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ˈwheel-ˌcarriage
1. Carriage (carriage 1) or conveyance by wheeled vehicles.
1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 30 Ashes or Soot..are seldom used, because they generally lie too distant for Wheel Carriage from London. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 247 Where the country proves clay, marl, or rich or spungy soil,..and yet much wheel-carriage necessary, and no turnpike.
2. A carriage (carriage 23) moving on wheels, a wheeled vehicle; also as a part of a machine (carriage 29).
1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 319 Its fore-part lying on the Stock of the Wheel-Carriage as the Fallow⁓plough does. 1756Washington Lett. Writ. 1889 I. 369 The only gap of the Alleghany at present made passable for wheel-carriages. 1845G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. IV. 123 The wheel-carriage on which the roller rests is then wheeled onward. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 304 The roads..that led from town to town were barely passable to wheel⁓carriages. |