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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
carriage
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a carriage clockBritish English (= a clock inside a glass case with a handle on top)
baby carriage
carriage clock
gun carriage
hackney carriage
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
main
▪ The main lace carriage is on the right and the lace carriage is on the left.
▪ That is all it does, once the stitches have been transferred, the main carriage will knit the row.
▪ The main carriage is free again and can knit two more rows.
▪ The main carriage operates from the right-hand edge and the lace carriage from the left-hand edge.
▪ That is, you have to imitate the main carriage knitting at Main Tension plus 4.
▪ The curved arrows refer to the main carriage and the straight arrows to the lace carriage.
▪ The numbers give the number of plain rows to work with the main carriage.
▪ The main and ribber carriages are then placed at the end of the needlebed.
open
▪ Developed for carrying coal and agricultural produce a passenger service was rapidly initiated using wagons, open carriages and converted stage coaches.
▪ We were rescued by Truc who had again been trying to catch up on his sleep farther down the open carriage.
▪ The father then flung the contents of the hat out of the open carriage window.
▪ Harry boarded it and the man followed, selecting a seat several rows distant but facing Harry down the open carriage.
■ NOUN
baby
▪ Two women tore the nylons I was wearing - really good ones - another dragged a baby carriage across my ninety-dollar shoes.
▪ A baby carriage was overturned, and a heavy rain of black ash descended for a long while afterward.
▪ Death raced downstairs and out the front door to look in the baby carriage under the cherry tree.
▪ Now she is walking toward him, half a block away, pushing a baby carriage.
▪ A charred baby carriage still stood on the altar steps, exactly where it had been found after the massacre.
clock
▪ In the silence she heard the ticking of the carriage clock.
▪ He glanced at the carriage clock on the polished rosewood desk.
▪ When they left she found an antique carriage clock in the hallway missing and also some jewellery.
▪ As Ashi dressed swiftly her eyes were drawn back to the carriage clock.
▪ I'd take carriage clocks and videos.
door
▪ The inquest jury was only able to say John Newton died accidentally by falling through a carriage door.
▪ He had jumped down to open the carriage door for her and Charlotte and the child made to get in.
▪ And that was the moment Nora chose to open the carriage door.
garter
▪ If you have been meaning to knit with the garter carriage, why not try something very simple?
▪ Knitting as much as possible with the garter carriage is not always the quickest way to complete a garment.
▪ One of the problems for garter carriage owners is that this is no longer possible.
▪ When allocating time for the garter carriage, first decide whether it is possible to leave it knitting all night.
▪ Diane is also organising an extra one day course on the garter carriage in the autumn - phone for date and details.
▪ I like them particularly for Chunky machines which of course do not have a garter carriage.
▪ The second way is with my wonderful garter carriage.
gun
▪ Other patches revealed supply columns, horsedrawn wagons, ambulance units, strings of gun carriages.
▪ Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.
lace
▪ You might imagine that returning the lace carriage to the left will affect the previous transference, but this is not so.
▪ You will then be supplied with a lace carriage tuned to that machine.
▪ The lace carriage, for transfer lace.
▪ Knit two rows as shown by the curved arrow then select the needles and move the lace carriage to the right.
▪ Now that punchcards exist it is quicker and less troublesome to let your lace carriage transfer the stitch for you.
▪ The main lace carriage is on the right and the lace carriage is on the left.
▪ Slide the lace carriage over to the right.
railway
▪ It was in the railway carriage as Earle had been coming back from the late night rally in the North West.
▪ Leadburn Inn Dine in splendour in a beautifully converted railway carriage.
▪ Miranda and Angus sat in a velvet-lined, crimson booth that reminded her of an old-fashioned railway carriage.
▪ But I am old-fashioned enough to dislike hearing it flung about in railway carriages by mixed school parties.
