Definitions for carriage

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carriage car·riage

Spelling: [kar-ij; for 9 also kar-ee-ij]

IPA: /ˈkær ɪdʒ; for 9 also ˈkær i ɪdʒ/

Carriage is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in carriage (aacegirr).

Definitions for carriage

noun

1. a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.
2. baby carriage.
3. British. a railway passenger coach.
4. a wheeled support, as for a cannon.
5. a movable part, as of a machine, designed for carrying something.
6. manner of carrying the head and body; bearing:
7. Also called carriage piece, horse. an inclined beam, as a string, supporting the steps of a stair.
8. the act of transporting; conveyance:
9. the price or cost of transportation.
10. (in a typewriter) the moving part carrying the platen and its associated parts, usually set in motion to carry the paper across the point where the print element or type bars strike.
11. management; administration.

Origin of carriage

1150-1200; Middle English cariage Anglo-French, Old North French, equivalent to cari(er) to carry + -age -age

Examples for carriage

Or a horse and carriage, like the one driven a young man in a tweed suit and cap from yesteryear, as he gazed up at the stars.

The two saddle-horses and a team for carriage use had been shipped ahead.

Simplicity and self-forgetfulness were manifest in carriage and utterance.

Going hands-free is just one of the perks of a place where the only form of transportation is by carriage, bike, or tractor.

He made his views on the carriage controversy known in a letter to a City Council member back in 2009.

At the same time there was not a suspicion of truculence or even repulse in his carriage.

Mandelbaum responded by punching Frank in the nose and knocking him from the carriage.

Your manner reduced me to a groom who opened your carriage door.

There was greater freedom in her carriage, and she seemed to have grown.

Meet Roger, the horse saved from slaughter by a carriage driver.