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A kind of two-wheeled vehicle with seats back to back, the front one somewhat elevated.

Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. "A team of dolphins." Spenser. To take his team and till the earth. Piers Plowman. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighb…

A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin. Telpher line, or Telpher road, an electric line or road over which vehicles for carrying loads are moved by electric engines actuated by a current conveyed by the line.

The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin.

One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.

A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

In France, a light-wheeled vehicle with square or rounded body and rear entrance.

pes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

f direction in which a tractive force acts. -- Traction engine, a locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields.

Anything drawn along, as a vehicle. [Obs.]

A wagon, or other vehicle. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

An odometer for vehicles. Knight.

A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.

A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.

To convey by means of a vehicle; to ride in a vehicle. Carlyle.

Movement of vehicles.

A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man. [R.]