Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light, open, horse-drawn carriage with one seat and two or four wheels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light two-wheeled carriage without a top.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
gig ,buggy or lightphaeton , typically with a high seat and closed back.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Flasher, Esquire, was at Brixton, Surrey; the horse and stanhope of
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The vehicle was not exactly a gig, neither was it a stanhope.
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When the carriages met again, he stood up in his stanhope; he raised his hand ready to doff his hat; he looked with all his eyes.
Vanity Fair 2006
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We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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The stanhope is all to atoms, and the farmer claims compensation for the gate.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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Away she went, harness, shafts, and all, leaving the stanhope in the ditch, and sending Jack and me flying, like experimental fifty-sixes in the marshes at Woolwich, halfway across the meadow.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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He hurried me into the stanhope, gave the rein to his active grey mare, and making a detour towards Kingston, we soon left the crowd behind us.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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But let us get on to the next inn, and send people after the stanhope and the mare.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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One day in the ring, Rawdons stanhope came in sight; Rebecca was seated by him.
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When the carriages met again, he stood up in his stanhope; he raised his hand ready to doff his hat; he looked with all his eyes.
reesetee commented on the word stanhope
A light phaeton, usually with a high seat and closed back, named after Captain Hon. Henry FitzRoy Stanhope (ca. 1754-1828), son of William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington.
October 22, 2008