▪ He gave a slight sardonic grunt, remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt.
▪ Later on some old railway carriages situated on the farm were also used.
▪ The passenger in the railway carriage would drop his head into his newspaper and avert his eyes from the window.
▪ In 1866 he emigrated to Philadelphia, where he painted railway carriages in the workshops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
return
▪ This could, for example, be your address complete with tab and carriage return settings, or a frequently used sentence.
▪ The file will be stored on disk line by line, with a carriage return after each line.
transfer
▪ At the front of the rib transfer carriage there are some metal prongs.
▪ Remember to knit a loose row first before using the transfer carriage.
▪ I've had my rib transfer carriage about nine years and I've only just discovered that!
▪ The rib transfer carriage is lowered on to the needlebed to the right of the knitting.
▪ There are three points to watch as you use the rib transfer carriage.
window
▪ They pushed and shoved, reaching through the carriage windows to reserve places by laying their scarves along the bench.
▪ And the fabulous Brecon Beacons National Park flows past every single carriage window.
▪ It also warned against thieves at stations and advised that possessions should not be left near carriage windows.
▪ It is always a thrilling experience to make the journey with face pressed against the carriage window.
▪ The father then flung the contents of the hat out of the open carriage window.
▪ Being Carrie she stared crossly out of the carriage window at the big mountain on the far side of the valley.
■ VERB
drive
▪ I drove home in the carriage with Martha and Lisa.
▪ Nahum Morey rarely drove in his carriage up to London now that the railway had come to Chertsey.
knit
▪ If you have been meaning to knit with the garter carriage, why not try something very simple?
▪ To make the needles knit, the carriage must be set as for stocking stitch.
leave
▪ It also warned against thieves at stations and advised that possessions should not be left near carriage windows.
▪ She left the carriage and came into Marlott on foot.
move
▪ Knit two rows as shown by the curved arrow then select the needles and move the lace carriage to the right.
▪ Straight arrows show in which direction to move the lace carriage.
▪ Complete the lace message - pull the selected lever and move the lace carriage to the right.
▪ Select the needles and move the lace carriage to the left, as shown by the straight arrow and knit two rows.
▪ The manual suggests that you move the carriage as if ironing and this is a very apt description.
▪ If you try to move the carriage too lightly or too quickly you might not transfer the stitches firmly enough.
▪ As before this simply tells you in which direction to move the lace carriage to transfer the selected stitches.
ride
▪ They are all criminals, of course, who ride in the Stolypin carriages from Pot'ma on the way to Barashevo.
set
▪ Because the front bed is now the main bed, the main tension is set on the front carriage.
▪ Finally, set both carriages to knit and using tension 2, knit the rib.
▪ So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in.
▪ Now set the back carriage to slip, by pressing the O button.
use
▪ Developed for carrying coal and agricultural produce a passenger service was rapidly initiated using wagons, open carriages and converted stage coaches.
▪ Remember to knit a loose row first before using the transfer carriage.
▪ You have authority to use two government carriages to bring the books for me to see.
▪ There are three points to watch as you use the rib transfer carriage.
▪ So you can't use a punchcard carriage on an electronic machine.
▪ The Royal visit to Edinburgh in 1953 was conducted almost entirely using carriages from the collection.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both lights on the other side of the carriage work, so I change seats.
▪ Mutual anger surmounts mutual embarrassment through the rest of the long dark carriage ride.
▪ The passenger wagons were not going into town for another half hour, so I hired a carriage and went in myself.
▪ They went into town in a borrowed carriage.
▪ Two plastic rounded handles are screwed to each side of the motor carriage, and serve to control the plunge action.
▪ Two women tore the nylons I was wearing - really good ones - another dragged a baby carriage across my ninety-dollar shoes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carriage

