cariole

American  

[kar-ee-ohl] / ˈkær iˌoʊl /

Or carriole

noun

1. a small, open, two-wheeled vehicle.

2. a covered cart.

3. a light, open sleigh pulled by horses or dogs, especially one used in French Canada.

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cariole British  

/ ˈkærɪˌəʊl /

noun

1. a small open two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle

2. a covered cart

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Etymology

Origin of cariole

1760–70; < French carriole < Old Provençal carriola, equivalent to carri carriage (< Late Latin carrium, for Latin carrus; see car ¹) + -ola -ole ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cariole

At the slow stations he must wait till the neighborhood, for a distance of three or four miles perhaps, is searched for a horse—sometimes for both horse and cariole.

From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

The slightest pull at the reins would throw him upon his haunches, and cariole and all would go spinning over him into some horrible abyss.

From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

The mountain is snow-capped and the St. Lawrence is frozen several feet thick, making good roads for the shaggy Canadian pony and cariole, or heavy traineau with wooden runners.

From Famous Firesides of French Canada by Mary Wilson Alloway

The documents which had been preparing being now nearly finished, we sent for the cariole, &c. from Fort Norman.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin

So rapidly regaining his cariole, he vanished before any of the crowd had made up their minds what to do.

From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck