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 →

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 →
• THE “SHINANSHA,” OR THE SOUTH POINTING CARRIAGE (Japanese Fairy Tales) tree →
• The Fairy stopped her carriage and addressed them: (The Red Fairy Book) tree →

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.
• A train is a long chain of carriages or wagons rolling on two steel rails.
• A usual passenger carriage runs on 8 wheels: two sets of 4 wheels, one set near each end.
• A bicycle has 2 wheels, a tricycle 3, a car 4, and a usual train carriage 8.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «carriage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.