carriage

[kar-ij; for 9 also kar-ee-ij]

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noun

a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.

baby carriage.

British. a railway passenger coach.

a wheeled support, as for a cannon.

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.

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Origin of carriage

1150–1200; Middle English cariage < Anglo-French, Old North French, equivalent to cari(er) to carry + -age -age

SYNONYMS FOR carriage

1. cart, car, wagon. 6. mien, comportment, demeanor, air.

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Going hands-free is just one of the perks of a place where the only form of transportation is by carriage, bike, or tractor.
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Or a horse and carriage, like the one driven a young man in a tweed suit and cap from yesteryear, as he gazed up at the stars.
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Mandelbaum responded by punching Frank in the nose and knocking him from the carriage.
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Meet Roger, the horse saved from slaughter by a carriage driver.
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He made his views on the carriage controversy known in a letter to a City Council member back in 2009.
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The carriage was stopped; Jane sprang out, and ran back to photograph three little girls in a cottage garden.
Mrs. Thompson|William Babington Maxwell
One mile from New Harmony, we were forced to alight from the carriage, as the horses would not draw us up a steep hill.
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The carriage started at once in the direction of the datcha des Iles.
The Secret of the Night|Gaston Leroux
Her husband covered his face with his handkerchief, and silently turned from the carriage.
A Russian Proprietor|Lyof N. Tolstoi
There's no virtue in riding behind a donkey if you can own a carriage.
The Root of Evil|Thomas Dixon

British Dictionary definitions for carriage

carriage

noun

British a railway coach for passengers

the manner in which a person holds and moves his head and body; bearing

a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for persons

the moving part of a machine that bears another parta typewriter carriage; a lathe carriage

(ˈkærɪdʒ, ˈkærɪɪdʒ)

the act of conveying; carrying
the charge made for conveying (esp in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid)

Word Origin for carriage

C14: from Old Northern French cariage, from carier to carry

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Word Origin and History for carriage

carriage

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.

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