break

en-verb

break (third-person singular simple present breaks, present participle breaking, simple past broke or (archaic) brake, past participle broken or (nonstandard) broke)

breaks (present singular third-person)
breaking (participle present)
broke (past)
brake (archaic past)
broken (participle past)
broke (nonstandard participle past)
break (infinitive)

From Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”). The word is a doublet of bray.
Cognates
Cognates of Germanic origin include Scots brek (“to break”), West Frisian brekke (“to break”), Dutch breken (“to break”), Low German breken (“to break”), German brechen (“to break”), French broyer (“to crush, grind”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break, destroy”), Norwegian brek (“desire, yearning”).
Also cognate with Albanian brishtë (“fragile”), Latin frangō (“break, break up, shatter”, verb), whence English fracture and other terms – fragile, frail, fraction, and fragment.

breek

intransitive: to separate into (to end up in) two or more pieces

thyen

transitive: to separate into (to cause to end up in) two or more pieces

sındırmaq

to cause a person to lose spirit or will

խախտել

transitive: to do that which is forbidden by (something)

փչանալ

intransitive: to stop functioning properly or altogether

ջարդել

transitive: to cause to stop functioning

burst

ergative: separate into two or more pieces

contravene

transitive: do that which is forbidden by

break one's arm patting oneself on the back

you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

His coughing broke the silence.

His turning on the lights broke the enchantment.

With the mood broken, what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.

(transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.


fly

From Middle English flye (“flying, flight”), from Old English flyge (“flying, flight”), from Proto-Germanic *flugiz.

дюкян

strip that hides the opening of trousers/pants or underpants

to the fly of the compass, which before was made equal, I was still constrained to put some small piece of wire on the south part there

a. 1850, Robert Norman, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.

Edward H[enry] Knight
w:Edward H. Knight

In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.


drag

en-verb

drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged or (dialectal) drug)

drags (present singular third-person)
dragging (participle present)
dragged (participle past)
dragged (past)
drug (dialectal participle past)
drug (dialectal past)

From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).
Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled or dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.

cog

look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

Drag the file into the window to open it.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.

trække

computing: to move a cursor while holding down a button on the mouse


spider

en-noun

spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.

2008, Alex Michael, Ben Salter, Marketing Through Search Optimization, Routledge, →ISBN, page xii:

(Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

If you are deep-frying your falafel, use a spider or basket to place them gently into the hot oil, which should be preheated to a temperature of 175°C (330°F).

1996, City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide., Stanley Thornes, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157

Consider investing in a frying basket or a spider for small amounts of fish. A spider looks like a metal web and has a long handle and can lower and raise fish from the hot oil.

2008, Anna Kasabian, David Kasabian, The Wild Fish Cookbook, Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 84:

(cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer

I am also disappointed with the horses, having hardly seen a decent pair yet, while the traps and horses do not look smart and well groomed. There are a great many American spiders used. Have not seen a bullock in the yoke yet.

1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 298:


gig

The noun is derived from Middle English gigg, gigge, gygge (“spinning object; a top”); further origin uncertain, possibly:
* from Old Norse [Term?] (compare Danish gig (“a top”), dialectal Norwegian giga (“to shake about”)), from Proto-Germanic *gīganą (“to move, wish, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeyǵʰ-, *gʰeygʰ- (“to yawn, gape, long for, desire”); or
* ultimately onomatopoeic.
Senses 2–4 are thought to derive from sense 1 (“whipping-top”), but their exact relationship is unclear.
The verb is derived from the noun.

uder

She [a frigate] also carried a Commodore's Barge, a Captain's Gig, and a "dingy," a small yawl, with a crew of apprentice boys. […] Above all, the officers see to it that the Commodore's Barge and the Captain's Gig are manned by gentlemanly youths, who do credit to their country, and form agreeable objects for the eyes of the Commodore or Captain to repose upon as he tranquilly sits in the stern, when pulled ashore by his barge-men or gig-men, as the case may be.

1850, Herman Melville, “The Frigate in Harbour—The Boats—Grand State Reception of the Commodore”, in White Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 254:

The captain's gig still lies before ye whole and sound, / It shall carry all o' we.

1979, Stan Rogers (lyrics and music), “The Flowers of Bermuda” (track 6), in Between the Breaks … Live!, Dundas, Ont.: Fogarty’s Cove Music:

A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.

giek

(Southern England, by extension) A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Gig

similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

While Sir William was with them, Mr. Collins devoted his mornings to driving him out in his gig, and shewing him the country; […]

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 77:

Here a coach thundered over the pavement, and there an unwieldy omnibus, with spruce gigs rattling past, and horsemen prancing through all the bustle.

1837 July, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “[Tales and Sketches.] Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man.”, in The Dolliver Romance, and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1876, →OCLC, section I, page 84:

[W]hen he was gone (in the carriage, mind you, not in the gig driven by the groom), I am sure Mrs. Newcome would have written a letter that night to Her Grace the Duchess Dowager, his mamma, full of praise of the dear child, his graciousness, his beauty, and his wit, and declaring that she must love him henceforth and for ever after as a son of her own.

