car·riage / ˈkarij/ • n. 1. a means of conveyance, in particular: ∎  a four-wheeled passenger vehicle pulled by two or more horses: a horse-drawn carriage. ∎ a baby carriage. ∎ a shopping cart. ∎  a wheeled support for moving a heavy object such as a gun. ∎  Brit. a passenger car of a train: the first-class carriages. 2. the transporting of items or merchandise from one place to another. ∎  the cost of such a procedure. 3. a moving part of a machine that carries other parts into the required position: a typewriter carriage. 4. [in sing.] a person's bearing or deportment: her carriage was graceful.

carriage •carriage, disparage, Harwich, intermarriage, marriage, miscarriage •undercarriage •cartridge, partridge •Selfridge • Cambridge • Bainbridge •Knightsbridge • umpirage •borage, forage, Norwich, porridge •Oxbridge • storage • drawbridge •Trowbridge • tollbridge • footbridge •courage, demurrage, encourage •umbrage • suffrage •peerage, steerage •sewerage • moorage •harbourage (US harborage) •pasturage • pilferage • anchorage •acreage • vicarage • brokerage •cellarage • Coleridge •haemorrhage (US hemorrhage) •amperage • factorage • hectarage •litreage (US literage), metreage (US meterage) • fosterage •porterage, quarterage •tutorage • average •beverage, Beveridge •leverage • overage • coverage

carriage conveyance, transport XIV; means of conveyance, vehicle XV; manner of carrying oneself, bearing XVI. — ONF. cariage, f. carier CARRY; see -AGE.

carriage. Timber framework on which the steps of a staircase are supported. One such rough-string is called a carriage-piece.