Crossword clues for autocar
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1895, from auto- + car.\n\nWhich is it to be? We observe that the London Times has lent the weight of its authority to the word "autocar," which it now prints without the significant inverted commas but with a hyphen, "auto-car." We believe that the vocable originated with a journal called the Hardwareman, which succeeded in obtaining the powerful support of the Engineer for its offspring. As for ourselves, being linguistic purists, we do not care for hybrid constructions
--"auto" is Greek, while "car" is Latin and Celtic. At the same time, such clumsy phrases as "horseless carriages," "mechanical road carriages," and "self-propelled vehicles" are not meeting with general favour. Why not therefore adopt the philogically sound "motor-car," which could be run into a single word, "motorcar"?
["The Electrical Engineer," Dec. 20, 1895]
Wikipedia
Autocar is a weekly British automobile magazine published by Haymarket Motoring Publications Ltd. It was first published in 1895 and refers to itself as "The World's oldest car magazine". There are now several international editions including China, India, New Zealand and South Africa.
Autocar is a weekly British automobile magazine (founded 1895).
Autocar may also refer to:
- Autocar Company, an American manufacturer of cab over engine vocational trucks and the oldest motor vehicle brand in the Western hemisphere
- Autocars Co., an Israeli car manufacturer
- Auster Autocar, a 1940s single-engined touring monoplane
- Automobile or autocar
- 1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, an experimental railcar built by the North Eastern Railway in 1903 using a Petrol Electric Engine
Usage examples of "autocar".
Sir Arthur called for his autocar and we hurried off to see the new phenomenon.
Sir Arthur turned on the headlamps of the autocar, and the beams pierced the dimness, casting eerie shadows and picking out the twisted branches of trees.
The engine of the autocar died, and with it the light from the headlamps.
The autocar lurched to a halt, and Holmes used the momentum to leap from the seat to the roadway.
The autocar will not misbehave, because our visitors have gone home for the moment.
Outside the Mining Complex Headquarters, he took a two-man autocar to the address Barsey had printed on the slip.
Philadelphia, at tide jet-copters landing, the runnels of autocars and ramps of footers coming and going, into and out of every high-rise building in sight.
Surface autocars, with their individual batteries and lights, were small oases in the absolute blackness of interstellar space.