1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Clive’s Uncles”, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 51:

[T]he room grew stifling warm and vapor clung to the windowpanes, blurring the throng of people still milling outside the courthouse, a row of tethered gigs and buggies, distant pine trees in a scrawny, ragged grove.

1967, William Styron, “Judgment Day”, in The Confessions of Nat Turner, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 77:

(road transport, historical) A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.


trap

en-noun

trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)

From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”).
Cognate with Dutch trap (“trap, snare”), German Low German Trapp (“trap”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.

vēuháutsīe

a type of trap to catch birds using bait with adjustable loop

After 100 traps, the arresting cables have to be replaced to minimize the danger of a worn or fatigued cable snapping under an aircraft.

(aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

...his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in)...

"Carry your traps out, Ma?" asked one of the passengers.

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 144:


coach

→ Czech: kouč

→ Danish: coach

→ Dutch: coach

→ French: coach

→ German: Coach

→ Italian: coach

→ Japanese: コーチ (kōchi)

→ Korean: 코치 (kochi)

→ Malay: koc

→ Polish: coach

→ Spanish: coach

→ Swahili: kocha

→ Swedish: coach

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest.
The meaning "instructor/trainer" is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a "tutor" who "carries" one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.

(rail transport, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.

կառք

wheeled vehicle drawn by horse power — see also carriage


whisky

en-noun

whisky (countable and uncountable, plural whiskies)

Variant of usque, abbreviation of usquebaugh (compare obsolete whiskybae), from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (“water of life”), calque of Medieval Latin aqua vitae. Compare akvavit, aquavit, aqua vitae, eau de vie, and water of life from the same source.

der

That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(Scotland, Canada, Australia) Alternative form of whiskey, an alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain, usually aged in oak barrels, (particularly) Scotch; a drink of this liquor.


whiskey

LL-Q1860 (eng)-عُثمان (Middle river exports)-whiskey.wav

Ye Ladies of Lapland who beesoms bestride,
Or, pair’d in Witch Whiskeys, aslant the Moon slide;

1772, George Alexander Stevens, “The Portrait”, in Songs, Comic, and Satyrical, Oxford, page 202:

(historical) A light gig or carriage drawn by one horse.


cabriolet

Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

"I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma."

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 72:

(originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.

кабриолет

a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse


brett

(archaic) A britchka; a kind of horse-drawn carriage.


calash

(historical) Alternative form of calèche (“type of carriage with low wheels”)


araba

From Ottoman Turkish عربه (modern Turkish araba).

No one but a native of the luxurious East could ever have invented an araba, with its comfortable cushions, and its gaily painted roof, and gilded pillars. The prettiest are those of brown and gold, with rose-coloured draperies, through which the breeze flutters to your cheek as blandly as though it loved the tint that reminded it of the roses of the past season amid which it had wandered."

1836, Julia Pardoe, City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks:

I found the examination of these antiquities much less pleasant than to look at the many troops of children assembled on the plain to play; and to watch them as they were dragged about in little queer arobas, or painted carriages, which are there kept for hire.

1845, William Makepeace Thackeray, Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo:

There is, however, such a thing as an “araba,” a vehicle drawn by oxen, in which the wives of a rich man are sometimes dragged four or five miles over the grass by way of recreation. The carriage is rudely framed, but you recognise in the simple grandeur of its design a likeness to things majestic; in short, if your carpenter’s son were to make a “Lord Mayor’s coach” for little Amy, he would build a carriage very much in the style of a Turkish araba.

1898, Alexander William Kinglake, Eothen:

Whenever I mounted the araba, he would whip his horses to a sharp trot or canter for half a mile, and then at a word stop for me to get out.

1917, W.J. Childs, Across Asia Minor on Foot:

(historical) A horse-drawn carriage once used for transportation in pre-modern Turkey.


phaeton

It had been settled that Lorraine was to drive Emily in his phaeton. It is true the sun was full in her eyes, the wind high, and the dust, which is just mud in high spirits, flew round them in clouds; but Emily found her ride delightful.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 260:

...I saw the girls of Nob Hill on their way to school, kicking pebbles at each other and laughing; I saw young ladies coming home past curfew in their beaus' phaetons...

2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 43:

(vehicles) a light four-wheeled open carriage drawn by four horses


bandy

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


shay

A back-formation from chaise (originally from French), with the /z/ of that word taken as the plural ending -s.

The poſt-ſhay ſhall be at the door by ſix o'clock in the morning; and if Miſs Fanny does not get into it, vvhy I vvill, and ſo there's an end of the matter.

1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 57:

Master sent me over with the shay-cart, to carry your luggage up to the house. He’d ha’ sent some saddle-horses, but he thought you’d rather walk, being a cold day.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:


troika

From Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”).

A great writer of the last epoch, comparing Russia to a swift troika galloping to an unknown goal, exclaims 'Oh, troika, birdlike troika, who invented thee!' and adds, in proud ecstasy, that all the peoples of the world stand aside respectfully to make way for the recklessly galloping troika to pass.

1880, Constance Garnett, chapter VI, in The Brothers Karamazov, book XII, translation of original by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, page 787:

When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth.

1960, Lesley Blanch, The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, published 2006, →ISBN, page 145:

Travelling part of the way by rail and the remainder by troika, he reached Orenburg shortly before Christmas.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, Oxford University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 367:

A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.


