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op on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used.

The top or head of a carriage.

A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.

icles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity, steam, etc.; as, a horseless carriage or truck.

used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine. Hose carriage, cart, or truck, a wheeled vehicle fitted for conveying hose for extinguishing fires. -- Hose company, a company of men appointed to bring and manage hose in the extinguishing of fires. [U.S.] -- Hose coupling, coupling…

l.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.

An inside passenger of a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside. [Colloq. Eng.] So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides. Anti-Jacobin. Patent insides or outside, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter,…

Anything made of iron; -- a general name of such parts or pieces of a building, vessel, carriage, etc., as consist of iron.

To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. Thackeray.

To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

int. (b) A flush joint, as of plank in carvel-built vessels. -- Jump seat. (a) A movable carriage seat. (b) A carriage constructed with a seat which may be shifted so as to make room for second or extra seat. Also used adjectively; as, a jump-seat wagon.

o two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage. [Written also landaw.]

A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.

A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage. [Colloq.]

screw (Mach.), the main longitudinal screw of a lathe, which gives the feed motion to the carriage.

To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; - - with from, off, on, upon, at, in. When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. Gen. xxiv. 64. Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. Tennyson.

The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. [Prov. Eng.]

g upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. De Quincey.

A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix. Consolidation lo…

An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage. Lunette window (Arch.), a window which fills or partly fills a lunette.