Carriage vs. Patache — What's the Difference?

A carriage is a private four-wheeled vehicle for people and is most commonly horse-drawn. Second-hand private carriages were common public transport, the equivalent of modern cars used as taxis.

A patache (occasionally "patax" or "pataje") is a type of sailing vessel with two masts, very light and shallow, a sort of cross between a brig and a schooner, which originally was a warship, being intended for surveillance and inspection of the coasts and ports. It was used as a tender to the fleet of vessels of more importance or size, and also for trans-Pacific travel, but later began to be used for trading voyages, carrying cargo burdens of 30 tons or more.

A wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, often of an elegant design.

A dispatch-boat; a small vessel used to communicate between the vessels of a fleet.

Chiefly British A railroad passenger car.

A horse-drawn carriage with two wheels used in France.

A baby carriage.

A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure.

A wheeled support or frame for carrying a heavy object, such as a cannon.

A moving part of a machine for holding or shifting another part

The act or process of transporting or carrying.

(kărē-ĭj) The cost of or the charge for transporting.

The manner of holding and moving one's head and body; bearing.

(Archaic) Management; administration.

The act of conveying; carrying.

Means of conveyance.

A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.

A railroad car

The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head.

A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.

(archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.

The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.

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).

(archaic) That which is carried, baggage

That which is carried; burden; baggage.

The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.

The price or expense of carrying.

That which carries of conveys,

The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

A railcar where passengers ride

A vehicle with four wheels drawn by two or more horses

Characteristic way of bearing one's body;

A machine part that carries something else

A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around