carriage

noun

• 1a means of conveyance, in particular.
• a four-wheeled passenger vehicle pulled by two or more horses:a horse-drawn carriage
• a baby carriage.
• a shopping cart.
• a wheeled support for moving a heavy object such as a gun.
• British a passenger car of a train:the first-class carriages

• 2the transporting of items or merchandise from one place to another.

• 3a moving part of a machine that carries other parts into the required position:a typewriter carriage

• 4 [in singular] a person’s bearing or deportment:her carriage was graceful, her movements quick and deft

• 5the harboring of a potentially disease-causing organism by a person or animal that does not contract the disease.