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chariot

/ˈt͡ʃæɹi.ət/ noun B1
  1. A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare. · The warriors rode into battle on a horse-drawn chariot.
  2. A light (four-wheeled) carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes.
  3. The rook piece.

Plural chariots

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I was reading it at dinner hour, and I had just got to the chariot race when school went in.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 246 · C1
I cried bitterly, and asked Miss Stacy to forgive me and I’d never do such a thing again; and I offered to do penance by never so much as looking at Ben Hur for a whole week, not even to see how the chariot race turned out.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 246 · C1
With Dorothy hard at work, the Witch thought she would go into the courtyard and harness the Cowardly Lion like a horse; it would amuse her, she was sure, to make him draw her chariot whenever she wished to go to drive.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 86 · B2
A FLY sat on the axle-tree of a chariot, and addressing the Draught-Mule said, “How slow you are!
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 78 · B2

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