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checkstring

noun

Etymology

From check + string.

  1. derived from *strengʰ-✻ — “rope, cord, strand; to tighten”
  2. inherited from *strangiz✻ — “string”
  3. inherited from *strangi✻
  4. inherited from strenġ
  5. inherited from string
  6. compounded as checkstring — “check + string”

Definitions

  1. A cord used by a passenger in a carriage to signal to the driver to slow down or go…

    A cord used by a passenger in a carriage to signal to the driver to slow down or go faster.

    • 1864,, William Stephens Hayward, Revelations of a Lady Detective, short story "Incognito", George Vickers, Strand I pulled the check-string, and gave him [the coachdriver] his instructions.
    • Mrs Hurstpierpoint - the dowager of the gleaming brows - leaned forward all at once in the carriage and pulled the checkstring attached to her footman's arm.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for checkstring. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA