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A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.

The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret. -- Barbette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of Casemate.]

A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

-- Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy. -- Ou…

The pole of a carriage. [Poetic] Dryden.

The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. I know him by his bearing. Shak.

See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.

ner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior. Steele. To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon one…

A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

s-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612).

The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.

To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.

That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.