Carriage
WordNet
noun
(1) A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
(2) A vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
(3) A machine part that carries something else
(4) A railcar where passengers ride
(5) Characteristic way of bearing one's body
"Stood with good posture"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
- The carriage ride was very romantic.
- A railroad car drawn by a locomotive.
- A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing.
- His noble carriage concealed the heart of a knave.
- One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
- He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that [...] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
- The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
- (local to New England) A shopping cart.
- A baby stroller; a baby carriage.
See also
List of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
- araba
- barouche
- Berlin
- brougham
- booby
- brake
- cab
- calash
- caravan
- carriole
- carryall
- cart
- Catherine
- chaise
- clarence
- coach
- coachee
- Coburg
- coup
- croydon
- curricle
- dennet
- devil-carriage
- dobbin
- dormeuse
- double
- droshky
- family
- fiacre
- fly
- four-wheeler
- gharry
- gig
- Gladstone
- hackery
- hackney
- hansom
- hearse
- horse-box
- horse-fly
- hutch
- jaun
- Jersey
- landau
- noddy
- phaeton
- Pilentum
- post-chariot
- Rockaway
- rumbelow
- shigram
- sledge
- sociable