Whirlicote vs Carriage - What's the difference?
whirlicote | carriage | Hyponyms |
(obsolete) An open car or chariot.
The act of conveying; carrying.
Means of conveyance.
A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
(British) A rail car, esp. designed for the conveyance of passengers.
A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 90:
(archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
(US, New England) A shopping cart.
(British) A stroller; a baby carriage.
The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward'', when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and ''carriage paid ).
Related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage -horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
Whirlicote is a hyponym of carriage.
As nouns the difference between whirlicote and carriage
is that whirlicote is (obsolete) an open car or chariot while carriage is the act of conveying; carrying.As a adjective carriage is
related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.whirlicote
English
Noun
(en noun)- Of old time coaches were not known in this island, but chariots, or whirlicotes . — Stow.
carriage
English
Noun
(en noun)- The carriage ride was very romantic.
- His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].
- He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.
- He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that [...] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.
- Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].