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jaunting-car|ˈdʒɔːntɪŋkɑː(r), ˈdʒɑːnt-|
[f. jaunting vbl. n. (see jaunt v.) + car.]
A light, two-wheeled vehicle, popular in Ireland, now carrying four persons seated two on each side, either back to back (outside jaunting-car) or facing each other (inside jaunting-car), with a seat in front for the driver. Formerly made for a larger number of passengers: see quot. 1801.
1801Felton Carriages (ed. 2) II. App. 5 There has been introduced some of a foreign description, called German Waggons, and Jaunting Carrs. Ibid. 6 The Jaunting Carr is a one horse carriage..so contrived as to carry many passengers; intended for gentlemen to go a pleasuring with their families, they driving themselves..The body is made to project over the wheels, is of a round form, and capacious enough to hold five or six persons comfortable, besides the driver, forming, as it were, a small apartment, and will even afford a small table to stand in the middle. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXV. 771/2 There is a vehicular machine, peculiar, I believe, to Ireland called ‘an outside jaunting-car!’ 1842S. Lover Handy Andy i, He..drove out the nurse and children on the jaunting-car. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 303 In general there was no way of travelling except by the old jaunting-car. 1894Hall Caine Manxman 351 A company of jolly fellows in a jaunting-car. |