Croydon

From Old English Crogedena ("saffron valley"), from Old English croh (“saffron”) (< Latin crocus (“saffron”)) + Old English denu (“valley”).

South Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire#English

A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3149).

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Utah.

A suburb of Sydney, in the Municipality of Burwood and Inner West council area, New South Wales.

A suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia.


hackney cab

hackney carriage
hackney carriage#English

(chiefly UK) Synonym of hackney carriage, (historical) a carriage pulled by a hackney horse or a motorized vehicle available for public hire.


telega

From mid-16th century Russian теле́га (teléga), probably from Khazar.

Three kinds of conveyances are available: the telega, or cart without springs, which has to be changed at every station, and for which a charge of about 8d. is made at every stage; the kibitka, or cart (in winter a sledge) with a hood; and the tarantas, a kind of carriage on wooden springs, which admits of the traveller lying down full length, and which can be made very comfortable at night.

1868, “Route 25: London to Pekin […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 329:

A simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs.

арба

a simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs


tandem

en-noun

tandem (countable and uncountable, plural tandems)

PIE word
 *téh₂m
The noun is borrowed from Latin tandem (“of time: at last, at length, finally”), applied humorously in English to two horses harnessed “at length” (that is, in a single line) instead of side-by-side. Tandem is derived from tam (“so, to such an extent”) + -dem (demonstrative suffix).
The adjective, adverb, and verb are derived from the noun.

tandem

carriage pulled by two or more draught animals harnessed one behind the other; two draught animals harnessed one behind the other

tandem-

[H]e was a man whose head was at this time entirely full of gigs, and tandems, and unicorns: business was his aversion; pleasure was his business.

1804, Maria Edgeworth, “The Contrast. Chapter II. Ignorance of Things, into which It is a Duty to Enquire, is the Cause of Many Odious Vices.”, in Popular Tales, volume III, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, […], [b]y C. Mercier and Co., […], →OCLC, page 30:

A friend of mine accompanies me in my carriage to Edinburgh. There we shall leave it, and proceed in a tandem (a species of open carriage) through the western passes to Inverary, where we shall purchase shelties, to enable us to view places inaccessible to vehicular conveyances.

1807 August 11, Lord Byron, “Letter XVII. To Miss ——.”, in Thomas Moore, editor, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1830, →OCLC, pages 118–119:

Mr. Foker was no more like a gentleman now than in his school days: and yet Pen felt a secret pride in strutting down High Street with a young fellow who owned tandems, talked to officers, and ordered turtle and champagne for dinner.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In which Pendennis Appears as a Very Young Man Indeed”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 31:

The chief characteristic of this set was the most reckless extravagance of every kind. […] They drove tandems in all directions, scattering their ample allowances, which they treated as pocket money, about roadside inns and Oxford taverns with open hand, and going tick for every thing which could by possibility be booked.

1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “St. Ambrose’s College”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 3:

(countable) A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing pulling power but only the animal in front being able to steer.

Later in the day the Row is empty, but, on the other hand, the pleasure horse monopolises the circle, now comparatively deserted. Singly, in pairs, tandems, and fours, he draws the family carriage with a lozenge on the panels, the brougham of the fashionable doctor, the coupé of the popular actress, the man about town's smart dog-cart.

[1903], Charles Dudley, “Equine London”, in George R[obert] Sims, editor, Living London: Its Work and Its Play, Its Humour and Its Pathos, Its Sights and Its Scenes, special edition, volume II, section I, London: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, pages 158–159, column 2:

Two draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other.

A thing with two components arranged one behind the other.

(specifically, cycling) Short for tandem bicycle (“a bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front being able to steer”).

tandem bicycle

Stubb's whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Stubb’s Supper”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 324:

(countable) A group of two or more machines, people, etc., working together; hence (uncountable), close collaboration.


tandem

Their skillful tandem work made the project quick and successful.

(figurative) Working together collaboratively; collaborative, cooperative.

заедно

working together collaboratively — see also collaborative, cooperative


tandem

en-verb

tandem (third-person singular simple present tandems, present participle tandeming, simple past and past participle tandemed)

tandems (present singular third-person)
tandeming (participle present)
tandemed (participle past)
tandemed (past)

[O]ur dog-cart having come to hand, from the hilliness of the road, we tandemed the ten miles due west, along the southern shore of Clew Bay.

1861, “a retired civil engineer” [pseudonym], “Westport—The Killeries”, in Ierne. Or, Anecdotes and Incidents during a Life Chiefly in Ireland. […] (First Series), London: Partridge and Co., […], →OCLC, page 208:

And sometimes these nymphs [on frescoes] are tandeming the daintiest little gryphons so pleasantly that one longs (in the dream) to be with them, not fearing a reverse.

1866 May 1, “Visits to the Paradise of Artists. IV. Pompeii.—The Enchanting Sights and Disenchanting Sounds of Naples.—Capri.”, in The Art-Journal, volume V (New Series), London: Virtue & Co., page 129, column 2:

Hendee is located at the New Marlboro', and is tandeming with his lady friends through the Newtons daily.

