carriage

noun13

1. •
   a wheeled vehicle for people that horses pull, common before there were cars

   • The carriage ride was very romantic.
2. •
   A means of conveyance.
3. •
   (US, New-England) A shopping cart.
4. •
   (UK) A stroller; a baby carriage.
5. •
   A gun carriage.
6. •
   (UK) Ellipsis of railway carriage (“a passenger railroad car, or any railroad car”).
7. •
   The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head.

   • The runner has a very low arm carriage.
8. •
   A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.

   • a tall woman with a beautiful upright carriage.
9. •
   The part of a typewriter supporting the paper, the part of a machine tool such as a lathe that guides the bit as it cuts or otherwise manipulates the workpiece.
10. •
    The act of conveying; carrying.

    • The remainder of the men were employed in unbarreling our Pork and stringing it on poles for convenience of carriage, and carrying our Batteaux from the river to the pond. — 1867
11. •
    The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and Carriage Paid To).
12. •
    (no longer used) One's behavior, or way of conducting oneself towards others.

    • Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...]. — 1819
13. •
    (no longer used) That which is carried, baggage.

    • And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren. — 1611