Meaning

18 senses
  1. (childish, colloquial)A doll.

  2. A roughly cylindrical wooden object used as a base when molding pie crust.

  3. A contrivance for stirring:

    A disc with downward legs and a vertical handle, used for agitating laundry.

  4. A device turned on a vertical axis by a handle or a winch, giving a circular motion to ore being washed.

  5. A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.

  6. In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

  7. A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.

    та́чкаtáčka, теле́жкаteléžka, до́ллиdólli

  8. (proscribed, sometimes)Synonym of hand truck (an L-shaped box-moving handcart with handles at one end).

  9. A moving dolly; a small, flat, rectangular platform on wheels, made to be slipped under a piece of furniture or other load.

  10. An unpowered vehicle (trailer) designed for connection to a tractor unit, truck or prime mover vehicle, with strong traction power.

  11. A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

  12. A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.

    опера́торская теле́жкаoperátorskaja teléžka

    conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Dolly was a ewe.

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  2. Dollies have four wheels. The two-wheeled jobs are called hand trucks.

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  3. Ziri named his ewe Dolly.

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Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 2
small truck with a wide roller:
filming: camera cart:

Origin

From doll + -y, from the given name Dorothy, originally applied either to a woman or femal

From doll + -y, from the given name Dorothy, originally applied either to a woman or female pet or to a children's toy, and expanded to refer to various types of contrivances or devices. The Online Etymology Dictionary, while considering the reason for applying it to such devices unobvious, compares how the names jack, jenny and jimmy are also applied to devices.

From Hindi डाली (ḍālī).

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