a movable part, as of a machine, designed for carrying something.
manner of carrying the head and body; bearing: the carriage of a soldier.
Also called carriage piece,horse. an inclined beam, as a string, supporting the steps of a stair.
the act of transporting; conveyance: the expenses of carriage.
the price or cost of transportation.
(in a typewriter) the moving part carrying the platen and its associated parts, usually set in motion to carry the paper across the point where the print element or type bars strike.
management; administration.
Origin of carriage
1150–1200;Middle Englishcariage < Anglo-French,Old North French, equivalent to cari(er) to carry + -age-age
late 14c., "act of carrying, means of conveyance; wheeled vehicles collectively," from Anglo-French and Old North French cariage "cart, carriage, action of transporting in a vehicle" (Old French charriage, Modern French charriage), from carier "to carry" (see carry (v.)). Meaning "individual wheeled vehicle" is c.1400; specific sense of "horse-drawn, wheeled vehicle for hauling people" first attested 1706; extended to railway cars by 1830. Meaning "way of carrying one's body" is 1590s. Carriage-house attested from 1761.