1886 July 9, “Pencilled Paragraphs”, in The Cycle, volume I, number 15, Boston, Mass.: Abbot Bassett, →OCLC, page 263, column 3:

Mr. Cadman gives a humorous description of their journey, as they tandemed the donkey to drag their impedimenta up the slope of 1,200 feet.

1898 July 16, “The Gentle Art. Harry Druidale, Fisherman, from Manxland to England. By Henry Cadman. London: Macmillan & Co. [book review]”, in [Thomas Wemyss Reid], editor, The Speaker, London: The Speaker Office, →OCLC, page 87:

[A]n excessively dissipative error cancellation delay line is unacceptable, since that line directly tandems the main power amplifier.

1971 November, H. Seidel, “A Microwave Feed-forward Experiment”, in The Bell System Technical Journal, volume 50, number 9, New York, N.Y.: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2892:

Charlotte, who I had not yet had the chance to do more than talk to, was tandeming [on a tandem bicycle] with George but each was accusing the other of not putting in their fare share of the pedalling.

1989, Andrew Scott [pseudonym; Lionel Trapes?], chapter 3, in The Oyster, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: Blue Moon Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 80:

No strained informality this as Judy [Garland] tandemed provocative chatter with her guests Lena Horne and Terry-Thomas.

1990, Coyne Steven Sanders, Rainbow’s End: The Judy Garland Show, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 233:

Remote-office-to-remote-office communication happens by tandeming through the headquarters router. The headquarters router and port connection can become bottlenecks. Network latency increases with tandeming.

2002, Regis J. (Bud) Bates, “Frame Relay”, in Broadband Telecommunications Handbook (McGraw-Hill Telecommunications), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 205:

(transitive, intransitive) Synonym of tandemize (“(transitive) to harness or drive (two draught animals, generally draught horses) one behind the other; to set up (two or more things, such as pieces or equipment) to work in tandem or together; (intransitive) to drive a tandem (‘carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other’)”)


dog cart

At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us.

1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:

While Kitto chatted to William, Jessamy looked with interest at the dog cart. It had a pair of high wooden wheels with two seats back to back above. Between the shafts the bay mare tossed her head and fidgeted on the cobbles.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 57:

A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two transverse seats back to back. The rear seat originally closed up to form a box for carrying dogs.


landau

Named after the German city of Landau, where such carriages were first made. Compare German Landauer.

Indeed, as the two gentlemen reached the door, a landau drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage, lined with brocade or satin of a faint cream colour, drawn by wonderful grey horses, with flaming ribbons, and harness blazing all over with crests: no less than three of these heraldic emblems surmounted the coats-of-arms on the panels, and these shields contained a prodigious number of quarterings, betokening the antiquity and splendour of the house of Clavering and Snell.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.

1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 1:

Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them, when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.

1891 June 25, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure I.—A Scandal in Bohemia.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II, London: George Newnes, Limited, […], published July 1891, →OCLC, page 68, column 2:

A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.

(by extension) A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.


vis-à-vis

Unadapted borrowing from French vis-à-vis.

ubor

He was seated vis-à-vis the president.

Opposite; across from; set so as to be facing.


tonga

uder

Hindi टाँगा (ṭāṅgā)

Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.

1890, Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills:

When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga.

1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 13:

The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.

1972, Abulhasan 'Ali Nadvi, The Musalman, page 42:

(India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.


surrey

From the Surrey cart, a type of carriage originally made in the county of Surrey in England, UK, and introduced into the USA in 1872.

The Surrey must be looked upon as the spring novelty in the way of road-wagons.

1874 April 1, “Half-spring No-top Surrey”, in The Hub, volume 16, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Hub Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 9, column 2:

It suffered a wide verandah, one side of which led directly into the stables where, in former days, horses, surreys, and buggies had been kept, and where now two cars were housed— […]

1941 September, August W[illiam] Derleth, “Beyond the Threshold”, in D. McIlwraith, editor, Weird Tales, volume 36, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Weird Tales, →OCLC; republished in Robert M[cNair] Price, editor, The Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-walker of the Icy Wastes (Chaosium Publication; no. 6021), Hayward, Calif.: Chaosium, 2006, →ISBN, page 84:

When I take you out, tonight, with me, / Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be: / You will set behind a team of snow white horses, / In the slickest gig you ever see! // Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry / When I take you out in the surrey, / When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!

1943, “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top”, in Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Richard Rodgers (music), Oklahoma!:

(historical) A light horse-drawn carriage with forward-facing seats accommodating two or four people, popular in the United States; a motorized carriage of similar design.


hackney

From Middle English hakeney, from the placename Hackney (formerly a town; now a borough of London), used for grazing horses before sale, from Old English Hacan īeġ (“Haca's Island”, literally “Hook's Island”). The Old French haquenée (“ambling mare for ladies”), Latinized in England to hakeneius, is originally from the English.

cog

hackney authors

his accumulative and hackney tongue

a. 1685, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, The Ghost of the old House of Commons to the new one appointed to meet at Oxford.:


victoria

It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:

A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.


sulky

See sulk.
The horse-drawn vehicle is so called as it obliges the rider to be alone.

A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.


sociable

en-adj

sociable (comparative more sociable, superlative most sociable)

more sociable (comparative)
most sociable (superlative)

From Middle French sociable, from Latin sociābilis.

