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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
car·riage       [kar-ij; for 9 also kar-ee-ij] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.
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.
7.Also called carriage piece, horse. 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.
[Origin: 1150–1200; ME cariage < AF, ONF, equiv. to cari(er) to carry + -age -age]

—Synonyms 1. cart, car, wagon. 6. mien, comportment, demeanor, air.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
car·riage       (kār'ĭj)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, often of an elegant design.
  2. Chiefly British A railroad passenger car.
  3. A baby carriage.
  4. A wheeled support or frame for carrying a heavy object, such as a cannon.
  5. A moving part of a machine for holding or shifting another part: the carriage of a typewriter.
    1. The act or process of transporting or carrying.
    2. (kār'ē-ĭj) The cost of or the charge for transporting.
  7. The manner of holding and moving one's head and body; bearing. See Synonyms at posture.
  8. Archaic Management; administration.


[Middle English cariage, from Norman French, from Old North French carier, to carry; see carry.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
carriage 
1388, "act of carrying, means of conveyance," from Anglo-Fr. cariage "cart, carriage," from carier "to carry" (see carry). Specific sense of "horse-drawn, wheeled vehicle for hauling people" first attested 1706.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
carriage

noun
1. a railcar where passengers ride [syn: passenger car] 
2. a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses 
3. characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture" 
4. a machine part that carries something else 
5. a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy] 

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Carriage

Car"riage\, n. [OF. cariage luggage, carriage, chariage carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. carier, charier, F. charrier, to cart. See Carry.]

1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. [Obs.]

David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. --1. Sam. xvii. 22.

And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem. --Acts. xxi. 15.

2. The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.

Nine days employed in carriage. --Chapman.

3. The price or expense of carrying.

4. That which carries of conveys, as: (a) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort. (b) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage. (c) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part. (d) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.

5. The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

His gallant carriage all the rest did grace. --Stirling.

6. The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

The passage and whole carriage of this action. --Shak.

Carriage horse, a horse kept for drawing a carriage.

Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those who alight from vehicles at the door; -- sometimes erroneously called in the United States porte-coch[`e]re.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Carriage

In the Authorized Version this word is found as the rendering of many different words. In Judg. 18:21 it means valuables, wealth, or booty. In Isa. 46:1 (R.V., "the things that ye carried about") the word means a load for a beast of burden. In 1 Sam. 17:22 and Isa. 10:28 it is the rendering of a word ("stuff" in 1 Sam. 10:22) meaning implements, equipments, baggage. The phrase in Acts 21:15, "We took up our carriages," means properly, "We packed up our baggage," as in the Revised Version.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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