Reverse Dictionary: CARRIAGE

ADJECTIVES
► CURRICULAR pert. to carriages → 1798
► VECTARIOUS belonging to a carriage → 1656

NOUNS
► BABYHUT a badly designed covered carriage  → 1772 US
► BANGY a buggy without any top → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BASKET BUGGY a horse-drawn vehicle with a wicker body → 1863 Amer. dial.
► BASKET CARRIAGE a horse-drawn vehicle with a wicker body → 1863 Amer. dial.
► BASKET PHAETON a horse-drawn vehicle with a wicker body → 1863 Amer. dial.
► BASKET WAGON a horse-drawn vehicle with a wicker body → 1863 Amer. dial.
► BRACKY WAGON a horse-drawn carriage → 1969 Amer. dial.
► BUTTER FLAP a light carriage or trap → M19 rhyming sl.
► CALASH a light carriage with low wheels, having a removable folding hood or top; in Canada: a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, usually without a cover, with a seat for the driver on the splashboard → 1666
► CAR a carriage, chariot, cart, wagon, etc. → 1382
► CASK a fashionable name for a brougham or other private carriage → 1859 sl.
► CURRICLE a light two-wheeled carriage, usually drawn by two horses abreast → 1752
► DASH-BOARD the splash-board of a carriage → 1876 Eng. dial.
► DOUBLE CHAIR a light pleasure carriage having two seats → 1795 obs.
► HACK a hackney carriage → 1704
► HIPPOMOBILE a word used in the early days of motor vehicles for a horse-drawn vehicle → 1906
► HITCH a horse and carriage → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► IMPERIAL the roof or top of a carriage; a case or trunk for luggage, fitted on, or adapted for, the roof of a carriage → 1794
► JARVEY a hackney carriage → 1823 sl.
► JUMBLE a ride in a carriage, with reference to the shaking experienced → 1674 colloq.
► MAB a cab (a carriage) → 1822 rhyming sl.
► MANUMOTOR a carriage propelled by mechanism worked by hand → 1844
► MONKEY BOARD a footboard at the back of a horse-drawn carriage or a bus, for a footman or conductor to stand on → 1813 obs.
► MOT-CART a brougham or similar vehicle owned by a kept woman or well-off prostitute → M19 sl.
► MUSTARD-POT a carriage with a light yellow body → L19 Brit. sl.
► PLUM PUDDING a coach-dog (the dog with dark spots which runs after carriages) → 1851 sl.
► ROADSTER a light carriage or buggy → 1892 Amer. dial.
► TILBURY a light open two-wheeled carriage, fashionable in the first half of the 19th century → 1814
► TIMWHISKY a kind of high light carriage, seated for one or two, drawn by a single horse or by two horses driven ‘tandem’ → 1764 obs.
► WALNUT-SHELL a very light carriage → 1810 sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BILKER a person who hires a hackney carriage and slips off without paying → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CURRICLEER a person who drives a curricle → 1794 obs.
► HACK a driver of a hackney carriage → 1662 hist.
► HACK DOG the assistant to a hackney driver → 1915 Amer. sl.
► HACKIE ► HACKY a driver of a hackney carriage → 1887 US colloq.
► HACKMAN a driver of a horse-drawn hackney carriage → 1796 Amer.
► HACKNEY COACHMAN the driver of a hackney coach (a four-wheeled coach for hire, typically drawn by two horses, and with seating for six passengers) → 1623 hist.
► HACKNEY MAN a man who keeps a hackney carriage or hackney horses for hire → 1307 hist.
► HANSOM CAB-DRIVER the driver of a hansom cab (a low-hung two-wheeled cabriolet holding two persons inside, the driver being mounted on a dickey or elevated seat behind, and the reins going over the roof) → a1860
► HANSOM-CABMAN the driver of a hansom cab → 1849
► HANSOMEER the driver of a hansom cab → 1893
► HAWK a hack driver or cab driver who plies for trade at night → 1884 US sl.
► HELL-DRIVER a coachman → 1699 sl., obs.
► JACK-BOY a person who rides one of a carriage’s leading horses rather than riding on the box → c1810 sl.
► JARVEY a hackney coachman → 1819 sl.
► JARVIS a hackney coachman → 1811 sl.
► JEHU a coachman; a driver → 1660 sl.

VERBS
► FILL to pull or draw a carriage → 1883 Amer. dial.
► HACK to ride in a hackney coach → 1879 Amer. sl.
► HACKNEY to ride in a hackney carriage → 1684 obs.
► LEAD to guide or drive a carriage → 1377 obs.
► ONLIGHT to dismount from a horse or carriage → 1825 Eng. dial.