water carriage
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]water carriage (plural water carriages)
- Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.
- (obsolete) A vessel or boat.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:
- If one considers that paſſage, it seems possible to go generally by Water-carriage from China to Spain without entring into the Ocean
References
[edit]- “water carriage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.