carriage
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
carriage/ˈkarɪʤ/
▶noun
- 1 a four-wheeled passenger vehicle pulled by two or more horses.
■ a wheeled support for moving a heavy object such as a gun.
- 2 Brit. any of the separate vehicles of a passenger train.
- 3 Brit. the conveying of items or merchandise from one place to another.
- 4 a moving part of a machine that carries other parts into the required position.
- 5 a person's bearing or deportment.
'carriage' also found in these Oxford entries:
airfreight
- baby carriage
- backspace
- barouche
- bogie
- brake
- breaking cart
- brougham
- buckboard
- buffet
- cable car
- cabriolet
- caleche
- cantrail
- car
- carpenter
- carriage and pair
- carriage clock
- carriage dog
- carriage release
- carriage return
- carriage trade
- carriole
- carryall
- chaise
- charabanc
- chariot
- chassis
- clarence
- clerestory
- club car
- coach
- coachman
- compartment
- corridor
- couchette
- coupé
- curricle
- dashboard
- dicky
- dining car
- dos-à-dos
- droshky
- equipage
- escapement
- fiacre
- fly
- gestation
- gig