He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.

Society is no comfort to one not sociable.

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

(of a person) Tending to socialize or be social.

тавары́скі

tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial

a sociable party

Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.


sociable

(historical) A four-wheeled open carriage with seats facing each other.

A bicycle or tricycle for two persons side by side.


jingle

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/

The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.


chaise

Unadapted borrowing from French chaise. Doublet of cathedra and chair.

It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.

1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 20:


post chaise

She had lately remitted the trespass of a stage-coachman, who had overturned her post-chaise into a ditch;

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IX, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI:

(historical) An enclosed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels, used to transport mail and passengers.

postivaunu

a horse-drawn carriage, closed and with four-wheels


gharry

Borrowed from Hindi गाड़ी (gāṛī) / Urdu گاڑی (gāṛī, “wheeled cart, carriage; car, truck, bus”), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀕𑀟𑁆𑀟 (gaḍḍa), 𑀕𑀟𑁆𑀟𑀻 (gaḍḍī), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀕𑀸𑀟𑁆𑀟- (*gāḍḍa-).

bor

(South Africa, military, slang) A jeep or small truck for conveying troops.


droshky

Borrowed from Russian дро́жки (dróžki), plural diminutive of дро́ги (drógi, “wagon, hearse”), plural of дрога́ (drogá, “centre pole of a carriage”).

Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

Was Tchitcherine there at all? sitting back in the dingy room while the lift cables slapped and creaked through the walls, and down in the street, rarely enough to matter, a droshky rattled whip-snapping over these black old cobbles?

1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

An open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia.


voiture

Borrowed from French voiture, from Latin vectūra. Doublet of vecture and vettura.

The voiture proceeded ſlowly with my Chevalier; […]

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 414:

Having consulted with my friends, about the safest method of travelling through Flanders, I was persuaded to take places in the public Voiture […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 88, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

When the voiture stopped in the village, there seemed to be a nonplusation, to coin a word for the nonce, between my friend and his sisters.

1834, Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log, volume 1, page 33:

As in a stupor, forging headlong forward she was overtaken in the vicinity of Valopolis by the evening voiture of Madame Mimosa, the lady's monogram, "Kiki," wreathed in true-love-knots, emblazoning triply the doors and rear.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 101

A carriage; a vehicle, now chiefly in French contexts.


hansom

I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll's house.

1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

"Yes, if you have nothing better to do." A minute later we were both in a hansom, driving furiously for the Brixton Road.

1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, page 38:

“There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]”

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

The ghost of Selby stirred in him. His thoughts slipped back to the day when he had stolen from his well-appointed office to a waiting hansom—there had still been a good many hansoms in those days—and driven quickly to the docks.

1931, Francis Beeding, “6/4”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:

tweewielig rijtuig met koetsier achterop


Hansom cab

(historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, once used as a vehicle for hire.


brougham

Named from Henry Peter, Lord Brougham (1778–1868), who either invented or popularized the vehicle.

“Yes,” he continued, glancing out of the window. “A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties.”

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 12:

Mr. H. R. Pope writes that in 1879 his father bought a new brougham in London, and the vehicle was taken to Victoria Station for conveyance to Brighton by passenger train. It so happened that the carriage truck was attached to the train by which Mr. Pope and his father were returning to Sussex, and the stationmaster allowed them to make the journey in the brougham.

1951 November, “By Train in a Brougham”, in Railway Magazine, page 778:

A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839. It had an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers.

An automobile, a sedan without a roof over the driver's seat.


coupé

en-noun

coupé (countable and uncountable, plural coupés)

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé (an elliptical form of carosse coupé (“cut carriage”)), the past participle of couper (“to cut”).

(historical) The front compartment of a railway carriage.


barouche

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.

“What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160:

[A]s the state barouche, with the greys and coachman in silver wig, and solemn footmen, drew up at the old churchyard-gate, there was such a crowd assembled there as had not been seen for many a long day.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

[…] all the other children got up behind the barouche and fell off, and we saw them, with great concern, scattered over the surface of Thavies Inn as we rolled out of its precincts.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 5, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

Day was drooping on a fine evening in March as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open highway.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 3

"Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the ' 80s."

1969, Anita Leslie, Lady Randolph Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 288:

A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.


clarence

Named after Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, later to become William IV of the United Kingdom.

A kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.


equipage

equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)

From Middle French equippage, from equipper. The "carriage" sense may be influenced by Latin equus (“horse”).

At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.

1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 199:

For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to England.”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 306–307:

Miserable and desponding he returned to his home; while Oriana, in again taking leave of her family, was borne back in her aunt's equipage to the splendours of the Park.

1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 302:

The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.

Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour, etc.


Gladstone

Any of places of the same name.
A city in Clackamas County, Oregon.

Clackamas County
Clackamas County#English


blucher

Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.

He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 13:


runabout

The door being open, Stranleigh walked in unannounced. A two-seated runabout[…]stood by the window, where it could be viewed by passers-by. Further down the room rested a chassis, […]

1913, Robert Barr, chapter 2, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

Any of several small vehicles, especially a small motor car for use on short journeys.


carryall

(US) Any of several types of automobile, usually a station wagon or van built on a truck chassis.


curricle

So the Curricles in Wales: sc. the old British boates made of Osiers, like a basket, and covered wʰ leather.