Carriage \Car"riage\, n. [OF. cariage luggage, carriage, chariage carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. carier, charier, F. charrier, to cart. See Carry.]

  1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. [Obs.]

    David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage.
    --1. Sam. xvii. 2

  2. And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem.
    --Acts. xxi. 15.

    2. The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.

    Nine days employed in carriage.
    --Chapman.

  3. The price or expense of carrying.

  4. That which carries of conveys, as:

    1. A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.

    2. A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.

    3. A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.

    4. A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.

  5. The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

    His gallant carriage all the rest did grace.
    --Stirling.

  6. The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

    The passage and whole carriage of this action.
    --Shak.

    Carriage horse, a horse kept for drawing a carriage.

    Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those who alight from vehicles at the door; -- sometimes erroneously called in the United States porte-coch[`e]re.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
carriage

late 14c., "act of carrying, means of conveyance; wheeled vehicles collectively," from Anglo-French and Old North French cariage "cart, carriage, action of transporting in a vehicle" (Old French charriage, Modern French charriage), from carier "to carry" (see carry (v.)). Meaning "individual wheeled vehicle" is c.1400; specific sense of "horse-drawn, wheeled vehicle for hauling people" first attested 1706; extended to railway cars by 1830. Meaning "way of carrying one's body" is 1590s. Carriage-house attested from 1761.

Wiktionary
carriage

a. Related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power. n. 1 The act of conveying; carrying. 2 Means of conveyance. 3 A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power. 4 (context British English) A rail car, ''esp.'' designed for the conveyance of passengers. 5 (context now rare English) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait. 6 (context archaic English) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others. 7 The part of a typewriter supporting the paper. 8 (context US New England English) A shopping cart. 9 (context British English) A stroller; a baby carriage. 10 The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases ''carriage forward'', when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and ''carriage paid'').

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WordNet
carriage

  1. n. a railcar where passengers ride [syn: passenger car, coach]

  2. a vehicle with four wheels drawn by two or more horses [syn: equipage, rig]

  3. characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture" [syn: bearing, posture]

  4. a machine part that carries something else

  5. a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher]

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Gazetteer
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Wikipedia
Carriage

A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn; litters (palanquins) and sedan chairs are excluded, since they are wheelless vehicles. The carriage is especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some are also used to transport goods. It may be light, smart and fast or heavy, large and comfortable. Carriages normally have suspension using leaf springs, elliptical springs (in the 19th century) or leather strapping. A public passenger vehicle would not usually be called a carriage – terms for such include stagecoach, charabanc and omnibus. Working vehicles such as the (four-wheeled) wagon and (two-wheeled) cart share important parts of the history of the carriage, as is the fast (two-wheeled) chariot.

Carriage (disambiguation)

Carriage is a wheeled vehicle for carrying people, especially horse-drawn.

Carriage may also refer to:

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Usage examples of "carriage".

OF THE TIMES when Adams felt himself uncomfortably alone at center stage, there were few to compare to the afternoon in London, when at the end of a short ride through the rain with Lord Carmarthen in his carriage, they approached the arched gatehouse at St.

The grand cavalcade that escorted Adams out of the city included more than forty carriages.

Through the sweltering summer, Adams never missed a day in the Senate, rolling in each morning from Richmond Hill in a one-horse chaise, not the fine carriage portrayed in hostile newspaper accounts.

Expecting her to arrive at Philadelphia on May 10, Adams set off that morning by carriage and met her about twenty-five miles outside the city.

Sometimes on summer afternoons she came out of the house and got into her carriage.

Next morning they resumed their journey, and halted one night more before they reached Tepellene, in approaching which they met a carriage, not inelegantly constructed after the German fashion, with a man on the box driving four-in-hand, and two Albanian soldiers standing on the footboard behind.

The time involved was about half an hour, between seven-fifteen, when Phoebe Gunther left the baby carriage and its contents, including the monkey wrenches, with Boone in the room, and around seven forty-five, when Alger Kates discovered the body.

God knows what the fierce Spaniard would have answered, but at that moment the carriage stopped at the door of the theatre.

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.

The carriages are also to be carefully examined, the trunnion-holes and arms of the axletrees cleaned, and saturated with boiled linseed oil, the cracks filled with putty, and rubbed smooth, and the trunnion-holes black-leaded.

Queen was evidently expected at the Casa del Ayuntamiento, for at the approach of the carriage the great doors were thrown open and a number of servants appeared in the patio, which was but dimly lighted.

He is drawn about in a light carriage made of basketwork, and this serves him also for his bed.

I sleep better in my carriage than in the bad beds they give you in the inns.

Townsmen and merchants on top of their carriages, cavalry officers, bright in their red and gold uniforms, rough teamsters in what passed for formal dress in that level of society, illiterate shepherds from the Randau Basin and befurred mountain folk from the north, sweating in their heavy cloaks.

Had they traveled from Natchez to New Orleans by steamboat and then by ship to Biloxi, they would have greatly reduced their time en route, but Robert Somerton had brought a fine carriage to the city on the bluff, and by this mode he would return.