carriage

[ kar-ij; for 9 also kar-ee-ij ]
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noun
  1. a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.

  1. British. a railway passenger coach.

  2. a wheeled support, as for a cannon.

  3. a movable part, as of a machine, designed for carrying something.

  4. manner of carrying the head and body; bearing: the carriage of a soldier.

  5. Also called carriage piece, horse. an inclined beam, as a string, supporting the steps of a stair.

  6. the act of transporting; conveyance: the expenses of carriage.

  7. the price or cost of transportation.

  8. (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.

  9. management; administration.

Origin of carriage

1
1150–1200; Middle English cariage<Anglo-French, Old North French, equivalent to cari(er) to carry + -age-age

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British Dictionary definitions for carriage

carriage

/ (ˈkærɪdʒ) /


noun
  1. British a railway coach for passengers

  2. the manner in which a person holds and moves his head and body; bearing

  1. a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for persons

  2. the moving part of a machine that bears another part: a typewriter carriage; a lathe carriage

  3. (ˈkærɪdʒ, ˈkærɪɪdʒ)

    • the act of conveying; carrying

    • the charge made for conveying (esp in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid)

Origin of carriage

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

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