1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 85:


chay

(archaic, colloquial) A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).


four-in-hand

He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.

2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 293:

(chiefly US) A slip knot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie.


fiacre

Borrowed from French fiacre. From Hôtel de Saint Fiacre, a tavern in Paris operating a horse-carriage service from the 1640s, itself named after the Irish Saint Fiacre (c. 600–670 CE), perhaps from Irish fiach (“raven”).

On the road to Choissi, a fiacre, or hackney-coach, stopped, and out came five or six men, armed with musquets, who took post, each behind a separate tree.

1766, T[obias] Smollett, Travels through France and Italy. […], volume I, London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, page 94:

Poor Jim, with his arms folded and his little legs out in the open fiacre, drank in the sparkling Paris noon and carried his eyes from one side of their vista to the other.

The boy who might have fetched us a fiacre was now doing something else, so we had to go back to the station, and there we found only one, which was falling to pieces.

1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 633:

(historical) A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.


vettura

Borrowed from Italian vettura, from Latin vectūra (“conveyance”). Doublet of vecture and voiture.

(historical) A type of four-wheeled carriage, especially one let for hire


ekka

He said that he was ‘going to shoot big game’, and left at half-past ten o'clock in an ekka.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Thrown Away”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 19:

Throughout India the ekka is the ordinary vehicle in which the natives travel, and until recent times was the only one available to Europeans.

2007, J.A. Hammerton, Peoples of All Nations: Their Life Today and Story of Their Past (in 14 Volumes), page 2779:

(India) A small vehicle used in India, pulled by a single horse.


calèche

Borrowed from French calèche, from Slavic diminutive of ‘wheel’ (compare Russian коляска (koljaska), Polish kolasa).

Francesca promised, and the Queen advancing towards the calèche, hastily followed her. The carriage drove off; though not till Anne had given Voiture a most gracious smile, and bid him remember the verses.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 251:

He laughed merrily, showing his compact row of teeth, and drawing his cap over the bald patch, went out and got into the calèche.

1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 179)

All that she knew--and this was comforting--was that soon they would all be starting for home: not in a crowded, jostling old coche, but in a calèche. What a wonderful man Bibi was: so grand and powerful and rich, that he had a calèche of his own and could come and go as he pleased.

A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.


cariole

(Canada, historical) A sleigh drawn by horses, with seats for a driver and possibly passengers.

(Canada, historical) A toboggan drawn by dogs, with a passenger or cargo compartment enclosed by skins or fabric, and a small platform at the rear.


tilbury

→ French: tilbury

→ Portuguese: tílburi

From Tilbury (“surname of the inventor”).

(slang, obsolete) Sixpence (formerly the fare from Gravesend to Tilbury Fort).


hackney carriage

hackney carriage (plural hackney carriages)

It is clear the Tory party is on an ideological crusade against my industry. Its interference in London’s recent private hire review shows just how far the government will go to deregulate the UK hackney carriage trade.

2016 February 9, Trevor Merralls, “Uber is no better than an old-fashioned gangmaster – so London’s cabbies are striking”, in The Guardian:

(British, formal) Synonym of black cab, an officially licensed taxi, a motorized vehicle for public hire.


patache

Borrowed from Spanish patache, of uncertain origin. The carriage sense is after French.

A horse-drawn carriage with two wheels used in France.


stanhope

From Stanhope (“a surname”). Named after Captain Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope, for whom it was first built.

Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.


tarantass

Three kinds of conveyances are available: the telega, or cart without springs, which has to be changed at every station, and for which a charge of about 8d. is made at every stage; the kibitka, or cart (in winter a sledge) with a hood; and the tarantas, a kind of carriage on wooden springs, which admits of the traveller lying down full length, and which can be made very comfortable at night.

1868, “Route 25: London to Pekin […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 329:

From Samarkand, using that peculiarly Russian means of transport, the springless, horse-drawn tarantass, Curzon reached Tashkent by the post road in thirty uncomfortable hours.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 396:

A low horse-drawn carriage without springs used in Russia, capable of having its wheels replaced with runners during the winter.

таранта́с

a low horse-drawn carriage without springs used in Russia


brisky

head

brisky (plural form uncertain: briskys or briskies)

uncertain: briskys (plural)
briskies (plural)

Och! and wouldn't it be a blessed thing for your spirrits if ye cud lay your two peepers jist, upon Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, when he is all riddy drissed for the hopperer, or stipping into the Brisky for the drive into the Hyde Park.

c. 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling:

Well, the nex day came: at 12 the carridge-and-four was waiting at the ambasdor's doar; and Miss Griffin and the faithfle Kicksey were punctial to the apintment.
I don't wish to digscribe the marridge seminary—how the embasy chapling jined the hands of this loving young couple—how one of the embasy footmin was called in to witness the marridge—how Miss wep and fainted as usial—and how Deuceace carried her, fainting, to the brisky, and drove off to Fontingblo.

1841, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 17, in Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush:

The captain called for his carriage. . . . [T]he platterer was glad that Rossi's choice of transport was a brisky, and not a smaller vehicle. . . . Two horses gave it power and its light body, made largely of woven wicker, gave it roominess and speed.

