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Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.

A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip. Beaconsfield.

d or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree. [People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot. Emerson.

A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim- whiskey.

and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.

ing at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench. Carriage wrench, a wrench adapted for removing or tightening the nuts that confine the wheels on the axles, or for turning the other nuts or bolts of a carriage or wagon. -- Monkey wrench. See under Monkey. -- Wrench hammer, a w…

A kind of timber truck, or carriage.