Vectisian

comparative more Vectisian · superlative most Vectisian

1. rareOf or pertaining to the Isle of Wight.

   The first stretch of Vectesian railway to be encountered by most visitors from London belonged to none of the island railways.

   1947, Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, The Trains We Loved, Allen

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   We are not not going to discuss the causes which have induced the Vectesian agriculturalists to arrive at this conclusion;[…]

   1857 October 17, “Observation and Inference”, in The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, volume 3, number 55, E. Newman, page 17

   When did you last go to the IOW. Its been there donkeys years.¶ Probably what makes people scream when they use it and notice the signs of Vectisian maintenance,^([sic])

   2005 August 27, Tony Davison, “Re:back”, in uk.misc (Usenet)