Carriage vs. Shay — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Carriage and Shay
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Carriage
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.
Shay
Another term for chaise (sense 1)
Carriage
A wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, often of an elegant design.
Shay
A chaise.
Carriage
Chiefly British A railroad passenger car.
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Shay
(archaic) A chaise.
Carriage
A baby carriage.
Shay
A chaise.
Carriage
A wheeled support or frame for carrying a heavy object, such as a cannon.
Shay
A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top; drawn by a single horse
Carriage
A moving part of a machine for holding or shifting another part
The carriage of a typewriter.
Carriage
The act or process of transporting or carrying.
Carriage
(kărē-ĭj) The cost of or the charge for transporting.
Carriage
The manner of holding and moving one's head and body; bearing.
Carriage
(Archaic) Management; administration.
Carriage
The act of conveying; carrying.
Carriage
Means of conveyance.
Carriage
A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.
The carriage ride was very romantic.
Carriage
A railroad car
Carriage
The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head.
The runner has a very low arm carriage.
Carriage
A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
Carriage
(archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
Carriage
The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
Carriage
A shopping cart.
Carriage
(British) A stroller; a baby carriage.
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).
Carriage
(archaic) That which is carried, baggage
Carriage
That which is carried; burden; baggage.
David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage.
And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem.
Carriage
The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
Nine days employed in carriage.
Carriage
The price or expense of carrying.
Carriage
That which carries of conveys,
Carriage
The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
His gallant carriage all the rest did grace.
Carriage
The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.
The passage and whole carriage of this action.
Carriage
A railcar where passengers ride
Carriage
A vehicle with four wheels drawn by two or more horses
Carriage
Characteristic way of bearing one's body;
Stood with good posture
Carriage
A machine part that carries something else
Carriage
A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
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