Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A carriage used for moving heavy ordnance: a sling-cart.
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Examples
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But he did not call for his horse or his devil-carriage, and scour the land as was his custom.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He had no camp, and when his horse was weary he rode upon a devil-carriage.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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A shadow of a hawk upon the fields was not more without noise than the devil-carriage of Yunkum Sahib.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He had come by night in the devil-carriage that is noiseless as a ghoul, and moving among us asleep, had taken away both the guns and the book!
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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