carriage
/ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/ noun B1- The act of conveying; carrying.
- A means of conveyance.
- A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power. · The carriage ride was very romantic.
- The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head. · The runner has a very low arm carriage.
- The part of a typewriter supporting the paper, the part of a machine tool such as a lathe that guides the bit as it cuts or otherwise manipulates the workpiece.
- A shopping cart.
- A gun carriage.
- The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and Carriage Paid To).
Plural carriages
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Besides, you must have something on the panels of your carriage, to escape being searched by the custom-house officers.
A carriage waited at the door, the coachman was on the box, and a police officer sat beside him.
“Is this carriage for me?” said Dantès.
Dantès was about to speak; but feeling himself urged forward, and having neither the power nor the intention to resist, he mounted the steps, and was in an instant seated inside between two gendarmes; the two others took their places opposite, and the carriage rolled heavily over the stones.
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