rulley

English

Alternative forms

• rully

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌli/

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Noun

rulley (plural rulleys)

1. (UK, Yorkshire) A four-wheeled horse- or tractor-drawn wagon, usually with low or non-existent sides, used for farm work, to carry goods and, on occasion, people. Fixed rear axle, turntable front axle.
   • 1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85:

     When a trolley was fully loaded it was moved to a narrow platform (called a butting strip) against which rulleys [f]or the various town delivery districts were backed, and the goods were transferred from the trolley to the rulleys.

   • 1982 [1980], J L Carr, A Month in the Country, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books/Harvester Press, →ISBN, page 97:

     We picked up the Ellerbecks at the Station — as Chapel Steward he'd been kept a seat at Mr Dowthwaite's right hand on the first rulley — then on to town where market day slowed us to a walk and, sometimes, a halt, as other wagons manoeuvred on the cobbled square.

Derived terms

• rulleyman

Anagrams

• Ullery