carriage

Noun

carriage (countable and uncountable, plural carriages)

1. (uncommon) The act of conveying; carrying.
   • The remainder of the men were employed in unbarreling our Pork and stringing it on poles for convenience of carriage, and carrying our Batteaux from the river to the pond.1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775, page 6
2. A means of conveyance.
3. A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.
   • The carriage ride was very romantic.

   Antonyms:

   wagon

4. 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.
5. (archaic) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
   • a tall woman with a beautiful upright carriage.
   • His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
6. (archaic) One's behavior, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
   • I had almoſt forgotten to acquaint your honor, that one major Alford (who was in mr. Love's conſpiracy) was of the graund inqueſt at Saliſbury, and was very zealous in his highneſſe ſervice here, and his good affection and wiſe carriage here, did much advantage the buſſineſe.1655 April 21, “Mr. Ja. Nutley to ſecreary Thurloe.”, in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Eſq; […], volume III, London: […] the Executor of the late Mr. Fletcher Gyles; Thomas...
   • He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 407
7. 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.
8. (New-England, US) A shopping cart.
9. (UK) A stroller; a baby carriage.
10. A gun carriage.
11. 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).

    Synonyms:

    freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate

12. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage.
    • And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 17:22