checkstring

n. (要驾驶员停车的)号铃索

词形变化

checkstrings 复数 checkstrings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

词源

From check + string.

来源：wiktionary