2010, Robin Adair, Death and the Running Patterer, Penguin, online edition

(rare, probably obsolete, possibly nonstandard) A britchka, a type of horse-drawn carriage.


britchka

From Russian бричка (brička), or its source, Polish bryczka, diminutive form of bryka (“carriage”), probably ultimately from Italian biroccio.

[H]e cracked his whip and the britchka leapt forward with increased speed over the cobblestones.

1842, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (trans. C. J. Hogarth), chapter 2, in Dead Souls:

The appearance of our caravan was curious and grotesque. Our britchka was drawn by three camels, taken in tow by a man on foot.

1847, Xavier Hommaire De Hell, chapter 22, in Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c:

A britzka came up at this moment as the three men were speaking.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 52, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

At length, Vassili got up and covered over the britchka, the coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak and lifted his cap to make the sign of the cross at each successive thunderclap, and the horses pricked up their ears and snorted.

1854, Leo Tolstoy (trans. C. J. Hogarth), Boyhood, ch. 2 – The Thunderstorm

The conveyance stopped, a straw-coloured britshka, the summer conveyance of Count Chojnicki.

2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 158:

(now chiefly historical) A type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering.


herdic

Named after Peter Herdic of Pennsylvania, the inventor.

A low-hung horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels, a back entrance, and side seats.


dennet

(dated) A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig.


rockaway

Probably from Rockaway Beach, where they were used. From the Unami lekawe (“sandy place”) or a Munsee cognate of that word.

(dated, uncommon) A light, low, four-wheeled carriage with standing top, open at the sides, but with waterproof curtains for bad weather.

(dated, uncommon) A similar but heavier carriage, enclosed except at the front, and with a door at each side.


tim-whiskey

en-noun

tim-whiskey (plural tim-whiskeys or tim-whiskies)

tim-whiskeys (plural)
tim-whiskies (plural)

1778, George Colman, Prologue to The Suicide, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 225,
With Two Act Pieces what machines agree?
Buggies, Tim-whiskies, or squeez’d Vis a-vis,
Where two sit face to face, and knee to knee.

It was a two-wheeled vehicle, which claimed none of the modern appellations of tilbury, tandem, dennet, or the like; but aspired only to the humble name of that almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey; or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey.

1824, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in Saint Ronan's Well, volume 2, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 6:

1837, Robert Southey, The Doctor, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, Volume 4, Interchapter 14, p. 43,
It is not like the difference between a Baptist and an Anabaptist, which Sir John Danvers said, is much the same as that between a Whiskey and a Tim-Whiskey, that is to say no difference at all.

(historical) Synonym of whiskey, a kind of light carriage drawn by one horse.


berlin

From the name of the German capital city Berlin, where it was invented in the 17th century.

I was then giving some instructions about the forwarding my trunk, and was just going to mount my new purchase in the yard of the inn; when a berlin, apparently belonging to a foreigner of distinction, attended by three French or Swiss servants, drove to the door […].

1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 261:

I passed her in his berlin the other day, and just caught a glimpse of very pretty features, with an interesting and sad expression. I believe that she is his wife, because I always believe for the best.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith. Courtiers.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 263:

A four-wheeled carriage with a separate sheltered seat behind the body.


governess-cart

[…] Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share.

1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

(historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs; a trap.


karozzin

karozzin (plural karozzins or karozzini)

Borrowed from Maltese karozzin, karrozzin, from Italian carrozza (“horse-drawn or railroad carriage”), from carro (“means of transport for carrying goods”) (from Latin carrus (“wagon; four-wheeled baggage cart”), or from carruca (“(obsolete) carriage; coach”) (from Latin carrūca (“carriage; coach; chariot”)).

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The horse cab (karrozzin) has not yet been driven off the street by the motor-car, and provides a pleasant mode of making short journeys; [...]

1937, Great Britain and the East, volume 49, London: Great Britain and the East, Limited, →OCLC, page 985, column 1:

Characteristic of the island is the horse-drawn karrozzin—unfortunately rapidly disappearing—but which you will still see in many places around Valletta, [...]

1963, Harold Rose, Your Guide to Malta, London: Alvin Redman, →OCLC, page 77:

The island’s small fishing boats (Luzzus) and karrozzins (horse-drawn carriages) provided a welcome change-of-pace from the flattop Shangri-La’s sailors and airmen had been riding since October.

1964, R[obert] Franklin Brown, Jr., USS Shangri-La, Attack Carrier, Boston, Mass.: Burdette, →OCLC, page 205, column 1:

The Maltese horse-drawn cab – the karozzin – was introduced in 1856 and is still a familiar sight in Valletta.

1969, Bryan Balls, Traveller’s Guide to Malta: A Concise Guide to the Mediterranean Islands of Malta, Gozo, and Comino, Valletta, Malta: Thornton Cox, →OCLC, page 15:

Those wishing to go at a gentler pace can hire a karrozin for short sight-seeing trips or take a dghaisa across the bays and harbours.

