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# carriage

«carriage» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **coach; horse-drawn vehicle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

coach; horse-drawn vehicle

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A wheeled vehicle pulled by horses, used to carry people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/carriage/#m1)

### how it differs from today

In these sentences it means a horse-drawn coach. Today a carriage is usually one car of a train.

### examples

- The prince looked well at the carriage. (The Crimson Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/carriage/#x1)
- THE “SHINANSHA,” OR THE SOUTH POINTING CARRIAGE (Japanese Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/carriage/#x2)
- The Fairy stopped her carriage and addressed them: (The Red Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/carriage/#x3)

### primary record

carriage

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 260 (Torah 0, tales 260, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 29.5 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Move away from the doors into the carriage so people can get on and off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/12/)
- [A train is a long chain of carriages or wagons rolling on two steel rails.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/0/)
- [A usual passenger carriage runs on 8 wheels: two sets of 4 wheels, one set near each end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/22/)
- [A bicycle has 2 wheels, a tricycle 3, a car 4, and a usual train carriage 8.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/42-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «carriage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/carriage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.