Crossword clues for curricle
curricle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curricle \Cur"ri*cle\ (k?r"r?-k'l), n. [L.curriculum a running, a race course, fr. currere to run. See Current, and cf. Curriculum.]
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A small or short course.
Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next.
--Sir T. Browne. A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.
Wiktionary
n. A light two wheeled carriage large enough for the driver and a passenger and drawn by a carefully-matched pair.
Wikipedia
A curricle was a smart, light two-wheeled chaise or "chariot", large enough for the driver and a passenger and— most unusual for a vehicle with a single axle—usually drawn by a carefully matched pair of horses. It was popular in the early 19th century: its name — from the Latin curriculum, meaning "running", "racecourse" or "chariot" — is the equivalent of a " runabout" and it was a rig suitable for a smart young man who liked to drive himself, at a canter. The French liked the English-sounding term "carrick" for these vehicles. The lightweight swept body with just the lightest dashboard hung with a pair of lamps was hung from a pair of outsized swan-neck leaf springs at the rear. For a grand show in the Bois de Boulogne or along the seafront at Honfleur, two liveried mounted grooms might follow.
In Northanger Abbey Henry Tilney drives a curricle; John Thorpe drives a gig, but buffoonishly praises it as "curricle-hung". Margaret Sullivan found that Jane Austen's assignment of vehicles to the two men was far from arbitrary.
Curricles were notorious for the accidents their drivers suffered. Thus, in the romance novel Miss Carlyle's Curricle by Karen Harbaugh, the heroine inherits the curricle in which her uncle died in a racing accident.
Usage examples of "curricle".
At last count he owned three phaetons, four coaches, a barouche, and five curricles, and he could think of at least two cronies in London who would die of laughter if they ever saw him driving five little chits in a cart.
Ferdy was on the point of suggesting, had not the Viscount nipped such friendly overtures in the bud by scowling upon his victim, offering him the curtest of apologies, handing him his card, climbing into his curricle, and driving off without another word.
Cyr, Viscount Devlin, only surviving son and heir to the Earl of Hendon, propped his shoulders against the high side of his curricle, crossed his arms at his chest, and thought about his bed.
After Kalka the road wound among the hills, and we took a curricle with half-broken ponies, which were changed every six miles.
He was driving a stylish curricle picked out in blue and silver, a tiger behind, and Caro Kenilworth up front with him.
By the time Froxfield was reached, he had succeeded in diverting her mind, and the rest of the way to Speenhamland might have been accomplished without incident had not Duke, who had been sleeping off his meal, awakened, and signified, in no uncertain manner, his wish to leave the curricle.
Those were the days when the Prince of Wales had just built his singular palace by the sea, and so from May to September, which was the Brighton season, there was never a day that from one to two hundred curricles, chaises, and phaetons did not rattle past our doors.
I fancy myself a little in that line, so my proposal is that we race our curricles and four from London to Brighton, tigers up, on a day to be named.
Dickie had made the grooms practise the change-over before they were despatched to the post houses but he couldn't duplicate the real problems they might face in an inn yard crowded with in going and outgoing stagecoaches, mail coaches chaises, barouches, cabriolets and curricles as well as slow gigs and lumbering farm carts, all wanting to change horses rapidly at the same time.
As he liked the sport more for its own sake than for the money that could be won by backing winners, he went to any race meeting held within reach of the city, driving himself and Barny in a curricle which, acting on the advice of Endymion Dauntry, he had bought (really dog-cheap) in Long Acre.
As he tooled his curricle at a smart pace on his way north, with only his tiger, Bladen, for company, he felt again an unsettling restlessness that even the promise of excellent shooting and the thought of comfortable evenings spent with his friends did not lessen.
My gilt curricle and out-riders, blazing in green and gold, were very different objects from the equipages you see nowadays in the ring, with the stunted grooms behind them.
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.
Having quizzed Miss Taverner for several minutes, he started to come towards her curricle, but encountered such a frosty look from her that he changed his mind, and began to curse one of the ostlers instead.
Minnie's traveling carriage rocked to a stop behind his curricle, directly before the steps of Number 22.