in the sections. [ of the boiler]
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 285/1Massage Bath Shower and Shampoo Set complete, with large rubber *push-on unions.
1974 K. Clark Another Part of Wood ii. 69The old push-on variety ..gave the executant much more control than the later one-piece model. [ of pianola]
1970 Britannica Bk. of Year 1969 798/3*Pushout, a student dropped from school for unsatisfactory performance.
1973 Times 17 Dec. 2 The growing number of girls who are becoming homeless are not ‘drop-outs’, as generally thought, but ‘push-outs’.
1974 Florida FL Reporter XIII. 43/2 The ‘push-out’ rate of minority students is a national disgrace.
1977 Design Engin. July 73/2They are easily installed by simply squeezing into punched or drilled holes in 1·5mm cold-rolled steel sheets, and resist pushout forces of 260lb.
1963 Times 25 Feb. 4/3 Their forwards..used the *push-pass far too often on a surface which demanded hard hitting.
1977 Time Out 28 Jan.–3 Feb. 6 ( Advt. ),Push pass. .. There are at least 26 familiar football terms in this puzzle.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 16/2Multiple disc-clutch, *push-pedals, foot-accelerator.
1908 Ibid. 19 Mar. 4/2The two push-pedals performing the usual functions of disconnecting the clutch and putting on the brake.
1872 B. Jerrold London xviii. 146Benches where they are playing *push-penny.
1975 Country Life 11 Dec. 1677/4, I am..looking for examples of the following regional inn sports: aunt sally (Oxfordshire)..push penny (Lincolnshire)..actually played in English pubs today.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 108/1 (Repeating Watch),P is the pendant-shank or *push-piece.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 132For setting the hands a push piece..is pressed with the thumb nail.
1964 English Studies XLV. 23 The pulpit is in the bows; a similar device at the stern has become known..as a *push-pit.
1976–7 Sea Spray ( N.Z. ) Dec./Jan. 90/1 (Advt. ),It does not get chipped or rattle against the pushpit.
1928 V. G. Childe MostAnc. East iii. 54A steep-ended scraper or *push-plane.
1977 G. Clark WorldPrehist. (ed. 3) v. 214Wood-working equipment, manifested most notably in heavy bifaces and picks and in high-backed push-planes.
1907 G. A. T. Middleton Mod. Buildings VI. xiv. 112/2The double bolts as supplied for swing doors are the proper pattern to use... They are actuated from the inside by a small *push plate.
1963 W. C. Huntington Building Construction (ed. 3) xv. 661Push plates or door pulls are provided on the closing stile as required.
1686 Plot Staffordsh. 115The turf..they cut in the Moorelands in the Spring time with an instrument call'd a *push-plow, being a sort of spade, shod somewhat in the form of an arrow.
1906 Daily Chron. 11 Aug. 5/5*Push-pole, and the inevitable negotiation of the greasy pole.
1971 Push-pole . [ see kilhig]
1977 Sat. Rev. 23 July 3/2 (Advt. ),The 200 can be ‘*push-processed’ to 400 speed... Dealer can sell you a kit, including directions for ‘push-processing’. [ sc. 200 a.s.a film]
1979 Amat. Photographer 10 Jan. 90/1 All these fast films can be push-processed to produce even higher speeds.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 4/2The inlet-valves are..placed immediately above the exhaust-valves, and actuated by rockers and vertical *push-rods.
1934 Jrnl. R.Aeronaut. Soc. XXXVIII. 191Push rod valve mechanism for air⁓cooled engines..has been almost universally adopted during the last few years.
1973 Times 18 Oct. 35/3 The Polski 125P saloon..has the same body as the old Fiat 125 and a 1500cc push rod engine.
1909 P. A. Vaile Modern Golf v. 84The *push-shot is a dead straight ball, one of the straightest when well played.
1925 Country Life 15 Aug. 244/2 The push shots or placing shots... You can steer and guide these strokes with tolerable accuracy.
1957 S. Moss In Track of Speed xiv. 182Mechanics rushed out and *push-started us.
1965 D. Lodge Brit. Mus. is falling Down vi. 107He prepared to push-start his scooter.
1973 Advocate-News (Barbados) 29 June 3/3 ( Advt. ),Maybe you have an idea. And all it needs is a push-start to get it off the ground.
1977 Daily Tel. 12 Jan. 10/4One of my minor objections to automatic transmissions is that they can't be push started.
1979 K. O'Hara Searchers of Dead viii. 80Owen..once gave me a push-start when my battery was flat.
1922 Woodwork Machinery Reg. in Statutory Rules & Orders (1923) 276A suitable *push-stick shall be kept available for use at the bench of every circular saw which is fed by hand, to enable the work to be carried on without unnecessary risk.
1947 J. Charlesworth Law of Negligence xviii. 388Failure to use a ‘push-stick’..may amount to contributory negligence.
1873 *Push stroke . [ see pushn. 1 1 b]
1884 W. Cook Billiards 64In order to play the push stroke successfully, it is necessary to hold the cue . [ etc.]
1901 Daily News 1 Feb. 8/7 When the Prince was holing a short put at the home green, he cautioned his Royal Highness against giving the ball a push stroke.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 31 May 3/1Drives between the off-side fielders, and push-strokes between the bowler and mid-on, and past mid-on.
1902 Daily Chron. 27 June 2/6To provide *push-tap valves to the several troughs in this borough.
1888 Athenæum 18 Feb. 217 The side pieces of a Derbyshire stile or ‘*push through’ in the churchyard wall.
1920 G. Burrard Notes on Sporting Rifles 68Greener's ‘push through’ is an excellent invention for all ultra small bores.
1970 Which? Aug. 237/2 Slip-over threading points are better than push-through points.
1979 D. Francis Whip Hand xvi. 195The push-through switch on a table lamp.
1955 Bull. Soc. Naval Architects & Marine Engineers Feb. 12/1Single-screw tugs have been *push-towing for many years.
1955 F. Marbury Push-Towing in Waves (MS. thesis,Mass. Inst. Technol. ) i. 1The standard river pushtow cannot operate in waves.
1964 Marine Engineering Log July 59/1 The economy and flexibility of push-tow operations are gaining favor with Japanese maritime interests.
1970 1st Internat. TugConf. 1969 272/1Petroleum barges could be push-towed.
Ibid. 362/1In 1957 the first real push-tow..appeared on the Rhine.
1973 Guardian 22 Jan. 6/5 Push-tow craft..are, basically, floating boxes which can carry 140 tons and be locked together in a procession of nine, operated by two tugs.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia III. 758/2These assemblies of unpowered and individually unmanned barges are known, somewhat illogically, as push tows.
1955 F. Marbury Push-Towing in Waves (MS. thesis,Mass. Inst. Technol. ) vi. 22The basic conclusion..is that as far as these tests extend *pushtowing in waves is feasible.
1959 G. Walker Traffic & Transport in Nigeria iii. 47‘Push-towing’ has now become the accepted practice. Power craft have two barges lashed to the forequarters, a third being pushed ahead.
1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C. ) 29 Mar. 40/5The tugs are intended for use in..push-towing of such barges in moderate sea conditions.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 36The *pushwork for setting the hands.
ORIGIN: Repr. push noun 1, verb.