Crossword clues for cariole
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cariole \Car"i*ole\, n. [F. carriole, dim. fr. L. carrus. See Car, and Carryall.]
A small, light, open one-horse carriage.
A covered cart.
A kind of calash. See Carryall.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small, light, open one-horse carriage. 2 A covered cart. 3 A kind of calash. 4 (context Canada historical English) A sleigh drawn by horses, with seats for a driver and possibly passengers. 5 (context Canada historical English) A toboggan drawn by dogs, with a passenger or cargo compartment enclosed by skins or fabric, and a small platform at the rear.
Wikipedia
A cariole (also spelled carriole) was a type of carriage used in the 19th century. It was a light, small, two- or four-wheeled vehicle, open or covered, drawn by a single horse. The term is also used for a light covered cart or a dog-drawn toboggan. The name is French, derived from the Latin carrus, vehicle.
Usage examples of "cariole".
Belmont embraced the old man on the cheek, stooped to imprint a kiss on the forehead of the sleeping child, rushed out of the cabin, threw himself into his cariole and drove away.
The little path leading to it from the main road was unbeaten either by trace of cariole or web of snow-shoe, but her horse broke through it easily enough, and pulled up in front of the hut almost before it was seen.
When I saw your cariole at the door, I was not at all surprised, but I did not tell the Captain of it.
Almost every resident in the country has a carriage they call a carryall, which name I suspect to be a corruption of the cariole so often mentioned in the pretty Canadian story of Emily Montagu.
He was therefore obliged to content himself with a wretched cariole, and in this equipage, about four in the morning, he reached Froidmanteau, about four leagues from Paris.
Twenty kilometers would make a long ride back, and we would not return to Etcheverria until the small hours of the morning, but Katya was as excited as a child at the prospect of being up late into the night and riding in an open cariole under the brilliant midnight stars of that perfect summer.
The cariole used by the traders is merely a covering of leather for the lower part of the body, affixed to the common sledge, which is painted and ornamented according to the taste of the proprietor.
The officer was thinking that he had better put both horse and cariole up for the winter.
Jessie got into the cariole and was bundled up to the tip of the nose with buffalo robes, the capote of her own fur being drawn over the head and face.
Just a week from the time he had been wounded, McRae put him on the cariole and took him to town over the hard crust of the snow.
Gayly dressed voyageurs and trappers, singing old river songs that had been handed down to them from their fathers, unharnessed the dogs and dragged the cariole into town.
Notwithstanding we thus restricted ourselves, and even loaded the carioles with part of the luggage, instead of embarking in them ourselves, we did not set out without considerable grumbling from the voyagers of both Companies, respecting the overlading of their dogs.
Cumberland, as we had light carioles, which enabled us to ride nearly the whole day, warmly covered up with a buffalo robe.
Back and I, our carioles were driven to his post, and we experienced the kindest reception.
Besides the maskers, they stared at that procession -- peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps, -- of vehicles of every description, citadines, tapissieres, carioles, cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were.