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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.

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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.

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

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

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Example Sentences

But when a pumpkin-shaped carriage with a crown on top pulled by two white horses clippity-clopped into the driveway.

The arrival of the horseless carriage was welcomed on many counts.

Now, the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of a carriage boy who learned the secret vows to find the treasure.

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But when a pumpkin-shaped carriage with a crown on top pulled by two white horses clippity-clopped into the driveway.

The arrival of the horseless carriage was welcomed on many counts.

Now, the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of a carriage boy who learned the secret vows to find the treasure.

Secondly it explains that miss carriage is less luckily also a reason why more procreation occurs.

There is a red farmhouse in the backgoundmany trees and a bridge with horsedrawn carriage crossing.

It would seem that putting a robot onto a bike would be a pointless exercise akin to putting gas-powered horses before a carriage.

But one reason the horseless carriage appeared was because of the liabilities of the horse.

The subject of the study is challenged with thought experiments involving a runaway railway trolley or train carriage.

Her luggage is tucked under the carriage in front of her.

All these organic practices are putting the carriage before the horse.

It was a horse carriage modified with two electric motors running the chain drive that moved the rear wheels.

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My seat was in the same carriage as the bar, and it seemed a waste.

Since it is a long walk you can ether take a carriage ride or a donkey, or horse, or walk on foot.

The legend is that the first car race happened the first time one horseless carriage met another on the road.

Of the three resident artists invited to use the carriage house.

Both countries are horses pulling the world carriage of growth and cooperation will take everyone a lot farther.

There is reason to believe that the pedicab ban may be driven by resentment from horse-drawn carriage owners.

We can also eliminate black swans by reverting to an agrarian economy where the only mode of transport is a horse and carriage.

The inventor created a carriage system for off the shelf.

On entering a railway carriage be sure to shake hands with all those present.

We begin the demo by riding a horse carriage in first person down a trail.

And the woman who comes around with the refreshment cart bows on entering the carriage and on leaving.

He didn't want to spend money adding a rack rail, so he experimented with a smooth-wheeled test carriage on smooth-wheeled rails.

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World English Dictionary

carriage (ˈkærɪdʒ)

—n
1.	(Brit) 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 typewriter carriage; a lathe carriage
5.	a. the act of conveying; carrying
	b. the charge made for conveying (esp in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid)

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

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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.

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Carriage definition

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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