1969, Charles Owen, The Maltese Islands, New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: Frederick A. Praeger, →OCLC, page 150:

Horse carriages, so popular in years gone by, reappeared in surprising number, including dozens of those graceful, elegantly appointed victorias (called karrozins) that had formerly served as Malta's taxis.

1984, Charles A[lbert] Jellison, Besieged: The World War II Ordeal of Malta, 1940–1942, Hanover, N.H.: Published for the University of New Hampshire by University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 78:

When Valletta's breathless heat became intolerable, the family would load all their furniture onto carts and, with their two maids, climb into two horse-drawn karozzin.

2000, Aline P’nina Tayar, “A View from the Balcony”, in How Shall We Sing?: A Mediterranean Journey Through a Jewish Family, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia, →ISBN, page 50:

Fürst missed the commercial foresight to paint more of it and less of the dazzling sheen of waves. With ghonnellas, dgħajsas and karrozzini, his paintings would today fetch four or five figure prices at auction.

2003, Giovanni Bonello, Histories of Malta, volumes 4 (Convictions and Conjectures), Valletta, Malta: Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, →ISBN, page 224, column 2:

In the face of stiff competition from the trams, the karozzini or gharries go on strike and assemble on the glacis outside Portes Des Bombes.

2004, Joseph Binnici, Michael Cassar, A Chronicle of Twentieth Century Malta, Malta: Book Distributors Limited, →ISBN, page 28:

On Friday 13 May at 2.30pm, at the entrance to Mdina, a karozzin driver had the cheek to ask four young Spanish tourists, presumably here for a few hours on a cruise, Lm30 for a 20 to 30 minute panoramic tour of the Silent City.

2005 May 15, “One big joke”, in The Malta Independent, St. Julian’s, Malta: Standard Publications, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-29:

For our riding lessons we went by Carrozzi, (horse-drawn Garry), always with the same driver Carlo, who took us cross country at about six in the morning, to the Marsa Polo Club [...]

2007, Christian Lamb, “The Secrets of Radar and Plotting”, in Liz Cowley, Auriol Griffith-Jones, editors, I Only Joined for the Hat: Redoubtable Wrens at War: Their Trials Tribulations and Triumphs, London: Bene Factum Publishing, →ISBN, page 44:

Shortly after dawn, a steady stream of people made its way on foot, in flat cars, or in karrozini (cabs) to the Cathedral Church at Mdina. The ceremony took place in a wartime setting with the cathedral stripped of many of its treasures.

2012, Dennis A. Castillo, “The Summer of 1942”, in The Santa Marija Convoy: Faith and Endurance in Wartime Malta, 1940–1942, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 189:

After passing the houses a few minutes ago I came on alone up the road towards a line of trees and I noticed a Maltese horse-drawn cab, called a carozzi or garry.

2013, Denis Barnham, “Roof Away”, in Malta Spitfire Pilot: Ten Weeks of Terror April–June 1942, London: Grub Street Publishing, →ISBN:

He listened to the bells of horse-drawn karozzins. His life was temporarily becalmed and there was nothing he could do but wait for the time it would resume.

2019, Tim Pears, chapter 1, in The Redeemed (The West Country Trilogy; 3), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (The Battle 1916):

(Malta, road transport) A type of traditional carriage pulled by a horse or pair of horses.


ginny-carriage

(archaic) A small strong carriage for conveying materials on a railway.


palkigari

From Hindi पालकी गाड़ी (pālkī gāṛī), from पालकी (pālkī, “palanquin, litter, sedan chair”) + गाड़ी (gāṛī, “cart, carriage, truck, car”), q.v.

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Hindi पालकी गाड़ी (pālkī gāṛī)

Once, during the last campaign we were in a great strait, to get up to Lahore from Allahabad, and, on applying one afternoon at the Post Office for a horsed palkee-garee we were informed, "that Major A. had engaged it with Captain B."—"Then, early to-morrow morning, could we have it?"—"No, it would not be back."—"Then, the following day?"—"No, two other officers had hired it for that day."—"Well, then, when ever can we have it," we rather angrily asked—"Oh!" said the dear Baboo, "on Saturday next" (that day being Wednesday) "if a lady and gentleman, at Mr. Berrill's hotel, do not take it..." Even in these "piping times of peace," we hear of people having to wait two or three days to get a public garee, along the main road of India.

1850 March, "Journeys in India", The Benares Magazine, Vol. III, No. III, p. 231

Palkigari, a vehicle on carriage springs, and four wheels, all the same size; with a spare cushion inside, which turns into a bed. It is pushed and dragged by men.

1884, "A Glossary of Indian Words and Expressions", Bradshaw's Through Route Overland Guide to India..., p. 406

They doubted whether good work would be done on tour by an elderly deputy collector, more especially as the invariable means of locomotion in those days was the palkigari.

1917 December 10, Samuel Perry O'Donnell, Resolution No. 3219/III–331, §1

... a palkigari is so constructed that people inside cannot see what is going outside. These cumbersome carriages are no more in use in Bihar these days. They have been displaced by a cheaper and degrading mode of transport of rickshaws ...

1994, Shankar Dayal Singh, Gandhi's First Step: Champaran Movement, p. 205

(India) A carriage or cart considered similar-looking to a palanquin, particularly (historical) those instituted for regular service between major towns in British India in the 1840s.