carriage

[ kar-ij; kar-ee-ij ]

noun

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

   Synonyms: wagon, car, cart

2. baby carriage.
3. British. a railway passenger coach.
4. a wheeled support, as for a cannon.
5. a movable part, as of a machine, designed for carrying something.
6. manner of carrying the head and body; bearing:

   the carriage of a soldier.

   Synonyms: air, demeanor, comportment, mien

7. Also called carriage piece, an inclined beam, as a string, supporting the steps of a stair.
8. the act of transporting; conveyance:

   the expenses of carriage.

9. the price or cost of transportation.
10. (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.
11. management; administration.

carriage

/ ˈkærɪdʒ /

noun

1. a railway coach for passengers
2. the manner in which a person holds and moves his head and body; bearing
3. a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for persons
4. the moving part of a machine that bears another part

   a lathe carriage

   a typewriter carriage

5. ˈkærɪdʒˈkærɪɪdʒ
   1. the act of conveying; carrying
   2. 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 History and Origins

Origin of carriage¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of carriage¹

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

Example Sentences

Snipers watched from rooftops and windows, and Lincoln had been guarded by infantry and cavalry on his carriage ride through the streets to the Capitol.

From Washington Post

Andrew Jackson started the trend of riding to the inauguration in a carriage with his successor, Martin Van Buren, and that has been pretty common throughout history after him.

From Washington Post

Yet when I close my eyes, I don’t see my dark hands clutching the carriage seat or holding a goblet of ratafia in the company of the gentry.

From Washington Post

Edward Valentine had his studio in a nearby carriage house, which after his death was relocated to the grounds of the museum.

From Washington Post

Cross-country ski the many miles of groomed carriage roads throughout the grounds.

From Outside Online

Going hands-free is just one of the perks of a place where the only form of transportation is by carriage, bike, or tractor.

From The Daily Beast

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.

From The Daily Beast

Mandelbaum responded by punching Frank in the nose and knocking him from the carriage.

From The Daily Beast

Meet Roger, the horse saved from slaughter by a carriage driver.

From The Daily Beast

He made his views on the carriage controversy known in a letter to a City Council member back in 2009.

From The Daily Beast

He replied that he had no objections, provided she did not encumber the carriage with bandboxes, which were his utter abhorrence.

From Project Gutenberg

A gentleman got out of a carriage before it stopped, and fell between the rail and the platform.

From Project Gutenberg

"She did not think so:" why should she have taken the trouble to look out of the carriage window at me as she said these words?

From Project Gutenberg

"God bless 'ee, Missy," cried the old man in the shrill cracked voice of age, as he pressed up to the carriage window.

From Project Gutenberg

Liszt and his titled friends travelled in a first class carriage by themselves.

From Project Gutenberg

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