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Two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used in battle
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chariot
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n. 1 a two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare 2 a light four-wheeled carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes
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A chariot is a type of carriage driven by a charioteer using primarily horses to provide rapid motive power. Chariots were used in militaries as transport or mobile archery platforms, for hunting or for racing, and as a conveniently fast way to travel for ...
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n. a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome
Usage examples of chariot.
It was prettily devised of Aesop that the fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.
He pointed vaguely to the afterpart of the chariot, his arm half submerged.
Chariot wheels and whipcracks, his father had once called them, when Aspar was very young.
As banquet-favors, he gave eunuchs, or four-horse chariots, or horses with saddles, or mules, or litters, or carriages, or a thousand aurei or a hundred pounds of silver.
Totha screamed in triumph and was on the point of leaping into his chariot to finish him when she choked, stood stiffly upright, her eyes glaring, and then clutched at the basketwork of the chariot.
He would have looked at home on a royal chariot, gripping the carved bonewood of a longbow, polished armor gleaming in the cold sunlight, contemplating the battlefields lay.
He knew that his ceboid flanks could not stand up to a chariot charge.
The scream, too, came from a fair owner, who was surrounded by clamorous carmen and city marshals, and who, in an unknown land, was afraid she might be put in a city compter, because the people in the city had destroyed her beautiful chariot.
Eurydice up next to her, Hades barked a command and the chariot lurched forward, whipped around in a tight circle and plunged back through the jagged opening in the earth.
The sons of Amhalghaidh went to Tara in twelve chariots, sicut in libris Patricii inventus, quod exirent in judicium tamen vii fratres de eis.
Minoan War Office, and refers to the equipment of the Chariot Brigade of the Knossian army.
Gazes not on the interlunar sea: He taught to rule, as life directs the limbs, The tempest-winged chariots of the Ocean, And the Celt knew the Indian.
Some old Army married quarters had been converted into accommodation for the naval party while the chariots, which had travelled from England in the belly of the big minelayer, were transferred to a small depot-ship with all the necessary facilities, and a fine machine shop for the artificers and torpedomen.
Horse beside his Chariot, directed the newest avatar to a steep-sided canyon, just below the battlements on the north side of the stronghold, opposite the plain.
Hardy Paphlagonians, working over him, hoisting him onto a chariot, bore him back to the sacred walls of Troy .