Word Meanings - GLADSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.

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• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• WHEELED
  Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• PLEASURER
  A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
• WHEELWORK
  A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
• WHEELING
  1. The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle. 2. The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling. 3. Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.
• PLEASURELESS
  Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.
• WHEELBAND
  The tire of a wheel.
• INSIDE
  1. Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration. Kissing with inside lip. Shak. 2. Adapted to the interior. Inside callipers , callipers for measuring
• PLEASURE
  1. The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to Ant: pain,
• FOOTMAN
  A moth of the family Lithosidæ; -- so called from its livery- like colors. (more info) 1. A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier. 2. A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table,
• WHEELER
  A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler. 5. A worker on sewed muslin. (more info) 1. One who wheels, or turns. 2. A maker of wheels; a wheelwright. 3.
• FOOTMANSHIP
  Art or skill of a footman.
• PLEASUREFUL
  Affording pleasure.
• CALASH
  1. A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage. The baroness in
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• PELTON WHEEL
  A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• RECARRIAGE
  Act of carrying back.
• ARTILLERY WHEEL
  A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.
• FUDGE WHEEL
  A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
• WHEEL
  A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. The burden or refrain of a song. Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is supposed from the context in the few cases where the
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• WATER WHEEL
  1. Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an
• COUNT-WHEEL
  The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.
• MISCARRIAGEABLE
  Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
• SIDE-WHEEL
  Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• SPLIT WHEEL
  = Split pulley.