carriage

noun

• 1a means of conveyance, in particular:
• British any of the separate sections of a train that carry passengers:the first-class carriages
• a four-wheeled passenger vehicle pulled by two or more horses:a horse-drawn carriage
• a wheeled support for moving a heavy object such as a gun: a US army howitzer and carriage

• 2 [mass noun] British the conveying of goods or passengers from one place to another:the carriage of bikes on public transport

• 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

• 5 [mass noun] the harbouring of a potentially disease-causing organism by a person or animal that does not contract the disease.