bogie en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈbəʊ.ɡi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈboʊ.ɡi/ (General-American)
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Etymology
A dialectal word from Northern England of unknown origin which is unrelated to bogey (“hostile supernatural creature; terrifying thing, bugbear”).
Meanings
- (Northern-England) A low, hand-operated truck, generally with four wheels, used for transporting objects or for riding on as a toy; a trolley.
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(also, attributive, broadly) One of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle.
1878. Bogie Trucks for Railway Locomotives, &c.: [...] Fig. 1 is a cross section and Fig. 2 a section plan of a bogie. A curved casting a is fixed to the engine and a wrought-iron beam or beams b are connected to the bogie frames by links c fitted with or without springs d.
1883 April 13, “Abstracts of Specifications Published during the Week Ending November 24, 1883”, in W[illiam] H[enry] Maw, J[ames] Dredge [Jr.], editors, Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal, volume XXXVI, London: Offices for advertisements and publication, 35 & 36, Bedford Street, Strand, W.C., published 30 November 1883, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 507, column 2:The soil all along this portion of the route is so elastic and the line so straight and level that the train goes humming along without jar or vibration, and the sensation in these cars, with their six-wheeled bogies and well arranged springs, is more like what one imagines flying to be than a mere matter-of-fact railway journey.
1889, J[ames] A[rthur] Lees, W[alter] J. Clutterbuck, “The C.P.R. [Canadian Pacific Railway]”, in B.C. 1887: A Ramble in British Columbia, new edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 57–58:An empty train was by mistake sent into the rear of an ordinary train standing at the station Rathausbrücke. The two colliding car-ends were damaged and the bogie of the standing train was lifted off the supporting rail so that its wheels settled by the side of the rail. Neither train fell, however, and nobody was seriously hurt.
1908 May 1, “Miscellanea”, in W[illiam] H[enry] Maw, B. Alfred Raworth, editors, Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal, volume LXXXV, London: Offices for advertisements and publication, 35 & 36, Bedford Street, Strand, W.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 3:We then had to endure a four-hour-long change of bogies at Brest - from the Soviet 1520mm-wide gauge to the 1435mm Polish and West European - when our carriage, with passengers inside, was lifted off the track by giant railway jacks, giving us a brief and not entirely unpleasant feeling of levitation.
2026 January 21, Vitali Vitaliev, “By train to a New World”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 68:
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(broadly) A set of wheels attached to one of an aircraft's landing gear, or the structure connecting the wheels in one such set.
Although most A320s have two wheels on each of their main gear, a few built for the Indian market have four-wheel bogies, halving the amount of weight on each wheel and allowing the aircraft to use runways that couldn't withstand the ground pressure from a standard A320.
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(India, UK) A railway carriage.
Hard work is required from men and machines as I was to experience later when footplating Lambton No 5 on five bogies battling its way up Newtondale.
1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 415:The bogie coaches which he spoke of last year had been brought or were being brought into active service, but they had no further wagon stock available.
1917 October 12, “Company Meetings. [Assam Railways and Trading.]”, in The Near East: A Weekly Review of Oriental Politics, Literature, Finance, and Commerce, volume XIII, number 336, London: The Near East Editorial and Publishing Offices, →OCLC, page 479, column 3:Although we took our eight bogies along to Whitstable at 60 m.p.h., and made a clean start from there, after Herne Bay the engine primed badly on Blacksole Bank and nearly stopped before we got over the top. Then we ran like the wind across the marshes with half-regulator, 30 per cent cut-off, and the engine blowing off.
1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 220:[...] Ashoke was still reading at two-thirty in the morning, one of the few passengers on the train who was awake, when the locomotive engine and seven bogies derailed from the broad-gauge line. The first four bogies capsized into a depression alongside the track.
2003 September, Jhumpa Lahiri, chapter 1, in The Namesake, New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books, published 2004, →ISBN, page 17:
- (dated) A soapbox racing vehicle.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bogey | alternative | lexicographic | |
| bogies | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| bogy | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
non-bogie · bogie bolster wagon · motor bogie · rocker-bogie · Jacobs bogie
Synonyms
Translations (32)
tr boji (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · he חוגון (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · nn boggi (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · ru ваго́нная теле́жка (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · ca bogi (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · nb boggi (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · pl wózek (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · sv boggi (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · da bogie (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · cmn 轉向架 /转向架 (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · de Drehgestell (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · ro boghiu (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · es bogi (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · hu forgóváz (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · cs podvozek (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · pt bogia (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · cmn 臺車 /台车 (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · nb tralle (low, hand-operated truck used for transporting objects or riding on as a toy) · io bogio (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · it carrello (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · pt bogie (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · pt truque ferroviário (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · kk арбашық (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · ja 台車 (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · fr bogie (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · id bogie (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · nl draaistel (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · fr boggie (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · cs vozík (low, hand-operated truck used for transporting objects or riding on as a toy) · fi teli (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · eo boĝio (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi) · ko 대차 (structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi)