Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large receptacle, such as a bag, basket, or pocketbook, used to carry things from one place to another.
- noun A closed automobile with two lengthwise seats facing each other.
- noun A covered one-horse carriage with two seats.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light, covered, four-wheeled family carriage, with two seats, drawn by one horse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun North America A large
bag ; aholdall - noun North America, dated A light, covered
carriage drawn by a single horse - noun US Any of several types of
automobile
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a capacious bag or basket
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Almost every resident in the country has a carriage they call a carryall, which name I suspect to be a corruption of the cariole so often mentioned in the pretty Canadian story of Emily Montagu.
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Rumbling behind the carryall was the farm wagon containing the trunks, and in less than the half-hour stipulated by Sandy, Oak Farm was reached.
The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays Laura Lee Hope
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In the carryall were the farmer and his two charming daughters, and, Mrs. Stanhope, who was his sister-in-law, and her daughter Dora.
The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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à banc is a small, one-horse carriage, which looks upon the outside very much like what is called a carryall in America, only it is much narrower.
Rollo in Switzerland Jacob Abbott 1841
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We met many other mules, much more exemplary, in teams of two, three, and four, covered with bells and drawing every kind of carryall and stage and omnibus.
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It was of the "carryall" variety, except that it had but a single narrow seat.
Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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He had been thrown, sprawling, into the iron-railed "carryall" platform at the back of the buckboard, and lay on the nut-studded slats, where he was jolted and bumped about like the proverbial pea on a drum.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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Alone, there was insufficient room for the suffering man in the limited space of the "carryall," but beside him sat, or rather crouched, a burly Breed, ready at a moment's notice to quash any attempt at escape on the part of the wretched money-lender.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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We met many other mules, much more exemplary, in teams of two, three, and four, covered with bells and drawing every kind of carryall and stage and omnibus.
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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They were also called 'carryall's' and 'suburbans' (a name Plymouth used on their wagons until the late 1970's).
InstaPunk 2009
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