Carriage (disambiguation)
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A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for carrying people, especially horse-drawn.
Carriage may also refer to:
Vehicles
[edit]- Baby transport, also called a baby carriage (especially in North America) or pram, a four-wheeled pushed conveyance for reclining infants
- Gun carriage, an apparatus upon which a field gun is mounted for manoeuvring, firing, and transport
- Hose carriage, a wheeled vehicle for carrying a fire hose
- Railway carriage (especially in the British Isles and many Commonwealth countries), a railway vehicle (US: railroad car), part of a train for carrying people
- Undercarriage, the part of a moving vehicle that is underneath the main body of the vehicle, such as the:
- Chassis, the undercarriage of a motor vehicle
- Continuous track, the undercarriage of a tracked vehicle
- Landing gear, the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- "The Carriage", an 1836 short story by Nikolai Gogol
- The Carriage (opera), a 2009 opera by Vyacheslav Kruglik, based on Gogol's story
People
[edit]- Leigh Carriage, Australian vocalist, educator and songwriter
Other uses
[edit]- Carriage - human posture, deportment behavior or bearing
- Carriage, retransmission of broadcast signals, as in carriage dispute (a disagreement over the right to "carry", that is, retransmit, a broadcaster's signal)
- Carriage, conveyance of passengers or goods, as in a contract of carriage
- Carriage, part of a lace machine
- Shopping cart, alternative name for a shopping carriage
- Staircase carriage, the timber or iron joist supporting a wooden staircase
- Typewriter carriage, the part of a typewriter which moves the paper past the printing mechanism