surrey

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  1. noun A four-wheeled horse-drawn pleasure carriage having two or four seats.

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  • De car'iage was called a surrey den Dar was 'bout four or five hunderd acres in our plantation. —  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
  • Sometimes, during a winter cold-snap, when a ride in a surrey is not a pleasant thing to contemplate, when residents of old mansions have shut themselves into a room or two heated by grate fires, then the fly seems to have disappeared, but let the cold abate a little and out he comes again like some rogue who, after brief and spurious penance, resumes the evil of his ways The stranger going to a humble Charleston house will find on the gate a coiled spring at the end of which hangs a bell. —  American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
  • But why had Randy thanked Heaven that the other man was not the Major III The Waterman motor passed the surrey, and Dalton, straining his eyes for a glimpse of the pretty girl, was rewarded only by a view of Randy on the front seat with his back turned on the world, while he talked with someone hidden by the curtains Perhaps the fact that she was hidden by the curtains kept Dalton's thoughts upon her. —  The Trumpeter Swan
  • Gordon signed quickly to Kincaid and drew back carefully behind the bole of the opposite poplar It was the Warwick Lodge surrey, and it stopped at the gate. —  The Quickening
  • I'd just like to sail into that lady Nat did not reply--the major was now in the surrey, and the little horse started off at a lively trot Numbers of cutters and sleighs passed them--every one seemed anxious to make sure of the first sleigh-ride One particularly handsome rig was just approaching Whew!" —  Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays
 

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  1. Short for Surrey cart, after Surrey, a county of southeast England.
 

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