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Teacher, teacher, ME! ME!

That one's way too easy. It's a handcar. One word, not two.

And the three letter word you were looking for was gig, not jig. Usually pronounced like jig except when it refers to a musician's spot job.



Thanks. I didn't know that.

Handcar -- a duller word than this cannot possibly be imagined -- is in my dictionary. But I do not have an entry for gig.

But while where one the subject of vehicles, does any one know what an Obeissante is?

In Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, the narrator Casaubon encounters one in the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, Paris. A google search yields up the same image of a
kind of steam bus (see above).

Can anyone tell me the meaning of this word; history of this vehicle?