Carriage: Definition and part of speech

Carriage

n. The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.
n. That which is carried; burden; baggage.
n. The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
n. The price or expense of carrying.
n. That which carries of conveys,
n. A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
n. A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
n. A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
n. A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
n. The manner of carrying one’s self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
n. The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.

n. A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.
n. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.