If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in thepark, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
1994, Robert Ferro,The Blue Star:
I roamed the streets andparks, as far removed from the idea of art and pretense as I could take myself, discovering there the kind of truth I was supposed to be setting down on paper…
An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
(US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
1878,The San Francisco Western Lancet. a Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, volume 7, number 3:
The mountain region thus limited consists of extensive and often level-floored valleys, sometimes many miles broad, and elevated 4,000 to 5,000 feet above the sea, called "parks" in local topography, which are interposed between innumerable rocky mountain ridges ....
1895, Whitman Cross, Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose,Geology and Mining Industries of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado[1], page54:
HighPark is a depression of 10 or 12 square miles in extent[…] at a general elevation of 7,500 feet. Its smooth floor is partly due to volcanic tuff of the western volcanic area, but chielfly to a find lake-bed deposit of yellowish sandstone....
The so-calledpark is a very broad, open valley,between the Sangre de Cristo range on the east, and the volcanic San Juan and Conejos ranges on the west
1911, Edward W. Harnden, “A Western Mountaineering Summer”, inAppalachia, volume XII, number 3:
...the ridges flatten and, higher up, before reaching the upper snow-fields of the mountain, broaden out into high plateaus, the beautiful so-calledparks or meadows.
1975, Frits Van der Leeden, Lawrence A. Cerrillo, David William Miller,Ground-water pollution problems in the Northwestern United States[3]:
Several structural basins, so-called "parks" within the crystalline rocks, are underlain by alluvial and terrace deposits, and in some cases, by Tertiary sediments.
An area used for specific purposes.
An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles,matériel or stores.
a wagonpark; an artillerypark
A partially enclosedbasin in whichoysters are grown.
An areazoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solarparks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
An area on which a sporting match is played;(soccer) apitch.
But because of their dominance in the middle of thepark and the sheer volume of chances, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce must have been staggered and sickened in equal measure when the visitors took the lead five minutes after the break.
Once they′d entered the floors of parking spaces, James found apark relatively easily, but Mark had difficulty, and only a swift sprint allowed him to catch up as James walked through the throngs of people in the casino with the determination of a man who didn′t want to be delayed.
2011, Antonia Magee,The Property Diaries: A Story of Buying a House, Finding a Man and Making a Home … All on a Single Income!, John Wiley & Sons Australia,unnumbered page,
We finally found apark and walked a few blocks to the building.
O, negligent and heedless discipline! How are wepark'd and bounded in a pale, A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
"What did you do after that?" he asked. - "Wentparking over at Silver Lake," replied Betty without hesitation. "Why?" - "I just wondered. Have fun?" "As a matter of fact, I did. Marty's a swell dancer." "That's not what I meant." "What did you mean?" - "I mean after.Parking." - "Yes I did[…]"
1968, “People vs. Hawkins”, inRecords & Briefs New York State Appellate Division, page861:
A. Well, I had heard that it was used forparking place, but I never wentparking there. Q. Excuse me? A. I had heard that it had been used for aparking place, but I had never goneparking there. Q. When you say “Parking place,” what do you mean? A. With a guy and a girl.
1996, Joseph Tropiano, Stanley Tucci,Big Night: A Novel with Recipes, page37:
The Phyllis and me go "parking." This is a very American thing to me, this "parking,” but Phyllis says that this is what couples in this country do when they are dating. We can't go to her house because her parents are there which is okay with me. / We areparking on a quiet street and we get in the backseat of my car. We begin to kiss and I start to feel her body.
2001, Tamyra Horst,Ratty Bathrobes, Cranky Kids, and Other Romantic Moments, page47:
Tim and I never wentparking when we were dating, but now that we've been married, it's been a fun date once in a while. (OK, we never actually leave the driveway, but the car was still parked.)
They wereparking out near the hills. It's a popular spot for submarine races. They went for a little moonlit stroll. I'm sure they had nightmares after what they saw. Mary Alice was hanging from a tree by her bare feet. Naked.
2008, Tim McLoughlin, Thomas Adcock,Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth:
They had gone to see the Robert De Niro/Liza Minnelli flick,New York, New York, before driving back to Bensonhurst andparking on a quiet street. As they kissed, Berkowitz opened fire
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Borg, Alexander (2004)A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies;I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill,page156
park inBárczi, Géza andLászló Országh.A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.:ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867
