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carriage

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car⋅riage

  [kar-ij; for 9 also kar-ee-ij]
–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.
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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.

baby carriage

 
–noun
a conveyance similar to an infant's crib set on four wheels and meant to be pushed.
Also called baby buggy, carriage.

Origin:
1865–70
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.
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car·riage   (kār'ĭj)   
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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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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Bible Dictionary

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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